Thread: Please talk me out of this (at least try)

Originally Posted by The Suit

I love my M9. I think it's a great ski camera, because it's small enough and light enough to carry in an easily accessible bag. You have to give a lot more thought to composition and exposure, but you should be doing that anyway. The same advantages apply to its use as a travel camera, too.

I think I have become a better photographer since I started using the M9, also, because it forced me to think more about what I was doing.

The lenses are fabulous. It takes beautiful pictures.

But - and it's a big but - the M9 didn't cost me a significant fraction of my net worth. Much though I love it, I don't think it's justifiable on a price/performance basis. If you get one, do it because you like to own and use beautiful and elegant tools.

Price/performance ratios are pretty moot points to me(since i make no money on my little passion here). I still own a 1d2 and 1ds2,and wont likely sell either,but theyre also just fun tools that can expose decently,focus quicker than i can think, all in all a lot better cameras than im a photographer. I used to spend more on skiing each season with less than half of what i make now,so not too worried. Thanks for your input,too,by the way! :-)

Norsk.

Have you thought about a Voigtlander as a fully capable alternative to Leica madness?

If you're still considering film, have you thought about a Minolta CLE?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Minolta-CLE-...#ht_905wt_1163

http://www.shutterbug.com/content/mi...camera-company

Originally Posted by jon gaper

Have you thought about a Voigtlander as a fully capable alternative to Leica madness?

Or better yet that CLE body and Voigtlander lenses...

I´m not allowed to consider film anymore.

RN pay in Norway > RN pay in North Carolina
I'm going GX1 as a comparison!

What kind of nursing are you doing?

i think id get the x100 in your place. its a great camera and you seemed to like it. of course only one focal lenght, but then youd probably just pay as much (or less) for a used x100 in very good condition than for a nice m-mount lens. might be worht to just try the one focal length, then if you dont like it or really want interchangeable lenses either switch to leica later (with a good idea on which lenses you want to have) or see if fuji comes up with more interesting options in the interchangeable x-pro system? you wont burn much money anyway, used x100s sell for nearly 90% of their price on ebay germany...

freak~[&]

ps. not that i know much about it, but arent there supposed to be 14mp new sigma dps soon? i had a dp1 which delivered great image quality and was lots of fun, even though a pretty wierd camera...

Originally Posted by jm2e

RN pay in Norway > RN pay in North Carolina
I'm going GX1 as a comparison!

What kind of nursing are you doing?

Icu( im not an icu nurse,shooting for crna in a few years),shiiiiitloads of overtime. We need good nurses,so if you have some er,icu or cardio experience,want to learn norwegian,and for some reason want to move here,youre more than welcome!!

Norsk.

Would love to come work in an ICU over there. Can only imagine the patient population is more bearable than NC
My vet wife, not so much.

Originally Posted by jm2e

Would love to come work in an ICU over there. Can only imagine the patient population is more bearable than NC
My vet wife, not so much.

Is it true you have orderlies doing the cleaning and turning of patients in icus over there? Heard that from one of my colleagues who had worked for a half year at an icu in Chicago. Reply in pm if you want, I m genuinely curious how stuff works over the sea.

Anyway,thought I should share my news with everyone who replied and tried to talk me out of this, I have a minty black M9 with just over 5000 actuations on it coming my way. Cost just over half of what a new one would,and I think I got a great deal. Since I really was nearing a new one with my overtime cash, a decent lens is going on it at some point,too. Thanks everyone!!

Norsk.

Post some pics when it arrives

Will do,got it sitting at home,looking all pretty with nothing to do.
:-)
Norsk.

The lack-a-lens M9:

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

Post some pics of cute backcountry skiing Norwegian women from Tromso when it arrives

FIFY. I've been wanting to make a ski trip to Norway in recent time, and now I know that if I change careers to nursing I can make it a permanently funded trip!

Schralph! Do it!

Well, here´s an update for you, an even better, actual photos shot with the M9. I got to, while saving up for a lens, borrow in succession a Summicron 35/2 v4, and a Minolta Rokkor 40/2. Very, very similar optics, and if I were to pick one, it would be the latter, as it´s three-four times cheaper than the Leica 35. The Minolta´s flange had been filed to draw 35mm framelines, and the composition wasn´t too off.

Some pictures from before I got my own lens to fiddle with and obsess over:

Advanced machinery, grandpa, aged 91 (soon 92) trying to figure out the logics of a one-year-olds Winnie the Pooh computer:


Lines, light and shadows:


Loafers of death:


And then... After rigorous savings, and my wife finally caving into lending me some money so I could actually buy my dream lens, these came to light:

Nurse Stian, my very gay and awesome partner in crime at work:


Nurse Emmy, my female partner in crime at work, equally awesome:

The awesomest of all awesomes combined, Amelie (she prefers "princess" as her suffix, and my beloved wife, Hege (missing is the little piece of awesome called Sofie, four weeks old today, but she will be published at some later point):

The latter three are shot with..dum-dum-dum.. the Leica Summilux 35mm ASPH v2. It´s fucking awesome.

In dim light, there´s no contest regarding focus speed and accuracy, I can do it a hell of a lot quicker on the M9 than with my 1DsII and now sold 24/1.4.

So far, I´m very happy with the camera. Shot it for almost a month. It will probably die on me at some point, but I´m ok with that. The gold is in the glass, and that won´t die this side of Rapture. (hah).