Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] 2500 ISO
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Nov 6 19:37:00 2006
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Jayanand

I absolutely couldn't agree with you more about these new M8's. If 
someone could show me a real advantage to $5000 cameras maybe, but holy 
cow that's a lot of Tri-X. I've broken a few things over the years and 
tried to take it like a man. Break my M8 and I'd cry all the was to the 
pharmacist. He sure as hell better have my Valium ready.and waiting. >:o

Walt


Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> Tina,
> Unlikely that I would want to, at that price. I would buy a Nikon 
> D80/D200 or an equivalent Canon at one fifth the price. maybe even a 
> Panasonic or Sony with a 10MP chip. I would forgo 2500 ASA, and 
> shooting at night without a tripod and save US$4000. So be it. This is 
> my opinion. Yours might be different and I respect that.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> At 11:04 PM 11/5/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>> I know people will say 'rangefinder' or 'Leica' but the bang for the 
>>> buck is just not there as a photographic tool, IMHO. On the other 
>>> hand, it qualifies extremely well as an inexpensive piece of 
>>> handmade jewellery.....
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>
>>
>>
>> How can you say this when you haven't even used one?  Mine certainly 
>> won't be jewelery.  I'll use it to make my living, along with my 
>> SLRs.  Rangefinders are better for some uses and the M8 is a 
>> rangefinder.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA
>> http://www.tinamanley.com
>>
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