Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: >As the S2 is a medium format camera and landscape photography is really more >a medium format thing than 35 there's that. >But you being really a wildlife living in the landscape thing.... >But the S2 handling just like a 35 DSLR on one or two steroids. > >So far no lens is near long enough I'd think. > >I'm not remembering many wildlife shooters shooting Brownie film you'd think >645 might do it in the handling department but perhaps again the glass never >got long enough. Pretty much on the mark. The 350mm APO-Elmar-S on the S2 would give me an angle of view about like the 280mm APO on a 24x36mm camera. This is a wide-angle lens for me. I love the perspective the angle of view allows and it's about as short a lens as I can regularly use for wildlife. I looked into 645 several years ago and the long-lens situation was more unmanageable because 45x60 is bigger than the S2's 30x45. One problem still remains: the cost. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com