[Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

++1!!

Fantastic!

So glad your health has improved, too!

Tina

On Saturday, February 15, 2014, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com>
wrote:
> 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/
>
>
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