[Leica] M9 review...

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> ... by the always entertaining but controversial Ken Rockwell!  
>> Wait, I
>> meant Erwin Puts.
>>
>> Anyway, in Part V (count them, FIVE) of his M9 reviews, something
>> about dynamic range, something something that D3x > M8.2 > M9. Yes,
>> M8.2 is better than the M9 when it comes to dynamic range.
>>
>> So he said, I can't really tell, because there are like, lots of
>> charts, and fuzzy pictures of some black & white patterns.
>>
>
>
> Richard! You just put Erwin Puts.
> And Ken Rockwell in the same sentence.
> An in depth review from Erwin Puts, a recognized and published  
> optical and
> Leica expert and former old guard member of the old Lug is a very  
> welcome
> event I'm not getting the sarcasm; he has many friends here going  
> back a
> decade. This review will be "cited for a long time to come" (some  
> other
> list) . I plan on printing out all nine and carrying them with for  
> the rest
> of 2009 till I turn 59 (in January, not the 9th) reading them  
> repeatedly
> with a yellow highlighter on the subways and busses causing me no  
> doubt to
> miss my stops and having to walk back a few blocks or more.

maybe even have them lasered inside your contact lenses, so you can  
read them while you are taking

pictures,

assuming that you do...
(not you Mark)

:-)

Steve

> I have Erwin 's intensive Leica lens book and eagerly await the PDF  
> update.
> A major photographic event in itself.
> A better book changing my mode of thinking about optics I've never  
> read.
> Rockwell  is strictly an  internet maven of a technical bent capable  
> of
> putting things in an interesting perspective from time to time being
> occasionally very incisive his knowledge of Leica this week  was  
> surprising
> and seems to not come from overnight but he can almost as often  
> leave us
> bewildered.  Or worse. And is basically a Nikon guy. With Canon
> inclinations. Maybe he'll sell all his seemingly hundreds of Nikons  
> (and
> Canons) and go M9 but the smart money is not in that particular  
> direction.
> Erwin sharing those Canon diversions by the way. For Canon.
> I'm guessing with the advent of the M9  Canons Erwin's may gather  
> dust.
> Though an economic treatise might need to be written as to the  
> accumulation
> of 7 grand = Belgium and Euros.
> And after that I'd like a copy on how to do it in American USD.
>
> There may be just as much magic in getting one as using one.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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