[Leica] IMG: Studio portrait with the S2

[John McMaster]

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

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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
>