Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great shot Bob but no I'm not going back! The weather report today is: YES!!! -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:44:55 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New S lens vs. Schneider Kreuznach tilt shift glass. > > Mark, > If you go by the Digital Transitions booth, I think they may be using my > photo: > http://www.rgaphoto.com/benches/content/Bench_View_Pano_Crop_large.html > Let me know if you see it!! > Thanks, > Bob > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at > rabinergroup.com>wrote: > >> I played with these yesterday. Or watched the guy show them too me at >> Photoexpo. I'm not going today the snow is falling today the size of small >> gerbils. >> >> https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogSubCategoryDisplay.aspx?CID >> =1822 or >> http://tinyurl.com/4ynsxqr >> >> I've never seen anything more gorgeous with this blue trim they have on >> it. >> Schneider Kreuznach. >> >> Their 120 5.6 fits on your Mamiya phase 1 camera and only cost >> $5,657.00. I'd have guessed 10. >> >> They have a 90mm 4.5 for your nikon for only $3,962.00 EA >> I guess EA does not really stand for "each". >> >> https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=1822&II >> D=8295 >> because the JSK optics which are one of the very few sources to give Leica >> glass a run for their money they turn your camera, full frame or medium >> format or cropped into a view camera with a large range of tilt shifts. >> >> And while 3 to 5 thousand dollars makes a Nikon Canon user blanch a Mamiya >> user ever this is what a Leica user of today spends on his starter slow >> normal lens. Chump change. >> >> A good way to class up my Lowly Nikon D700. I saw on on a D3. >> >> >> A direct comparison between a Mamiya/phase1 with theses new lenses and the >> S2 glass would not be direct as the guy reminds me. >> Becuae as should be quite obvious we're not comparing glass. We're >> comparing >> whole systems. >> But I have no problem with comparing whole systems. >> Because when I win the lottery or start knocking off banks the system I >> could get into could be Phase 1 with the blue glass. >> >> >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >>> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:19:34 +1000 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New S lens >>> >>> Aah so they are identical, apart from the whole being completely >> different >>> thing ;-) >>> >>> Cheers >>> Geoff >>> >>> *Lighting- eyes- action* >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >>> >>> >>> >>> On 29 October 2011 12:24, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >>> >>>> One is 3:2 and the other is 4:3 ratio...... >>>> >>>> john >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> >>>> >>>> The sensor size is the same as the S2. In fact, I believe they are the >> same >>>> sensor. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Bob Adler > Palo Alto, CA > http://www.rgaphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information