Dan Bachmann Posted June 13, 2013 Share #21 Posted June 13, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) I often think about updating some of my cameras, but then I realize that the gains would not improve my photography. Most interestingly though, while I am taking photographs or thinking about photography, I feel very happy with the tools I have choosen (generally that is a Leica M9). Read too many photography magazines and camera reviews and you'll want a new camera. Or spend your time looking at (or making) great photography and you'll be appreciating simple pleasures of the world around us and forget about the camera someone else has. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fotografr Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share #22 Posted June 13, 2013 I often think about updating some of my cameras, but then I realize that the gains would not improve my photography. Most interestingly though, while I am taking photographs or thinking about photography, I feel very happy with the tools I have choosen (generally that is a Leica M9). Read too many photography magazines and camera reviews and you'll want a new camera. Or spend your time looking at (or making) great photography and you'll be appreciating simple pleasures of the world around us and forget about the camera someone else has. The other side of that viewpoint is what happened to me back in the early days of digital imaging. I bought two Nikon D1 bodies and held on to them a bit too long. By the time I really needed to upgrade in order to keep up with the competition, they were worthless paperweights. Since they cost nearly $5000 each, that was kind of a burn. Fortunately, I think we're at a point where the image quality of the M8 will suffice for quite some time--unless one tries to use them at high ISOs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGodParticle/Hari Posted June 14, 2013 Share #23 Posted June 14, 2013 No - I am a single shot person - my shutter counts are probably considerably below average. What's being a one shot person got to do with low shutter count? :0))))) You could take 300,000 single shots you know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hepcat Posted June 20, 2013 Share #24 Posted June 20, 2013 The other side of that viewpoint is what happened to me back in the early days of digital imaging. I bought two Nikon D1 bodies and held on to them a bit too long. By the time I really needed to upgrade in order to keep up with the competition, they were worthless paperweights. Since they cost nearly $5000 each, that was kind of a burn. Fortunately, I think we're at a point where the image quality of the M8 will suffice for quite some time--unless one tries to use them at high ISOs. That's exactly where I'm at, Brent. I generally never buy new, and I usually buy a generation behind current. I usually sell when it's only two generations back. Because I buy used, most of the depreciation is already gone, and because I sell before it's too outdated, I recover most of what I had in it. Granted, that takes some time and effort, but financially its a sound system. I bought my M8 for about 1/3 it's new price and the M9-P for about half, both with low shutter counts and in like-new condition. The file quality on both is such that I don't feel any need to move newer, and likely may not. I wouldn't even have bought the M9-P had I not felt the need to have a backup body... and it didn't make sense from a techno perspective to buy another M8 with the larger sensor and file size of the M9. There are some advantages of the M9-P over the M8 that I appreciate, but nothing I'd have considered a "must have" upgrade except for sensor size and subsequent file size. IQ -wise, I'll continue be happy with the M8 for many years to come. Both cameras seem to get about equal time out of the bag. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJH Posted June 20, 2013 Share #25 Posted June 20, 2013 My only concern is how much longer will Leica support the M8? I believe they said 10 years for digital bodies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted June 20, 2013 Share #26 Posted June 20, 2013 My only concern is how much longer will Leica support the M8? I believe they said 10 years for digital bodies. From Stefan Daniel interview at last Photokina.... Question: Can we ask you for a statement on the “lifelong endurance” which is mentioned in some of the marketing materiel? Stefan Daniel: We can’t maintain this ambition. Providing a warranty or even repairs over the entire life time or even decades is a hopeless task. We aim to be able to repair our cameras at least 10 years after the last production run. That’s how we set up our stocks of replacement parts. "At least" of course could mean anything. And who knows what Leica, or the camera industry in general, will look like in any given 10 year horizon, as this article discusses. Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
macjonny1 Posted June 26, 2013 Share #27 Posted June 26, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) My only concern is how much longer will Leica support the M8? I believe they said 10 years for digital bodies. Is it really that big of a concern? There will be second hand M8s around for even longer, that you could just replace yours with should yours fail, for probably less than the cost of a repair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
otto.f Posted June 26, 2013 Share #28 Posted June 26, 2013 Pull it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adetokunbosmith Posted June 27, 2013 Share #29 Posted June 27, 2013 In my opinion Leica's are the best when it come to taking closer shots..i actually compared it with a very high end Nikon DSLR but still the clarity of the L was way too high and beyond comparison..i guess i made the right choice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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