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Subject: [Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:53:27 -0400

Well if it looks kind of like a Leica it must be just as good as one.


On 4/23/16 9:50 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> I can not keep track of all these cameras as to what is what so the first
> thing I do is do a Bing search for Fujifilm X-Pro1 Mirrorless Digital 
> Camera
> (Body Only)  and I get $499.00 at B&H and its not clear if its new or used 
> I
> think its new when I look further I see that in 2012 when it came out it 
> was
> selling for $1200. And its a  cropped format camera. This is a camera which
> compares with a full frame Leica M camera body how? Do we blur our eyes and
> pretending we are looking at the same thing here?
> This is a camera obviously marketed to the the mass hipster market for
> people who want to pretend they are doing a Leica thing at a fraction of 
> the
> cost as it looks good around your neck walking down the street.  And as a
> cropped camera its apples and oranges.
> It's suspension of disbelief folks. A shell game. Story time. Here on the
> LUG we should know better.
> 
> 
> On 4/23/16 6:19 AM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Gerry -
> 
> I have had exactly the same experience with Alamy and Fuji and
>> quickly
> switched back to Leica only.  It does make a huge
>> difference.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Gerry Walden
>> <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 




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Mark William Rabiner
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