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: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:12:42 -0400
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Woohoo!!  I hope it's there.  We are usually at the NY Photo Expo but this
year we are in Maine, eating lobster.  I'd love to see that one printed
huge.

Tina

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Leica Users Group.
> > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> > >>
> > >
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> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>
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>


-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


In reply to: Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] New S lens)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] New S lens vs. Schneider Kreuznach tilt shift glass.)
Message from rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler) ([Leica] New S lens vs. Schneider Kreuznach tilt shift glass.)