[Leica] Fuji v Leica, and Alamy

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I can not keep track of all these cameras as to what is what so the first
thing I do is do a Bing search for Fujifilm X-Pro1 Mirrorless Digital Camera
(Body Only)  and I get $499.00 at B&H and its not clear if its new or used I
think its new when I look further I see that in 2012 when it came out it was
selling for $1200. And its a  cropped format camera. This is a camera which
compares with a full frame Leica M camera body how? Do we blur our eyes and
pretending we are looking at the same thing here?
This is a camera obviously marketed to the the mass hipster market for
people who want to pretend they are doing a Leica thing at a fraction of the
cost as it looks good around your neck walking down the street.  And as a
cropped camera its apples and oranges.
It's suspension of disbelief folks. A shell game. Story time. Here on the
LUG we should know better.


On 4/23/16 6:19 AM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gerry -

I have had exactly the same experience with Alamy and Fuji and
> quickly
switched back to Leica only.  It does make a huge
> difference.

Tina

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Gerry Walden
> <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
wrote:

> As most of you will know i was a Fuji
> X-World photographer shooting with
> two  X-Pro1s and a variety of lenses, and
> I was fairly happy. However in
> July last year I moved back to Leica after
> about 13 years and purchased a
> used M9. I had shot with Leica Ms for many
> years but changed when I made
> the decision to go digital, and Leica simply
> did not have a digital body,
> and appeared to have no intention of producing
> one. It cost me a lot of
> money to switch back but I was rapidly approaching
> 70 and decided if I
> couldn?t have what I wanted at my age it was a sad
> world!
>
> I have submitted to Alamy for many years, and have around 4,000
> images
> with them. I am always very careful about quality when I submit
> because
> they are pretty fussy, but I found that I was only getting about a
> 50%
> acceptance rate with the Fuji cameras, and could never work out why.
> The
> images looked fine to me on the screen. It was a real problem.
>
> I
> have now made 17 submissions using Leica images, and have not had a
> single
> failure! That makes the change really worthwhile. Others will say
> ?Of
> course, you should have known? but I would never have thought it would
> be
> that obvious!
>
> Gerry
>
>
> Gerry Walden LRPS
> www.gwpics.com
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> 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
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