[Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy

[piers@hemy.org]

Or there could indeed be other factors, such as a simple filter on EXIF
data. From a chat with a senior Alamy staffer some years ago, I know that
they want (and need) to minimise the manual input to curating the images
they offer, and certainly in the early days they used a pretty crude tool
to filter out the less-than-best - only images from specified cameras would
be considered. Perhaps the converse is at play here, anything from an M9 is
assumed worth a look. And in the case of Gerry's images, that is an
automatic pass. But XPro files do not get that assumption, so even Gerry's
images may not even make the first cut.

Piers

On Saturday, 23 April 2016, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> There may be other variables at play, for example the lenses you are
> using. In any event, the respective sample sizes do not allow for drawing
> statistically meaningful conclusions yet.
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> > On 22 Apr 2016, at 23:20, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > Peter
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> > I am fairly convinced it is a problem with the sensors which are
> different to others, and a problem with sharpening the images.
> >
> > Gerry
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> >> On 22 Apr 2016, at 22:11, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> >> Gerry,
> >>
> >> Do you have, or can you get, any indication of what the difference is.
> It seems
> >> that there are so many variables, perhaps the cameras/sensors, perhaps
> the
> >> editors, perhaps...
> >>
> >> Anyway I am glad that you are getting the images accepted again,
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> On 22/04/2016 19:40, 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!
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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!
> >>>
> >>> Gerry
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Gerry Walden LRPS
> >>> www.gwpics.com
> >>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> >>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
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