Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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! > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >