Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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