Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/16

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Subject: [Leica] My next Leica body may be a Fuji XT-1
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:14:38 -0400

A Fuji XT-1 is similar to a Leica camera in what way? They're both cameras?


On 10/15/14 10:58 PM, "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote:

> On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Bob Adler wrote:
> 
>> I bought one for my wife and haven't touched it.
>> She's a novice and complains each time she uses it that she must've 
>> touched
>> some button (and yes I locked down the buttons even) and now it doesn't 
>> work.
>> With a prior fuji I had the same issue.
>> Despite how hard I try, I just can't get past the constant, inadvertent
>> button strikes.
> 
> ==============================================================================
> ======================
> 
> I don't think I'd like the XT-1, since I prefer the rangefinder-like bodies
> without the prism hump - I've hardly used my Canon 30D since I got my X-E2
> last December.
> 
> 
> I love the Fuji so much that when I go out I have to take IT, with 35, 50 
> and
> 85 manual lenses. I carry my LX3 too, just in case I might want to take a
> wide-angle shot.
> 
> 
> The X-E2 is the favorite digital camera I've ever used, and that group
> includes Canon 1D, 1Ds, 10D, 30D, 1D MkII,
> 
> and 5D MkII.   I shot a few frames with an M8, and liked it, but the EVF on
> the Fuji allows me to use a variety of oddball lenses that I have.
> 
> 
> 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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Replies: Reply from dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com (Dennis Kushner) ([Leica] My next Leica body may be a Fuji XT-1)
In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] My next Leica body may be a Fuji XT-1)