Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for your comment. Since posting the original email I have purchased a M9 and I am now sat at home waiting for it to arrive. Gerry Gerry Walden 023 8046 3076 > On 16 Jul 2015, at 08:36, j2m46 at hotmail.fr wrote: > > I'm very happy with my 7 year-old M8, it produces great pictures... and I > don't think I'm an idiot either ! > > > Envoy? par Outlook pour Android > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:33 PM -0700, "George Lottermoser" > <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> The smartness or dumbness of buying a Leica M8 at this date mid 2015 would >> depend solely on the price in which you are buying it. (at) >> The viability of this camera as is being expressed now on the Lug is >> surprising in that there are countless treads on how the camera which >> never >> worked soon stops working altogether. >> I would suggest that the people here on the Lug willing to part with >> theirs >> to take them up on it. If the price is super low like in a couple of >> bucks. >> And you are otherwise totally in the flush and willing to throw good money >> out the window that you'd otherwise not be spending on food, shelter or a >> camera which worked. >> >> Leica fired its CEO for suggesting that a digital Leica M was possible. >> It also said that any Leica M would be full frame. >> It then came out with its first out M. a cropped digital M. The M8. >> It kept Leica lenses selling but otherwise was one of the biggest >> disasters >> in camera history. Made the Edsal in comparison seem like a success. >> Its best to keep it as a historical footnote. > > My seven year old M8 continues to deliver beautiful digital files with all > of my M lenses; > and has been doing so for over 7 years. > > Meanwhile, you continue to throw out trash about the M8, a camera you > never shot a frame with. > > And, to the best of my knowledge, your M glass collection has never been > used to expose a digital frame. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information