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Subject: [Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!)
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:24:36 -0700
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On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:15 PM, mehrdad wrote:

> 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


that's one system for every two people,

trust me I'm a doctor,


:-)


Steve


>
> 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 imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!))
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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!))
Message from msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad) ([Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!))