Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quote from the S2 website: "The dedicated lens correction profiles computed by Leica for both programs* help photographers to achieve maximum performance from the H lenses." *Lightroom and Adobe Raw So Leica emulated what Phocus does for the Hasselblad lenses. Cheers Douglas On 18.05.2012 01:14, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Yes I just read that since posting as well. Perhaps there is no patent > applicable on the H mount then? (as with the M) I imagined that you > couldn't reverse engineer the electrical interface part of the mount > without permission. Apparently not! Consistent with the no love lost > relationship with Hasselblad then. > > Just interesting in passing for me. If I could justify buying an S2 it > would be to use the S lenses naturally. But I guess the adaptor may attract > owners of current sytems to buy the S2 body and probably more likely helps > compensate S owners for the delays in getting the Central Shutter versions > of the S lenses to market. I did read they have got that shutter sorted out > now with their own native design (and synch is up to 1,000th too). > > Cheers, > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > On 18 May 2012 08:36, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net< > wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >> But Hasselblad cooperated with Leica Camera so that this adaptor could be >> marketed, presumably. You can't just pick up a modern, electronic mount >> design like that and copy it without permission/payment. I was really >> surprised >> <<< >> >> As I understand it Leica reverse-engineered the Hassleblad electronic >> language after repeated attempts to get Hassleblad's cooperation were met >> with silence. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> mail2web.com ? What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? >> http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >