Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/22

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Subject: [Leica] Leica ownership
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:38:49 -0400
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The M9 is an amazing camera but it's not my M4.

Phil Forrest


On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:56:20 -0700
Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:

> For us "old timers" who started with the Barnack or M, there are
> certain... "pride of ownership:" the Barnack are tiny and jewel like,
> and the M is really a masterpiece of form and functions. Now with the
> digital M, especially the M9, existing Leica owners are upgrading as
> finance permits. However, there is also a large group of new digital
> M only owners who are getting the digital M because it's a status
> symbol or that "it's the best." In any case, I wonder if people still
> have that wonderment of "gee, this is a marvelous piece of
> engineering" when they are using their M9 or M8.
> 
> 



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