Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] the new Noctilux 0.95 ASPH ...a blog
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:59:47 +0800
References: <C643759A.4F0BA%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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
>>
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THEIN Onn Ming
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