Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search](or four people if you've an interest in photographing surviving donors) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: > > On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:15 PM, mehrdad wrote: > >> that system costs joust about 70 for a camera and all the >> announced lenses, >> add the other three and u r looking close to 100k, they were >> saying on cnn >> over the weekend that kidneys cost 25 each > > > that's one system for every two people, > > trust me I'm a doctor, > > > :-) > > > Steve > > >> >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Doug Herr >> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote: >> >>> Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>>> Having just read The Luminous Landscape blubs on Leicas >>>> take no prisoners attack on the entire photo industry >>>> one thing stood out in my mind. >>>> That the size of the S2 is smaller than the D3x and Canon 1Ds Mk3 >>>> >>>> The Leica S2 is a DSLR. >>>> It just happens to be medium format and cost fortune. >>>> And it just happens to blow the results obtained from the Nikon >>>> and Canons >>>> away. >>>> >>> >>> Having seen the preliminary S2 photos and the ratio of its size >>> to output >>> quality and DSLR handling and the no-nonsense user interface and >>> what I've >>> heard about the production camera's responsiveness and manual- >>> focus-ability >>> I'm completely smitten with it and wish they'd hurry up and get >>> that 350mm >>> APO-Elmar-S on the market. Then I'll start selling kidneys on ebay. >>> >>> Doug Herr >>> Birdman of Sacramento >>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------- >> regards, mehrdad >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information