[Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy

[Tina Manley]

Gerry -

I have had exactly the same experience with Alamy and Fuji and quickly
switched back to Leica only.  It does make a huge difference.

Tina

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
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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> Gerry
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