[LRflex] Re: All about M9!!!
- From: Otto Rath <orath2001@xxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:31:28 -0700 (PDT)
Hello Dr. Ted,
Your observations cut through all the speculative stuff about the M9.
I could not afford this "Wunderkind" anyway - no discretionary income provided
in Canada Old Age Pension.
Let's hope, the new Leitz baby will be healthy, but even one with Down's
syndrom can be loved,eh?
greetings, OTTO
--- On Sat, 9/5/09, Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: All about M9!!!
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Received: Saturday, September 5, 2009, 7:49 PM
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> Quite frankly all this transmission over the M9 really
> means diddly squat
> unless you are going to "BUY ONE!" I have no idea
> how many posts I've deleted
> about it as the most important aspect is???????? "How
> much will it cost and how
> soon will it actually be available for my
> hands?" And is it so
> fantastically better than the M8 with the same lens
> attached?????? Or will it be
> merely an upgraded version of the M8???????
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> Besides I pretty well have my M8 attached to my hand
> and it's serving me
> quite well with images that viewers when they see the
> prints keep telling me...
> "WOW!!!! those old time Leica's sure make great
> pictures!" :-)
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> Yep had a little old lady tell me something like that
> a couple of days
> ago as she remembered a Leica being in her family
> years ago and her father
> always said it was the best camera in the world. And seeing
> mine she still
> believed him because here was one that was still working
> after all these years.
> :-)
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> So there you go eh?
> Am I going to tell this sweet super senior citizen
> lady it was a modern day
> $5000 digital camera her father wouldn't believe was a
> camera if he were still
> alive? Nope! I just let her go on believing it was
> just like her dad's! She
> had such a nice smile when she was telling the story of her
> fathers Leica and
> mine being the same.
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> M9? I think it's more fun until it arrives out of
> the womb rather than all
> this trade secret stuff hour after hour that takes away the
> birthing excitement
> much like knowing what kind of child you are about to have
> before it arrives
> into the world.
> They can both be beautiful surprises! :-)
> ted
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