Guest BigSplash Posted October 25, 2009 Share #1 Posted October 25, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Is it not time to merge both of these forums. Personally I have an M8 but find myself looking at the M9 forum and never at M8...judging from the viewing figures I am not the only one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 25, 2009 Posted October 25, 2009 Hi Guest BigSplash, Take a look here M9 & M8 Forum merge?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
lars_bergquist Posted October 25, 2009 Share #2 Posted October 25, 2009 I think this is a very reasonable idea. Now when the M9 is launched, and the curiosity and the speculation are stilled and only real technical questions remain, we will find that these questions will be more about digital M photography, and less about specific models. Much of it will actually be about rangefinder photography, pure and simple -- and those enquiries will increasingly be directed at a digital and not a film forum, but I can already see here that M8 versus M9 is not a relevant distinction to those newbies. The old man from the Age of the IIIa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Morley Posted October 25, 2009 Share #3 Posted October 25, 2009 Yes please. Sooner the better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted October 25, 2009 Share #4 Posted October 25, 2009 I've supported this idea all along. Yes, please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat_mcdermott Posted October 25, 2009 Share #5 Posted October 25, 2009 Ditto. Merge them please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayham Posted October 25, 2009 Share #6 Posted October 25, 2009 Yes please, because M8+M9=DM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolo Posted October 25, 2009 Share #7 Posted October 25, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can't see the point in following this suggestion at all. Really don't understand the motivation of individuals wanting a faster moving forum. Over 85% of all the threads in the M9 Forum are specifically about M9 issues and there's enough of them to warrant a separate subsection. The connection with the M8 is tenuous and the benefit to either M8, or M9 users has not been explained adequately, IMO. Maybe when 50% of the M9 Forum threads are about digital rangefinders and not my 35mm lens on the M9 with an IR filter ................ etc, the joining would be justified, IMO. Till then, my vote is to keep them separate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted October 25, 2009 Share #8 Posted October 25, 2009 I agree. Both cameras are similar, and topics for one are quite likely to be of interest to the other. Adding all the people who have M8s and are eyeing M9s, it makes even more sense. The M forum over on getdpi handles X, M8, M9 and DMR, and I find it a very nice mix. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricC Posted October 25, 2009 Share #9 Posted October 25, 2009 I agree. I think that with the forum split as it is both M8 and M9 owners are missing posts that could be of interest to both sets of users. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjernemadsen Posted October 25, 2009 Share #10 Posted October 25, 2009 I agree to Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mby Posted October 25, 2009 Share #11 Posted October 25, 2009 +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicaiste Posted October 25, 2009 Share #12 Posted October 25, 2009 Is it not time to merge both of these forums. Personally I have an M8 but find myself looking at the M9 forum and never at M8...judging from the viewing figures I am not the only one. I think it is to early. It may push interesting topics on page 2. Lets wait six months. Lucien Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolo Posted October 25, 2009 Share #13 Posted October 25, 2009 The M forum over on getdpi handles film, M8 and M9, and I find it a very nice mix. Carstenm GetDpi lumps M, X and R in one section. Is that something you'd like to see here ? The GetDpi Leica content is a fraction of what it is here. One thread for all M8 shots and another for all M9 shots with a couple of images a day being added. I like GetDpi for it's diversity, but they'd need a different structure to handle the volumes as here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogenis Posted October 25, 2009 Share #14 Posted October 25, 2009 merge +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissah Posted October 25, 2009 Share #15 Posted October 25, 2009 I think it is to early. It may push interesting topics on page 2. Lets wait six months. Lucien i think we should merge now, i find i miss more stuff going back and forth that if post gets pushed to page two. please one forum! best melissa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted October 25, 2009 Share #16 Posted October 25, 2009 Why don't we have a poll to see how many M9 forum people also go to the M8 forum and how many M8ers also go to M9. If there is significant overlap, then it makes sense to merge; if little overlap, no merge. I look at both as I have an M8 and am waiting for an M9; and just might decide to keep both. So I look at both regularly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted October 25, 2009 Share #17 Posted October 25, 2009 GetDpi lumps M, X and R in one section. Is that something you'd like to see here? Yes, partly (the film part was wrong; I corrected my post, but after you quoted). I understand that traffic is an issue here, and due to this it would probably makes less sense to integrate DMR and X into this forum. Part of the problem with traffic is just to get new users not to always start new threads, but to use the search function (which works very well) to educate themselves, and then if necessary contribute to existing threads, and part of it is redundant threads, such as the Lightroom 3 Beta threads in both forums. Part of it is also cultural. Things are very segregated here. I am not interested in hanging out in so many small forums (film, M8, M9, Barnack's Bar...), and prefer to post photos in other forums like getdpi or fredmiranda, and just chat about the M8 and M9 here. If more things would be allowed to coexist without the hard separation, then I would probably use this forum more exclusively. As it is, many good threads go unread by many potentially interested photographers simply because they don't follow the forums they are posted on. Lens threads are one example. I find the separation artificial, and it only serves to increase the barriers between different kinds of M users, and to decrease the overview one gets of the system as a whole. Leica's site is split into M system, S system, and so on, but here the split is less logical and more religious: Film, M8, M9, ... I would much prefer to go the Leica way, and consider the system as a whole: film, digital, lenses, processing, photos. I would rather keep up with high traffic in one M forum, rather than having to deal with all these little forums, and redundancies within them. M8+M9 would be a good first step. This would be a lot of work, but it would be much nicer to use a forum such as this if threads could be consistently keyworded, and people would choose keywords for the kinds of threads they would like to see. It would also be great if when I see a thread that I am not interested in, I could mark it and never see it again (unless I took steps to do so). There is a lot of unnecessary repeat work involved in reading a forum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noah_addis Posted October 25, 2009 Share #18 Posted October 25, 2009 I think it's time. I no longer check the M8 forum even though there might be things of interest there. I vote for one Digital M forum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delander † Posted October 25, 2009 Share #19 Posted October 25, 2009 I also think it is time, I have both cameras and have to keep looking in both forums. Not difficult I know. There will be a growing number of M9 users, who have a lot of experience with the M8 - useful to new M8 owners. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted October 26, 2009 Share #20 Posted October 26, 2009 1) I think the forums should definitely merge sometime... 2) Right now there are still some tender feelings regarding the availability of the M9, and the semi-orphaning of the M8 re: firmware, and a lot of very M9-specific questions as we learn it that would likely bore happy M8 users to wade through. 3) It takes only two clicks to get from one to the other: - click "Digital Forum" - click "M8 Forum" or" M9 Forum." 4) I'd say the time will be ripe when all the "M-whatever is better than the M-whatsis" threads and tests have gone away. Couple of months at most. And of course WE can influence that by posting fewer "better than" posts in the first place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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