Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now if only they'd drop the price a bit... On May 28, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I know David from two Leica Historical Society of America meetings > I've hung > out with him, spoken with him, shot with him and and farily > extensively. And > he's shown me his work on his laptop. > > With the D3x dwarfing the S in size and the S dwarfing the D3x and > other so > called super full frame cameras in format they might have a real > coup d'etat > on their hands in the photo world though of course the S dwarfs the > D3x in > price making it much more of a rental than a buyer. > The issue might turn out to be how much does truer medium format > results > dwarf the results of niche format Leica S. and for practical > purposes it may > turn out to be for many uses not that much of an edge in image > quality. > > I have to say that holding an S camera in my hands and shot with it > for five > minutes, Dr Andreas Kaufmann handed one to me at a Bloomingdales > Leica bash, > you know you are awesomely enabled. If a helicopter flew by you > know you > could easily take it down. And the image quality edge of Hassy H and V > better be great as I'm sure the S camera can shoot rings around it > from a > speed and spontaneity aspect. > The Hassy's are known to be a but frustratingly slow. > They could fix that next year though. with inspiration from Leica. > Call it a > kick in the pants. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:54:36 -0700 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] the new Noctilux 0.95 ASPH ...a blog >> >> I am looking forward to the Nokton, on a proper Leica FULL Frame >> body, like >> Mark likes to say :-) >> >> Scrolling lower on the blog - look at the size of the S2 comparing >> to the >> D3!!! >> >> >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc at cox.net> >> wrote: >> >>> http://dfarkas.blogspot.com/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com >> // w: http://www.rfman.com >> // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein