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 p.438 #13 · Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread | |
Very nice Michael with the Sonnar - really like the first two a lot.
Ajay - I know that place  as I guess a couple others here on this thread do as well. Did you go in the store? Very nice from BMW Welt.
Luka, really like the first four and find the fourth one quite intriguing.
Ash, again, very nice!! What are you unhappy about with your processing?
zhangyue wrote:
Ron, Your post always contributes with good information. Look forward to see your work once your M9 come back. B.T.W, why you send your leica to Germany, I thought we have service center here in US?? Are you in Germany now? (I guess you are from your post) How long I should expecting a service without any bump/hit if the body works just fine right now?
As for NEX and GXR or Fiji Pro, I don’t know if it is just me: If I don’t have Leica, I will get them. With M9 on hand, I really have no passion to use them with my limited shooting time available. They are cheaper, but it will be waste without using them. I had NEX-c3, it is offer me experience of shooting in different angle with articulated LCD, (Leica can do that shooting from hip ‘blindly’) but I am really not big fun of it in terms of handling so that I put it on bay before its resale value drop like a M9
Don’t get me wrong, anything can make art/good foto in good photographer’s hand. I am purely gear talk now.
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Don't worry about your gear if it's working fine. 2-3 weeks for Leica USA is probably similar turnaround to what you would get from Nikon USA for non-NPS service.
I'm in Germany a few times a year and during my last visit I had Leica Germany calibrate the M9 with the 50 Lux, but unfortunately they didn't get it quite right and it threw off all my other lenses as a result. I had it done in Germany because Leica offers 2-day express or 5-day fast service options for the Euro zone at an additional fee, which Leica USA does not, to my knowledge. After the first service issue, Leica Germany suggested I could instead send the equipment to Leica USA, but because I use the camera for some of my work, it's difficult to be without it and my small Leica lens collection for a few weeks turnaround from Leica USA. There is also the matter of the cost of shipping over $15K replacement value in equipment from Canada to the USA. So it's actually worthwhile, at least for me in this case, to wait until I'm back in Germany to take advantage of the expedited service options. The issue wasn't to the point where the equipment was unusable. While the focus was off with certain lenses, I just needed to offset the rangefinder focus a specific amount for each lens to get correct focus, which I was able to determine pretty quickly with some test photos with the camera on a tripod. And because I primarily use the M9 with 50mm and wider, and often stopped down a bit, there is some leeway.
As for the NEX, GXR, XP1... They're good cameras. I'm very happy with images from the GXR in a general sense, but there is something different about the files from the M9. It's probably mostly due to the full frame sensor and the shallower depth of field for equivalent framing. And, as Luka has mentioned before, with APS-C you crop out the 'bad' outer image circle, but also crop out a lot of the character of those lenses... I plan to continue to use the GXR in conjunction with the M9 when it offers an advantage, such as silent shutter release, smaller size, etc.., but find the M9 a simpler, faster, more intuitive camera to use for the subject matter I photograph with it.
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