Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] New camera works
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 20:23:10 +1000
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Tell me about it, A bit insane!  I even finished the shoot more than an
hour early but I was shooting for about 8 hrs.


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 13 July 2014 20:05, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Who is going to edit 2000 images from one day's shoot? I have a hard time
> going through 100.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> On 13 Jul 2014, at 10:47, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Possibly a drive by gloat ;-)
> > I had two photoshoots today, the bulk of which were fashion for a young
> > edgier label.
> > Thanks to some excellent support by Leica here I managed to get a
> standard
> > lens for my second hand S2 very quickly. The camera worked perfectly
> > whichever I did my part and I'm very happy to say that we got through
> about
> > a thousand frames with it.  Not a bad start with a camera hat has done
> > about 1500 frames in the first two years of its life. I did find it easy
> to
> > saturate the 1GB buffer working at a fast rate, something that is
> > impossible to do with the M (the S2 about like the M9 in that regard but
> > with bigger files of course). I was using my M as well which means about
> > another 1,000 frames. Quite extraordinary. Now there will be a looong
> > period of just copying the files into my computer, all 126GB of them!
> Could
> > not have done it with film!
> > First looks soon.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
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In reply to: Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] New camera works)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] New camera works)