Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/17

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Subject: [Leica] Leica S2 visits Lambeau Field
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:56:43 -0500
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On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Doug Herr wrote:

> I recently calculated that if I sold all of my R equipment including both 
> the 280mm f/4 APO and the recent, hard-earned backup 280mm f/4 APO I could 
> afford a well-used S2, an adapter for Contax 645 lenses, a Zeiss 350mm 
> Tele-Apotessar, extension tubes and a 1.4x Mutar.  It would do for 99% of 
> my photos.  The other 1%  would be covered by a Zeiss Contax 645 120mm 
> APO-Makro-Planar.  I have to stop calculating such stuff.

I wish you could rent the kit
and find out if the fantasy
synchs with reality.

As 35DSLR-like as it seems to be
I'd guess that Medium-Format idiosyncrasies
still show up;
resulting in a,
"wish I had the DMR/280 Apo on this trek."

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
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