Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mitch, Based on these images, you made the right choice! Soft is absolutely wonderful, and the rest are darn near as good, imho. Jay On 2/15/2014 6:38 PM, Mitch Zeissler wrote: > I?m back. > > The past 8 months have been very rough with a bad health scare, several > operations, and lots of recovery time ? but now everything is looking more > positive and I?m doing a lot better. > > Back in late December, I was delighted to receive a Sony Alpha a7 as a > Christmas gift from my wife. It produced wonderful full-frame images in a > delightfully small package? until it died just 10 days later. > > Both the system board and CMOS chip went completely non-responsive and I > had to send the camera in for factory warranty servicing. Ugh. The > camera was shipped to Texas, but was actually serviced in Mexico; my phone > calls to the contact center apparently went to the Pacific Rim somewhere; > follow-up conversations were quite difficult and halting as the words were > translated into four different languages. Eventually (over a month later) > I received the camera back in perfect working order, but the damage was > done ? I no longer have any faith in the product, was angered at how my > service ticket was handled, and very unhappy to discover that my Sony > lenses would have to be replaced if I wanted to actually utilize the > full-frame resolution of the camera. > > Screw that. And luckily for me, my wife agreed. > > So now I?m the happy owner of a new M 240 ? which works perfectly well > with the Leica and Voigtl?nder glass that I already have. And here are > the first images that I?ve posted from it so far. > > http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/14/soft/ > http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/14/610-to-yumouth/ > http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/15/dusk-at-whites-ferry/ > > Comments or suggestions are welcome. > > Mitch Zeissler > === > Website: http://exploratorius.us/ > -- Jay, Jay Burleson Gallery <http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/> "Being a Leica customer is like dating the most beautiful girl in the world... who cares more about herself than you... but, you keep calling her back anyway... because the sex is so good... most of the time." (RickLeica on LUF)