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Subject: [Leica] Bad weekend?
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Nov 13 15:30:04 2006
References: <20061113135723.BUA91752@ms03.lnh.mail.rcn.net> <001201c70755$feeeb5a0$0a01a8c0@MacPhisto>

batteries at $100  apiece? You must work for the government!

Christopher Williams wrote:

>Fix 300 images? Try more like 1,000 :) One helluva batch fix!
>
>There's always more batteries, no big deal on that.
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>Chris
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <larry.k@rcn.com>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad weekend?
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>>Hey Walty,
>>  It certainly would take a lot of batteries to shoot a wedding! That's
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>another good reason to avoid the wedding biz. ;-)
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>>  Yes, the color can be corrected in Photoshop, not always perfectly, I
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>would say. The real question is, why should we have to go to such trouble
>with this camera, when a lot of other pro level cameras do not have such
>drastic color problems. I would feel for any wedding guy who has to fix 300
>images. As someone else said, the camera would be a nightmare in that case.
>Still, I love the camera and have not returned mine, but would like to see
>it fixed.
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>>  As for me, I will sell the M8 to buy the M9, sell the M9 to buy the M10,
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>sell the M10 to buy the M11! ;-) My guess is that it will cost be around
>$500-$800 a year this way, not that big a deal. Life is too short to miss
>out on the fun of working with a new Leica product, even one that has flaws!
>;-)
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>>  Regards,
>>
>>  Larry
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>>-----------------------------------------
>>Larry
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>>I was kidding about the wedding photo business and some of the issues
>>with the M8. Mostly, how many batteries it would take to shoot a
>>wedding. Magenta can be corrected in PS. I haven't seen one in person
>>yet but imagine it won't be long. As far as an M digital purchase I'll
>>wait for the M11. :-)
>>
>>Walt
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Replies: Reply from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re:Bad weekend NOW batteries and the rich people who use them)
In reply to: Message from larry.k at rcn.com (larry.k@rcn.com) ([Leica] Bad weekend?)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Bad weekend?)