Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Three really sensational shots--proof that life's too short to screw around with second-best. You made a wise decision to get a camera commensurate with your skill. Jim Shulman Wynnewood, PA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mitch Zeissler Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 9:39 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it I'm back. The past 8 months have been very rough with a bad health scare, several operations, and lots of recovery time -- but now everything is looking more positive and I'm doing a lot better. Back in late December, I was delighted to receive a Sony Alpha a7 as a Christmas gift from my wife. It produced wonderful full-frame images in a delightfully small package... until it died just 10 days later. Both the system board and CMOS chip went completely non-responsive and I had to send the camera in for factory warranty servicing. Ugh. The camera was shipped to Texas, but was actually serviced in Mexico; my phone calls to the contact center apparently went to the Pacific Rim somewhere; follow-up conversations were quite difficult and halting as the words were translated into four different languages. Eventually (over a month later) I received the camera back in perfect working order, but the damage was done -- I no longer have any faith in the product, was angered at how my service ticket was handled, and very unhappy to discover that my Sony lenses would have to be replaced if I wanted to actually utilize the full-frame resolution of the camera. Screw that. And luckily for me, my wife agreed. So now I'm the happy owner of a new M 240 -- which works perfectly well with the Leica and Voigtl?nder glass that I already have. And here are the first images that I've posted from it so far. http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/14/soft/ http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/14/610-to-yumouth/ http://exploratorius.us/2014/02/15/dusk-at-whites-ferry/ Comments or suggestions are welcome. Mitch Zeissler === Website: http://exploratorius.us/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information