PhotoMaximum wrote:
I have discussed this with a Leica owning buddy of mine. He assures me that he plans on shooting with the M9 \"for years\"...
Yeah right... and two years later the M10 comes out with a nice modified CMOS sensor that does 3-5fps, instant recording, clean ISO12800, 50MP (or whatever) and live view that allows you to use any lens, close focus to macro levels and preview dof, and before you know it you feel like you\'re skiing on last year\'s snow again.
Or worse, CV/Zeiss or whoever spits out the same thing at 1/3 of the price and suddenly you\'re struggling to even ditch your M9 in the used market at half what you paid.
I\'m with PhotoMaximum, the digital market is not the same as the film market. Awesome cameras, you get what you need, but you do it more often and you deal with the depreciation. \"For years\" is a dead notion. There was a time that you bought a Leica and 20 years later you handed it over to your kid. If I do that in 20 years my (now 2 month old) daughter will probably piss herself laughing, take out her ipod and snap a 20 Terapixel hologram of me holding my Leica
Oct 17, 2009 at 10:44 PM
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