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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 14:38:22 -0700
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On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:34 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> (or four people
> if you've an interest
> in photographing
> surviving
> donors)

are you a lawyer?


:-)

Steve




>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> -------------------------------------
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>>>
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Replies: Reply from topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan) ([Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!))
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