Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/17

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Subject: [Leica] S2 / H System Lens adapter....
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 01:21:07 +0200
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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
>>
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