Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad