Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/13

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Subject: [Leica] Bad weekend?
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Nov 13 15:31:24 2006
References: <20061113135723.BUA91752@ms03.lnh.mail.rcn.net>

I'd much prefer to shoot divorces.

larry.k@rcn.com wrote:

>Hey Walty,
>  It certainly would take a lot of batteries to shoot a wedding! That's 
> another good reason to avoid the wedding biz. ;-)
>
>  Yes, the color can be corrected in Photoshop, not always perfectly, I 
> would say. The real question is, why should we have to go to such trouble 
> with this camera, when a lot of other pro level cameras do not have such 
> drastic color problems. I would feel for any wedding guy who has to fix 
> 300 images. As someone else said, the camera would be a nightmare in that 
> case. Still, I love the camera and have not returned mine, but would like 
> to see it fixed.
>
>  As for me, I will sell the M8 to buy the M9, sell the M9 to buy the M10, 
> sell the M10 to buy the M11! ;-) My guess is that it will cost be around 
> $500-$800 a year this way, not that big a deal. Life is too short to miss 
> out on the fun of working with a new Leica product, even one that has 
> flaws! ;-) 
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Larry
>
>-----------------------------------------
>Larry 
>
>I was kidding about the wedding photo business and some of the issues 
>with the M8. Mostly, how many batteries it would take to shoot a 
>wedding. Magenta can be corrected in PS. I haven't seen one in person 
>yet but imagine it won't be long. As far as an M digital purchase I'll 
>wait for the M11. :-) 
>
>Walt 
>
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Replies: Reply from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re:Bad weekend?)
In reply to: Message from larry.k at rcn.com (larry.k@rcn.com) ([Leica] Bad weekend?)