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I received my M9 at Christmastime, ’09. As a landscape photographer, I was curious-verging-on-skeptical if this would be the camera for me but I was determined to make the investment and try. It was time for me to change my equipment; that was clear.
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For years I had worked to varying levels of accomplishment and satisfaction with gear ranging from traditional large format film (a splendid Wisner box and assortment of Schneider glass) to a medium format Hasselblad system (recalling how Ansel, reaching the age at which lugging the larger gear was no longer practical had moved to working with the cameras produced by his friend, Victor Hasselblad). The Hass...

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