Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My $0.02 Why would a Industrial customer ( including a magazine) want superb image quality when the images to be printed, in a magazine or newspaper, are 8x11? Or even 17x11 ( double page spread) ? Good enough is good enough.... and spending more on something no one can see nor the printer can print is downright wasteful. Corporations are not into waste. Portrait Pros? How many portraits ( % of the total portrait market, including wedding ) go bigger than 8x10/11x14 and demand quality above the big time Canon or Nikon cameras? Not much. ( I will not mention the fact that for really great, really HIGH end photography, there still is Film in sizes to 11x14...... ). I think that the market for the S2 is only one.... well heeled amateurs. And Leica is going after them.......... All the hoopla about extra superb image quality is probably true, and the Pro attitude is to convince amateurs that they can achieve that "quality of a Pro" by using the S2. All of which may be true. But to be really true, the Pros would NEED to use the S2 in their jobs. I doubt it.... We have a bunch of pros on this list.... how many of you NEED to use the top rated Hasselblad or Sinar, or whatever cameras to produce images your customer base requires? Canon and Leica DMR or M8 and Nikon need not respond...... you are the "normal" quality...... The difference is perception vs need. Pros... how about a reasonable assessment of your customer base......?????? Need or perception? What percentage demand quality above all else? Cost be of secondary importance..........by far...... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net Steve , in my opinion, the purpose of the S2 is to offer a superb medium format LEICA system at the top of the quality tree for pros.