[Leica] S2 vs. 645D

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

That way of thinking leads to madness!

$13K for H4D-31, but hey
$13K for a P40+, and "only" $5K more to get an Alpa and a good lens!
But hey,
$18K, may as well pay another $4K for the S2 body and what's another $4K
for a lens?

But wait... $26K? You can get a P65+ and another $5K for an Alpa with a
good lens!
$31K? Chump change. Now you can get a S2P setup!

Or wait, $31K + $8K gets you the ULTIMATE IQ180. Who doesn't want THAT?
Another $15K gets you the ultimate ultimate Alpa with 3 lens setup.

So now we are looking at $52K.

All because $13K is just $2K more than $11K.

AND NOT a single photo has been taken.


On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:10 PM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote:

> If I was going to spend $11K on a digital MF camera I would spend another
> $2k and get the Hasselblad H4D-31.
>
> Gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 11:26:29 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 vs. 645D
>
> The genesis of the camera seems to be that Pentax finally finished it so
> that it can make the company more appealing to Hoya, but then it got wildly
> popular (well, wildly is a relative term in medium format world). Now
> another owner later, they are certainly taking their time releasing new
> lens. There is one wide lens already: 25mm which is even wider than the new
> Leica S2 35mm but one will have to make do with the older 645 or 6x7 lens
> in the mean time. The performance varies so you may have to try several
> lens to get one that performs well, but they are dirt cheap though,
> relatively speaking.
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:12 PM, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz
> >wrote:
>
> > Pentax don't seem to be rushing out new/wider lenses for it, not sure
> > (either way) of the quality of the lenses from the film days.
> >
> > john
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> >
> > If I can finagled $11K, I'd buy the Pentax 645D in a heartbeat. \
> >
> >
> >
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