Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/07

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Subject: [Leica] Trade in my M9?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:53:18 -0800
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I miss the "good ol' days" when people argue about the smoothness of the
brass ratchet vs. the cheap metal used in M6 etc. :-)

Or how some Leica M-film is 1 mm higher than the other models and how that
ruins the experience.

OK, no, I do not miss those days.

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
wrote:

> Did you read my 10% reply to Sue? Basically, at best, the M240 may get you
> 10% better photos. How many photos are you happy with now? Lets see it's 10
> out of 100. With the M240, you get... 11 photos.
>
> Is it worth it to sell the M9 for $4000-$4500 and gte an M240 for that
> extra photo? You shall be the judge.
>
> But there is nothing against people wanting the next best thing, so....
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Leland Deane <lmdmd at att.net> wrote:
>
>> OK, so I'm a fairly happy M9 guy (see attached) and it's done well by me
>> but M9's are doing well on the used market and I have considered trading
>> in/selling to get the M240. So....I need the honest and august opinions of
>> this great group to tell me if I'm crazy. I am all about the sensor 
>> quality
>> and do not in particular need 'live view' (have that on my Canon 5D mark
>> III) or video capabilities. For those of you with both or who have had
>> both, please give me your impressions of one vs. the other.
>> Much appreciated.
>> Recent photo of my kids attached---lightly processed in CC (view large)
>> Thanks,
>> Leland
>>
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Replies: Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Trade in my M9? (RICHARD MAN))
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