[Leica] S2 test

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> PMFJI but the Mamiya 210 f8 is designed for landscapes and has no 
> rangefinder
> coupling (the Mamiya 7 RF would probably be inadequate anyway) it is not a
> portrait lens, in any useful way.
> The 150 is fantastic, but the close focussing is not for head shots. I have
> used the Mamiya 7 for years hiking, since IMO it is the best MF camera for
> landscapes. This year it was replaced by the M8 for hiking.
> Perhaps I won't use it again.
> Frank


Amazing! A long distance tele lens with guess to matic focusing now that's
plain odd! And barely possible!
I take it all back I know nothing. Long glass for hiking landscapes?

A Carl Zeiss: Sonnar T* 4/180 CFE Lens is what %99.9 of any photographer I
know would use for the solution. Or a CFI lens or just CF.  for medium
format headshots for sure.
Its a marvel of cutting edge Zeiss optical design and engineering.
And the standard of the industry for decades until recently.
Now with a digital back as its probably a 1.5 crop they're using a 120 macro
if not the 100.

Of course this was way back when people used film and they cost real money.
Now that they're giving this glass away free in a box of cracker jacks its
just too easy - we must find something rare, expensive  and impossible to
maintain. Oh with all kinds of high tech stuff which never worked and is
unnecessary.

For any photographer I ever new this would be like a dream. To wake up and
have all the pricey primo Hassy stuff you could barely if ever afford
without a major loan selling for chump change. Where's that time machine
when you really need it?
The 180 lens you can buy now check google shopping new for 5 grand.
Used for 1 grand.
That new used price discrepancy those kinds of deals exist only with
Hasselblad; no other camera system.
Not Leica. Not Rollei. Not Linhof.



Mark William Rabiner