[Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Mitch:  I can think of far worse things to succumb to. Congrats! And so 
glad the health scare had a good outcome.  The pics are beautiful, and 
yes, "Soft" is very special. Keep 'em coming.

--Peter

 > I?m back.
 >
 > The past 8 months have been very rough with a bad health scare, several
 > operations, and lots of recovery time ? but now everything is looking 
more
 > positive and I?m doing a lot better.
 >
 > Back in late December, I was delighted to receive a Sony Alpha a7 as a
 > Christmas gift from my wife.  It produced wonderful full-frame images 
in a
 > delightfully small package? until it died just 10 days later.
 >
 > Both the system board and CMOS chip went completely non-responsive 
and I had
 > to send the camera in for factory warranty servicing.  Ugh. The 
camera was
 > shipped to Texas, but was actually serviced in Mexico; my phone calls 
to the
 > contact center apparently went to the Pacific Rim somewhere; follow-up
 > conversations were quite difficult and halting as the words were 
translated
 > into four different languages.  Eventually (over a month later) I 
received
 > the camera back in perfect working order, but the damage was done ? I no
 > longer have any faith in the product, was angered at how my service 
ticket
 > was handled, and very unhappy to discover that my Sony lenses would 
have to
 > be replaced if I wanted to actually utilize the full-frame resolution 
of the
 > camera.
 >
 > Screw that.  And luckily for me, my wife agreed.
 >
 > So now I?m the happy owner of a new M 240 ? which works perfectly 
well with
 > the Leica and Voigtl?nder glass that I already have.  And here are 
the first
 > images that I?ve posted from it so far.
 >
 > http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/14/soft/
 > http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/14/610-to-yumouth/
 > http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/15/dusk-at-whites-ferry/
 >
 > Comments or suggestions are welcome.
 >
 > Mitch Zeissler
 > ===
 >    Website: http://exploratorius.us/