[Leica] S2 Lenses MTF & Resolutions

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At 12:34 AM 12/21/2008, you wrote:
>Serious Architectural Photogs would need PC movements to capture the image.
>
>There is/was only 2 Hasselblad cameras that have perspective control
>capabilities.....  FlexBody and ArcBody.  Both were discontinued.  Both
>behaved just like view cameras.  ( slow and slower).
>
>Frank Filippone

Hasselblad announced tilt-shift lenses for their H3DII at Photokina 
and a view camera adapter back for it.  ASMP has some very prominent 
architectural photographers on the mailing list and they use mostly 
Hasselblads - some use the Phase One and some use Linhof view camera 
backs.  I still think those photographers are potential markets for 
the S2.   But even more would be fashion photographers who need the 
high quality, large file sizes plus the mobility of the S2.  Studio 
photographers who do advertising for automobiles (that market may be 
down!) and slick glossy two-page ads for magazines, etc.  I get many 
stock requests that say medium format or larger only.

I don't know any amateurs well-heeled enough to spend $30,000 on a 
body and $15,000 on a lens.  I must travel in the wrong crowd!

Tina

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