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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Studio portrait with the S2
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:29:50 +0000
References: <CAE3QcF4D5TVkdpC5Lk-9XezrHkzUPCBXWnR3LNMuqwVu+yf5WA@mail.gmail.com> <6CEB9397-F8E1-47EC-8E6A-E7F48D78766E@cartersxrd.net>

Central Shutter (sort of leaf shutter), allows flash sync up to 1/1000th 
second for fill in flash but also works normally if wanted; back of the 
camera has choice of which shutter to use.

john

-----Original Message-----


what's different with CS lenses (like i'll ever need to know;^)

ric


> On Jan 24, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thank you to those few folks that took a look and commented on or off list.
> We had a lot of fun with this concept, the model is both pretty and a 
> lovely person to work with and our HMUA and Henna artist is wonderful. 
> The portraits are primarily for her portfolio in fact.
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/158919214
> 
> This is the main gallery from our shoot here. We came up with some fun 
> costumes for our boho/bellydancer theme.
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/kmtg
> 
> 
> The 2.5 120 lens is fabulous for portraits of course. I didn't get the 
> CS version in order to save some money. I do use that function a lot 
> with the standard 70 lens though.
> For outside location shoots, I have discovered the high speed sync 
> functions available with the dedicated flash gun. So that will be fun 
> to experiment with TTL and controlled fill there.
> 
> Almost everything I'm shooting now is with this system and it is 
> actually a little strange to use the M stuff now when I do!  Getting 
> close to 10,000 frames with the S2 now. Lots of work with it in my 
> galleries, anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 


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