[Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy

[Gerry Walden]

Tina

So it is not just me then. I think Piers may well be right in that their software/system reads the exif data and filters accordingly. BTW, I have had a couple of reasonable sales this month.

Gerry

> On 23 Apr 2016, at 11:19, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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!
>> 
>> 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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