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Subject: [Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:07:45 +0100
References: <2B2B10D8-BBC4-449D-884A-286C2A1B2CD1@mac.com> <4E4ECF8F-F6BD-4162-9DF3-EB431C513752@frozenlight.eu>

Now I can see them, very nice indeed, especially the dentist sign.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
(sent from somewhere)


Den 16/02/2014 kl. 05.07 skrev Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com>:

> Great to hear, Mitch!
> 
> But...I cannot see any pictures. The links take me to a grey page with no 
> image.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> 
> YNWA
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> On Feb 16, 2014, at 3:38 AM, 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/
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In reply to: Message from zeissler at mac.com (Mitch Zeissler) ([Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it)
Message from nwajsman at gmail.com (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it)