[Leica] M9!

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

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???????

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!"  :-)

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. :-)

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 
father's Leica and mine being the same.

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