Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/29

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Subject: [Leica] New S lens vs. Schneider Kreuznach tilt shift glass.
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:10:30 -0400

Great shot Bob but no I'm not going back!

The weather report today is:
YES!!!

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:44:55 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New S lens vs. Schneider Kreuznach tilt shift glass.
> 
> Mark,
> If you go by the Digital Transitions booth, I think they may be using my
> photo:
> http://www.rgaphoto.com/benches/content/Bench_View_Pano_Crop_large.html
> Let me know if you see it!!
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
> rabinergroup.com>wrote:
> 
>> I played with these yesterday. Or watched the guy show them too me at
>> Photoexpo. I'm not going today the snow is falling today the size of small
>> gerbils.
>> 
>> https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogSubCategoryDisplay.aspx?CID
>> =1822  or
>> http://tinyurl.com/4ynsxqr
>> 
>> I've never seen anything more gorgeous with this blue trim they have on 
>> it.
>> Schneider Kreuznach.
>> 
>> Their 120 5.6 fits on your Mamiya phase 1 camera and only cost
>> $5,657.00. I'd have guessed 10.
>> 
>> They have a 90mm 4.5 for your nikon for only $3,962.00 EA
>> I guess EA does not really stand for "each".
>> 
>> https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=1822&II
>> D=8295
>> because the JSK optics which are one of the very few sources to give Leica
>> glass a run for their money they turn your camera, full frame or medium
>> format or cropped into a view camera with a large range of tilt shifts.
>> 
>> And while 3 to 5 thousand dollars makes a Nikon Canon user blanch a Mamiya
>> user ever this is what a Leica user of today spends on his starter slow
>> normal lens. Chump change.
>> 
>> A good way to class up my Lowly Nikon D700. I saw on on a D3.
>> 
>> 
>> A direct comparison between a Mamiya/phase1 with theses new lenses and the
>> S2 glass would not be direct as the guy reminds me.
>> Becuae as should be quite obvious we're not comparing glass. We're
>> comparing
>> whole systems.
>> But I have no problem with comparing whole systems.
>> Because when I win the lottery or start knocking off banks the system I
>> could get into could be Phase 1 with the blue glass.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Mark R.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:19:34 +1000
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New S lens
>>> 
>>> Aah so they are identical, apart from the whole being completely
>> different
>>> thing ;-)
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> 
>>> *Lighting- eyes- action*
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 29 October 2011 12:24, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> One is 3:2 and the other is 4:3 ratio......
>>>> 
>>>> john
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The sensor size is the same as the S2. In fact, I believe they are the
>> same
>>>> sensor.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
> 
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