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Subject: [Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:43:10 -0800
References: <2B2B10D8-BBC4-449D-884A-286C2A1B2CD1@mac.com>

Wonderful imagery and feeling! Please keep them coming!
Was "6:10" on a tripod? Just curious, if you care to share.

Unfortunately, not sure you'll find Leica service, should you need it, much
faster...
Bob

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Mitch Zeissler <zeissler at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Bob Adler


In reply to: Message from zeissler at mac.com (Mitch Zeissler) ([Leica] Succumbed to the M 240 and my first posted images from it)