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Subject: [Leica] Why Pros in general and us amateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 07:28:17 -0700
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> On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:10 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been using Leicas for 40 years and have regretted every excursion 
> into other systems.  I sent my film cameras in for CLA after every trip 
> and never had problems with them. I sent my M9 in after I dropped it on a 
> marble floor and knocked it out of alignment. They discovered that the 
> sensor was bad and offered to replace it for free or give me the same 
> amount off on the new Monochrome.

When they decide to give this service to all, they will have grown up.


Steve




>  I got the MM and haven't regretted it. I've been speaking to college 
> photo classes lately and most of them have never heard of Leica!
> 
> Tina
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 7, 2016, at 9:36 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> I have no idea why people compare simple mechanical cameras which do not 
>> require batteries (I have M2, Nikon F2 (plain prism) and 500C/M) with 
>> digital cameras. I used Fuji X-T1 and the results, for me, were nowhere 
>> close to what I get with Leica.
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr>wrote:
>> 
>>> ......In the last 12 months, three sensors (M9, original Monochrom and
>> S2-P, plus currently on my third S AF failure), all carried out >free 
>> including shipping.....
>> 
>> ===================================================================================================
>> 
>> Wow(?).   I used my (second-hand) M3 every day for 40 years, personally 
>> and
>> at work, and it is still going strong.  I'd still use it if I had a 
>> darkroom.
>> 
>> Loved my film Leicas, but I'm glad I saved a lot of money (and grief) by 
>> buying a Fuji body for all my diverse lenses.  No problems in three years.
>> 
>> -
>> Alan
>> 
>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of 
>> Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
>> (Retired)
>> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
>> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
>> amr3 at uwm.edu
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>> 
>> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate  for an inability to 
>> notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>> 
>> 
>> 
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