Should I sell my M7?

[scjohn]

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I will hold on to my M7 because I do not have an MP. ( I want something I feel safe using on long backpacking trips.) If I were you (with an MP) I would let the M7 go. I use it so infrequently now that the shutter speeds have grown inaccurate. I actually loaned it to a photo student at a local university last year just so someone could get it some work. If you will never use it it will age badly.

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[BerndReini]

Yes, the drum scans were oil mounted and done by a very good lab. There is very little noise, but it's the same with the M8 at ISO160 and even 320. A lot of time, I need the extra almost two stops that ISO 320 gives me over Ektar. Slide film is not an option for how I shoot. I would have to give up too much shadow detail for my style of photography. David Alan Harvey used to shoot in similar light on slide film, but he embraced huge areas of black in his photographs.

 

Jeff, yes, it is the psychological hurdle of not wanting to waste film because of the expense, the work (filing etc.), and the ecological disadvantages.

[adli]

I sold one M6 TTL a couple of years ago, the M7 a month ago. I've kept one M6 TTL, but mainly as a sort of atavistic security blanket - I've not shot with film in 5 years. I'd tend to sell the M7 and either get an MP or an earlier M6 if and when I needed one.

 

Your decision though!

 

Do you mind if I ask why you would prefer an earlier M6 instead of the TTL?

 

I have an mid-eighties M6, but I can't se any differences between this and the TTL except the obvious TTL.

[BerndReini]

Probably because the M7 brings about twice the money when you sell it. It's cheaper to hang on to the M6.