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Subject: [Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:48:26 -0500
References: <637C7BD6-4449-49C6-8233-41A9E873387C@icloud.com>

Congratulations on the success, Gerry.  Obviously, the Leica name in the 
EXIF file counts 50%. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/22/2016 1:40 PM, Gerry Walden wrote:
> 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!
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> 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
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> Gerry Walden LRPS
> www.gwpics.com
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
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