Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The first two prove that your wife was absolutely right from the start even if she tried to take a shortcut ;-) You deserve the camera! Excellent results, fresh compositions and masterly rendition. Great job indeed. Keep ticking, clicking and sharing Thanks Amities Philippe Le 16 f?vr. 14 ? 03:38, Mitch Zeissler a ?crit : > 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 One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. NO ARCHIVE