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Subject: [Leica] Leica S2 visits Lambeau Field
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:18:26 -0400

It was Brad Pitt. And some one stole it. But it he got it back.
His  photo work though is serious and pretty impressive.


On 9/17/13 7:11 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> Whew!  I thought you might be considering it.  Nothing could replace your
> 280 f/4!!!  You deserve a Leica S and if karma really worked you would have
> one instead of Prince or whoever Leica's latest celebrity is.
> 
> Tina
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Doug Herr
> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote:
> 
>> Aram Langhans wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> But the good news is that you would break even??  No out of pocket???  
>>> And
>>> have new(er) equipment....
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> I recently calculated that if I sold all of my R equipment including 
>>>> both
>>>> the 280mm f/4 APO and the recent, hard-earned backup 280mm f/4 APO I
>> could
>>>> afford a well-used S2, an adapter for Contax 645 lenses, a Zeiss 350mm
>>>> Tele-Apotessar, extension tubes and a 1.4x Mutar.  It would do for 99%
>> of my
>>>> photos.  The other 1%  would be covered by a Zeiss Contax 645 120mm
>>>> APO-Makro-Planar.  I have to stop calculating such stuff.
>>> 
>> 
>> Yup, no out-of-pocket, Zeiss Contax 645 lenses are dirt cheap compared
>> with S lenses.  I'd have no backup equipment, and since it means selling
>> the 280mm f/4 APO it ain't gonna happen.
>> 
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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