The female Leica M9 and Leica M9-P users
I promised to dedicate a paragraph to the female users of Leica M9. Those are about 10%, give or take. One thing that is remarkable about female photographers at large, and so evident it's not even a generality when I state it here, is their unhindered enthusiasm.
Female Leica shooters shoot what they see, and often ends up talking with their subjects, they lay down on the street when the shot calls for a low angle, and they are enthusiastic without end about the Leica M9 - which you could call a handbag with a purpose!
Shooting with female Leica M9 photographers is so interesting every man should try go shoot with one. And if your wife or girlfriend is just slightly intersted in the Leica M9, you should be a gentleman and get her one. It will be the best investment ever in that you can share an interest where you relax, walk about, produce images, observe things and are together even you are not next to each other. Relationships are all about creating, and photography happens to be a great way of creating something together.
As most people will be aware, photographing does not go well along with browsing shoe stores or buying supplies in the grocery store. It's simply a matter of rhythm; whereas a group of photographers can easily walk together with different paces for hours interested in different subjects, and end up the same place in the end without having spent one minute waiting for the others. Imagine being able to spend that type of time with your spouse.
But to the matter. It's not that men don't pay attention or aren't enthusiastic, because they are. Men just tend to make sure their cover is ok. They don't take the same childish chances as women. Hence men doesn't get the interaction with people, the contacts, the extraordinary different images that women does.
The Leica M9 camera is one that invites to play, and women does that very well, naturally.
I've met a few female Leica M9 photographers who was well off and could simply buy what they wanted. But I have also met the single mother to three daughters who simply had to have that beautiful camera. In that way women are not that different from the men, as I have met the male student who bought a Leica M9 with lenses despite the fact it was the sinlge largest investment of his lifetime.
But ... It just felt right.
And that seem to count - in almost all cases - more than the price.
