[Leica] Any S2 experiences?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Yes indeed. Well not my words, naturally. It is a quote from Peter Karbe 
> who
> is of course the head of Leica's optical design department.
> The video interview with him is well worth watching, I think. The interview
> was by Micael Reichmann of Luminous Landscape fame. Actually his videos of
> his interview with Stefan Daniel and also the M9 assembly are very
> interesting as well, in my opinion.
> http://vimeo.com/6595625
> But just look at the MTF diagrams for a little insight. That's what you can
> do with Leica's level of expertise in optics and removing the constraint of
> the 35 mm format form factors, I guess.
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> On 14 March 2010 11:55, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote:
> 
>> Geoff,
>> 
>> That is an amazing statement about the lenses.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>> 
>>> I shot it just casually to fill a 4GB card over a long lunch with our
>>> Leica
>>> guy here.
>>> Its really well balanced in the hand and I thought it was quite small 
>>> like
>>> a
>>> 35mm dSLR or something.
>>> Actually I think it would be better with the additional vertical grip
>>> fitted
>>> which maybe shows my impression of the size.
>>>  Focus is via a single central AF crosshairs in the centre of the frame
>>> (lock and recompose).
>>> I found it responsive in focus and handling and of course the resolved
>>> detail is jawdropping.
>>>  According to Peter Karbe, the lenses are the best that Leica has ever
>>> made
>>> for any camera and will outresolve the next sensor generation in that 
>>> size
>>> as well.
>>> It costs a gazillion dollars.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 14 March 2010 11:36, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have S2 experiences to relate?
>>>> 
>>>> John Nebel
>>>> 
In Wetzlar in September 2006 he showed us a bunch of slides he's a pretty
good photographer he did the head shots of everybody at Leica and he kept
repeating amongst a highly technical speech how we should be shooting wide
open with our Leica glass like ALL the time!. I hope sombody talks to him
about that. A photojournist can do that most of the time but a commercial
photographer needs to get more than one thin sliver in focus for the bulk of
their shots.. I've been real fond of both f 5.6 and f8 for a long long time.
There have even been times... No I won't even say it.



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