Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here's a short slideshow of 13 images from Miyazaki's summer Erekocha Festival. Erekocha is local slang for 'Wow!" Miyazaki, a mainly rural area, has had a difficult summer due to a foot and mouth outbreak among cows and pigs, requiring wide scale slaughter of livestock. The crisis is now over, but the economic effects are estimated to run to 235 billion yen over the next 5 years. The locals were in need of a festival. Dancing in traditional summer clothes holding fans, taiko drums, local food stalls, syrupy shaved ice for the tots, ice cream for the little old grannies, beer and shochu for the mums & dads. www.flickr.com/photos/geordiepete/sets/72157624954499888/show/ All photos were taken with a 35mm Asph. 'Cron on an M8. Unfortunately, there is a pixel-fine line running the width of almost every image, to the left of the centre when looking at a horizontal image, or to the bottom when looking at a vertical image. I had the sensor replaced about 4 months ago. The line is more obvious on the evening images, taken at 640 ISO. I don't fancy sending this camera off to Solms again, especially since new laws in Japan mean I'd have to pay tax on a returned repaired item to the same extent as I would have to pay for the import of a brand new camera. I think I'll have to e-mail some sample images to Solms and see what they say. I'm vaguely hoping the problem will just go away, but that doesn't seem likely. Has anyone encountered this problem? Did it just go away? Peter Cheyne