Walking around with a M9 (or any other expensive camera)

I think that for most cases, I would use my M9 (like I use my M8 now) and in cases where the environment is a bit more funky, I would choose my M6 with one lens. I did look at the M9p, which is very nice, but a 500 euro premium for sapphire glass and a stealthier look is a bit much, I 'll use tape..
 
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Peter S said:
Not so sure about the adding on to the household insurance. I think it covers less, although it does cover theft, but specialist camera insurance covers more. For world wide coverage I pay 2.3% of the value and have a deductible of 200 EUR and a deductible of 250 EUR in case I dropped or banged/scratched the camera.
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Also, household coverage normally excludes professional use.

Cheers,

R.
 
Turtle said:
Quite. If you buy a new Ford Focus, 1.6 (something modest), you will lose in depreciation in under two years what a M9 is worth. So a person can buy the used car and the M9. I don't see either the person choosing this route, or the new Focus, being decadent or throwing wealth about in an obscene fashion, do you? If you do, then living in a carboard box (preferably without clothes) is about the only course that offers sufficient chastisement for the unwelcome privilege of having the option of living otherwise.
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Over breakfast, Frances and I were talking about other things that cost the same as an M9 in the UK. As well as your example of depreciation of a modest motor car, and mine of smoking (20 a day for 2 years) we thought of a reasonably luxurious new fitted kitchen or bathroom, most decent motorcycles over about 250cc, a carbon/titanium racing bicycle, a half-decent grand piano (even a Chinese-made Moultrie can cost more than an M9) or a good new upright, a fortnight's fairly expensive holiday for two...

The thing is, an M9 is quite small, so if you're judging price by the pound (or of course by the kilo), a Leica looks expensive next to a piano. But I have absolutely no doubt which is more use for me, as I have Van Gogh's ear when it comes to playing the piano.

Cheers,

R.
 
buzzardkid said:
Why, would that be at risk less when taking out into the streets and field? Won't need insurance? :confused:
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Well I didn't say that he will not need insurance, but it looks less conspicuous in my opinion. No red dot and no "M9". Just a thought, although I still would insure it!
 
Wow, two years of smoking is as expensive as an M9? Glad that I don't smoke! Also: I would love to have a grand piano, but I have not got the space for it.. even a double bass (which I have considered) would fill up my house.
 
"But I have absolutely no doubt which is more use for me, as I have Van Gogh's ear when it comes to playing the piano. "

:D:D:D:DGood one, Roger!


 
My M8 is mostly invisible - maybe 'cos I am of a certain age , and it's considered just another old [ film ] camera .
 
Hi, first of all congratulations on your new acquisition. I upgraded to an M9 from an M8 1 year ago. I cover the red logo with black electrical tape to make it more discete and carry it down at my side rather than on a strap around my neck. I use it particularly when I need to be discete - ie the old medina in Marrakech. It attracts virtually no attention, whereas using my Canon 1DsMk3 with L series lenses always gets noticed!! Having said that I was photographing in Lyme Regis last weekend with the M9 and an observant man walking past just said I like your camera. I think the only people who tend to notice are fellow Leicaphiles rather than thieves! I even ended up on the blogsite of a Californian professional photographer on holiday in London who was using a 1Dsmk3 but stopped to ask me if I liked the M9. Get out and about and use it that what they made it for!
 
DrDick said:
Hi, first of all congratulations on your new acquisition. I upgraded to an M9 from an M8 1 year ago. I cover the red logo with black electrical tape to make it more discete and carry it down at my side rather than on a strap around my neck. I use it particularly when I need to be discete - ie the old medina in Marrakech. It attracts virtually no attention, whereas using my Canon 1DsMk3 with L series lenses always gets noticed!! Having said that I was photographing in Lyme Regis last weekend with the M9 and an observant man walking past just said I like your camera. I think the only people who tend to notice are fellow Leicaphiles rather than thieves! I even ended up on the blogsite of a Californian professional photographer on holiday in London who was using a 1Dsmk3 but stopped to ask me if I liked the M9. Get out and about and use it that what they made it for!
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Wouldn't that make it easier to steal? And possibly more conspicuous, given how many people carry cameras around their necks?

Cheers,

R.
 
Damn, retnall, I didn't realize owning an M9 made me a decadent right-wing capitalist pig. I only wanted a digital camera for my M lenses......

Hey, I don't drive Porsches, Bentleys or Benzes, I don't blow my money on coke and hookers, I don't own a McMansion, and I don't feed the crap tables in Las Vegas. Ain't I allowed to have ONE vice?
 
This is an interesting thread - I never worried really about a camera (or anything else I own) until someone tells me to!
Then, after a short time, I forget, and go on happily with my life.
 
Paul Luscher said:
Damn, retnall, I didn't realize owning an M9 made me a decadent right-wing capitalist pig. I only wanted a digital camera for my M lenses...
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