[Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Richard I just love it when you talk about the price of ramen and eating it
for a month when you obviously have many tens of thousands of dollars of
photo gear; much of it never used.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 22:08:43 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8?
> 
> I wasn't saying the M9 specifically, I am referring to the statement
> regarding "Leica M." e.g. an M6 is still one of the most expensive film
> camera around but it's "only" $1000, not $7000. If I have to sell
> everything else to pay for bills, I will try to keep my M7 and the Summilux
> 35mm. That'd be one of the last things to go, even if I have to eat ramen
> for a month. It's that simple.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj
> <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Richard,
>> I do not agree - using a US$5 item to justify a US$7000 item boggles the
>> imagination, at least mine!!
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Richard Man <richard at 
>> richardmanphoto.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Come on, it's like saying to people on food stamp that they shouldn't
>> have
>>> ice cream and only spend it on "important" stuff.
>>> 
>>> What if there are joy of owning and using Leica, in additional to
>> whatever
>>> image quality benefits there may be.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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