Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/