Frank Sprow Posted November 3, 2009 Share #21 Posted November 3, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) My recommendation is to hold on to the MP, a great camera indeed as are all the film M's, buy an M9 and take a class in nude photography to keep you young. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jager Posted November 3, 2009 Share #22 Posted November 3, 2009 My recommendation is to hold on to the MP, a great camera indeed as are all the film M's, buy an M9 and take a class in nude photography to keep you young. LOL! I'm with Frank! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Valdemar Posted November 3, 2009 Share #23 Posted November 3, 2009 Don't worry about what will happen after you're dead, it won't trouble you in the least then. Dump the MP and get the M9 if you really want it. Have fun. After the next phase of the economic crash that's coming, you can buy back MPs by the carload cheap if you have any money left. Your children will put your stuff in the garbage can or sell it on eBay before you're cold. If your son is a doctor, he can buy what he wants after you're dead, he doesn't need your old cameras. And if you don't drop dead soon, the M9 will be worthless and obsolete in a few years. Get what you want and enjoy it now. Any second, you could get apoplexy and turn into a drooling vegetable, so have fun with the camera you want now before it's curtains for you. Very silly to agonize over an expensive toy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andalus Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share #24 Posted November 3, 2009 Thanks for all the wisdom, guys. Yeah, I'm getting to M9 now, or as soon as Dales can deliver, darn it. Thanks be to having bought some gold three years ago. Finance your own M9 with gold bought NOW. It will go much higher. The dollar, like all fiat currencies, will go to its intrinsic value eventually -- ZERO. It's just PAPER. Indeed, an M9 now, if we do get a big ramp in inflation, will be as good as gold for a while anyway. And a LOT more expensive, in dollar terms, a year from now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted November 3, 2009 Share #25 Posted November 3, 2009 Actuarial tables show that you will live another 18.91 years. By that time, the M9 will be an ancient relic and film will be hard to find and even harder to get processed. Buy it now, use it, enjoy it and forget about passing it or the MP along to your son. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLV Posted November 3, 2009 Share #26 Posted November 3, 2009 Andalus, Sell your MP and enjoy a M9. 62 is young and we wish you plenty of years to shoot with (till 120 as we say in Israel ) Here are my 2 shekalim:D All the best, Jean-Luc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Valdemar Posted November 3, 2009 Share #27 Posted November 3, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) You are right about that. Gold hit $1090 today, and that's just kid stuff compared to what's coming. Buy the M9 and have fun. Thanks for all the wisdom, guys. Yeah, I'm getting to M9 now, or as soon as Dales can deliver, darn it. Thanks be to having bought some gold three years ago. Finance your own M9 with gold bought NOW. It will go much higher. The dollar, like all fiat currencies, will go to its intrinsic value eventually -- ZERO. It's just PAPER. Indeed, an M9 now, if we do get a big ramp in inflation, will be as good as gold for a while anyway. And a LOT more expensive, in dollar terms, a year from now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minhhich Posted December 4, 2009 Share #28 Posted December 4, 2009 If you want something different fun and can afford it then get a M9 along with your film body. But remember when your son inherit it, he will not like the M9 as there will be M16 etc on the market. You say your son will never shoot film but hey, I was an example of not liking film for at least 5 years before last year. Im 22 now. So you never know. Just that we dont know how long film is there for:cool: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted December 4, 2009 Share #29 Posted December 4, 2009 Keep the MP. Buy a clean used M8 or M8.2 and see if you enjoy the digital workflow. If so, get your M9. If you die before that, your son will inherit 2 cameras...then he can decide. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheewai_m6 Posted December 4, 2009 Share #30 Posted December 4, 2009 who cares how old you are? whether you enjoy the m9 for 10 years or 10 days, it's better than not having enjoyed it and wishing you did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted December 4, 2009 Share #31 Posted December 4, 2009 People on their death bed do more often regret the things they did not do, than the things they did. The old man from the Age of Marcus Aurelius Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicanut2 Posted December 6, 2009 Share #32 Posted December 6, 2009 I have to say I will turn 58 on 12/24/09 and understand what Andalus is saying. Out of my small group of friends two are gone one at the age of 42 other died at 56. We are all High school buddies. I am older than both of them. I can no longer think that I can double my age at 58 I would be 116 that aint going to happen. When I was 40 sure might hit 80. I sold my MP and have a M9 on order. My son is into the digital age and hate to say it likes digital cameras more than film. But has used both. I plan on bugging him well into my 90's maybe even older and remember I can alway take pictures of some hot nurses in the nursing home when I hit 100 Cheers Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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