Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/11

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Subject: [Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!)
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:15:31 -0700
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that system costs joust about 70 for a camera and all the announced lenses,
add the other three and u r looking close to 100k, they were saying on cnn
over the weekend that kidneys cost 25 each

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
> >Having just read The Luminous Landscape blubs on Leicas
> >take no prisoners attack on the entire photo industry
> >one thing stood out in my mind.
> >That the size of the S2 is smaller than the D3x and Canon 1Ds Mk3
> >
> >The Leica S2 is a DSLR.
> >It just happens to be medium format and cost fortune.
> >And it just happens to blow the results obtained from the Nikon and Canons
> >away.
> >
>
> Having seen the preliminary S2 photos and the ratio of its size to output
> quality and DSLR handling and the no-nonsense user interface and what I've
> heard about the production camera's responsiveness and manual-focus-ability
> I'm completely smitten with it and wish they'd hurry up and get that 350mm
> APO-Elmar-S on the market.  Then I'll start selling kidneys on ebay.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!))
In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!))