Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have the same problem. gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <nwajsman at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:07:43 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it Great to hear, Mitch! But...I cannot see any pictures. The links take me to a grey page with no image. 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 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information