[Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy

Jim Nichols jhnichols at lighttube.net
Fri Apr 22 11:48:26 PDT 2016


Congratulations on the success, Gerry.  Obviously, the Leica name in the 
EXIF file counts 50%. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/22/2016 1:40 PM, Gerry Walden wrote:
> As most of you will know i was a Fuji X-World photographer shooting with two  X-Pro1s and a variety of lenses, and I was fairly happy. However in July last year I moved back to Leica after about 13 years and purchased a used M9. I had shot with Leica Ms for many years but changed when I made the decision to go digital, and Leica simply did not have a digital body, and appeared to have no intention of producing one. It cost me a lot of money to switch back but I was rapidly approaching 70 and decided if I couldn’t have what I wanted at my age it was a sad world!
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> I have submitted to Alamy for many years, and have around 4,000 images with them. I am always very careful about quality when I submit because they are pretty fussy, but I found that I was only getting about a 50% acceptance rate with the Fuji cameras, and could never work out why. The images looked fine to me on the screen. It was a real problem.
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> I have now made 17 submissions using Leica images, and have not had a single failure! That makes the change really worthwhile. Others will say “Of course, you should have known” but I would never have thought it would be that obvious!
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