M9 purchase advice

[Roger Hicks]

For fast action I find the M9 much easier.

For macro, well, there's always the Visoflex.

As for waiting: you can spend the rest off your life doing that. The only waiting I do is until I can afford it.

Cheers,

R.

 

[jaapv]

For fast food you can always get a burger at Mac D. And a bargain at the supermarket for today's expiry date. However, I have a somewhat more developed taste.🙄

I'd say wait for the M10.

And then get the M9!

For fast action and macro work you can always get a cheap crop DSLR.

 

[dave lackey]

For fast food you can always get a burger at Mac D. And a bargain at the supermarket for today's expiry date. However, I have a somewhat more developed taste.🙄

Great metaphor...

Just get the M9. You can always sell it for a good price and go back to Nikon DSLRs if you want later.... just do it.:angel:

 

[anthony_semone]

Hey Dave, Roger,

well noted 🙂

 

[SciAggie]

As for waiting: you can spend the rest off your life doing that.

I have a very good and wise friend who gave me advice once about waiting. I commented that I was going to wait awhile before doing something. His response was, "If you wait long enough, you'll die". I have never forgotten his advice and I try not to squander time. This is irrelevant to this discussion really, but I wanted to share.

 

[Roger Hicks]

For fast food you can always get a burger at Mac D. And a bargain at the supermarket for today's expiry date. However, I have a somewhat more developed taste.🙄

Oh, I don't know. There was the time I bought a kilo of short-dated trout eggs for ten pounds (10x 100g jars, dated 3 days hence) and had great fun devising recipes for them. One of them was so successful that we use it to this day, and it is very simple: smoked trout, trout eggs, and creme fraiche with tagliatelle. Cook the noodles; add the creme fraiche; reduce slightly; add the trout, cut in strips; cook for another minute or two; and then, just before serving, stir in the trout eggs. Ideally accompany it with champagne but a cremant d'Alsace goes well if you're on a budget.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I have a very good and wise friend who gave me advice once about waiting. I commented that I was going to wait awhile before doing something. His response was, "If you wait long enough, you'll die". I have never forgotten his advice and I try not to squander time. This is irrelevant to this discussion really, but I wanted to share.

Dear Gary,

Not irrelevant at all!

Keynes famously said "In the long run, we are all dead," and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus said something to the effect of, "Live each day as if it were thy last."

Furthermore, if you put off the things you don't want to do, it's surprising how often you don't have to do them at all. Procrastination is not always the thief of time.

Then again, the other popular saying that is often quoted by the hard of thinking is "Winners never quit, and quitters never win." A moment's thought will reveal that knowing when to quit -- when to apply your energies more profitably elsewhere -- is often an essential part of a winning strategy.

Cheers,

R.

 

[dave lackey]

A moment's thought will reveal that knowing when to quit -- when to apply your energies more profitably elsewhere -- is often an essential part of a winning strategy.

Well, there you go... 😉