[Leica] M8 in stock in the Netherlands

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 8:20 PM +0100 11/14/06, Michiel Fokkema wrote:
>Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>Just got an e-mail from Kamera Express 
>>(www.kamera-express.nl) that  the M8 is in 
>>stock. Price is ?4200, which is virtually the 
>>same as in  the US (once you take into account 
>>that US prices as displayed  exclude sales tax, 
>>whereas the prices here include it).
>>
>>Just to tempt my fellow BENELUGgers ;-)
>>
>
>Too expensive for me.
>I'll wait for the M9, a film camera with the 
>nice and fast shutter of the M8/R9, a zoom 
>finder to accommodate lenses from 21 to 135mm 
>and a built in winder. Don't say it can't be 
>done. Lot's of things that couldn't be done a 
>year ago are real now, like the M8.
>
>Anyhow, I got a used 20D for a bargain price. 
>The 24 Elmarit on it makes a nice 38. Very close 
>to my favourite 40. I now basicly have a P&S 
>with manual focus. But I love it.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Michiel Fokkema

I gotta jump in here. I've been accused directly 
(a couple of times) and indirectly of saying that 
the M8 couldn't be done, and yet HERE IT IS. This 
doesn't really apply to your post, Michiel.

I never said the M8 couldn't be done.

I said that a full frame sensor digital M 
couldn't be done with the technology evident last 
year.

That still holds.

New technology WILL appear; a full frame digital 
M WILL be possible as will lots of other things.

An M9 similar to the one above might be possible. 
I'm not particularly interested, but something of 
that type could be done.

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