[Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy

[Philippe]

Good on you Gerry!

As to Alamy, they seem to be fairly partial to Leica and somewhat inconsistent in their policy - there was a time when the acceptable cameras included the Leica Digilux 3, and not the Panasonic L1, which were just and plainly the same camera. The Red Dot effect that works magic? Go figure!

Keep the good work coming.

Amities
Philippe

Le 22 avr. 2016 à 20:40, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> a écrit :

> 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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