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Subject: [Leica] OT Congrats--Nathan. Alicante may have saved the world!
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:56:17 -0700
References: <291385.89287.qm@web114719.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:54 AM, W. R. Smith wrote:

> Interesting reading:
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110331/bs_afp/spainenergyalternativeenvironmentresearch


pictures please...

Nathan?



> 
> --- On Thu, 3/31/11, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> 
> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] My M8 is going back for service....
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 9:37 AM
> 
> Techie excuses are usually just that--excuses.
> 
> Note to self: do not buy a second-hand M8 from that man ;-)
> 
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.nathanfoto.com
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
> 
> YNWA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:
> 
>> At first, I was enamored with the whole DIgi-M thing....   New files to 
>> look
>> at, new SW to learn, just plain NEW to deal with.....  After that wore 
>> off,
>> I started looking at the files and wondering why stuff was not as sharp as
>> my film results.
>> 
>> I kept reading stories of why this lens or that lens was too old, with
>> back/front focusing, why I had not done my testing right, why the problem
>> was caused by diffraction, wrong/old/not blueprinted monitor, wrong SW,
>> no/wrong sharpening applied, I  was too picky, no direct comparison, other
>> rational reasons that I was wrong.
>> 
>> IOW, I was a sucker for techie excuses.
>> 
>> Once I got access to another Digi-M, and yet another lens that was not
>> giving decent focus results, I made more tests and concluded it was not
>> me.... 
>> 
>> It became.. either it gets fixed, or I sell it.
>> 
>> Step 1... send it to Leica to get fixed to my satisfaction.....
>> 
>> We'll see what Step 2 is..... 
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> Red735i at earthlink.net
>> 
>> What really puzzles me about all this is why you put up with such an
>> obviously dysfunctional camera for 18 months--you must be the world's most
>> patient man.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Replies: Reply from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] OT Congrats--Nathan. Alicante may have saved the world!)
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