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There's enough DOF that it would be difficult to know from this example. Good composition anyway – you got the Kodak Moment.

Marc, with regards to your S' repairs, you might try a new Type 006. There are some good deals on new bodies and it comes with a 3 year warranty. I find the AF markedly better. The S2 was accurate, but mine hunted and stalled alot. The Type 006 is much better – even with the 120S. Also, at ISO 100 the noise pitch is less. It's not…[Read more]

I've been going back and forth with my friend Dave McRitchie and his tech guy Chris Valites at Capture Integration on this issue and doing a little testing myself. Turns out that the flash duration of the pack has quite a bit to do with whether you can sync at higher shutter speeds. With my new Broncolor Move 1200 pack the flash duration is so…[Read more]

Apparently those pining for a S f/2 portrait lens won't have to wait long.

Lightroom 5.5 now has a lens profile for a Leica SUMMICRON-S 1:2.0/100mm. A portend of what is to come at Photokina?

Can't imagine what that is going to cost, especially in CS version that I'd demand. At F/2 it will be the fastest S lens, and the DOF will probably…[Read more]

Dear Jack,

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Here you can find the app’s more than 40 features: http://www.artistsviewfinder.com/features/…[Read more]

ISO160, Manual Exposure, 4 Stops down- equivalent of ISO2500. Minolta 50/1.4 MC mount lens, RF converted,

skate4_ISO2500 by fiftyonepointsix, on Flickr

David K … have you thought about using the AIR transmitter, and an AIR receiver unit plugged in to your Broncolor pack? While it won't allow adjustment of levels like with a Profoto AIR pack, it'll trigger it from great distances without the hard-wire limitations.

You wouldn't need the more expensive AIR radio units with level controls,…[Read more]

Cool – I was wondering if it was listed 5.4 and I just hadn't noticed.

I decided to pull out all the Leica S lens entries to see if there was a pattern to the date string. The date string appears to be a serial number and lenses are added/updated in batches. Each lens does NOT have its own unique date stamp. Leica R and M lenses shared the…[Read more]

On the subject of S glass,If there is another accessory I would like to see its a 2nd S rolling case that could take the S24mm,the Zoom and the new 100mm and extra batteries and CF cards…

i have the current case and its great but only holds 5 lenses and even if you wanted to leave a couple behind you still couldnt fit the Zoom or 24mm in..

Can the Profoto Airsync be used to trigger an external SF58 flash at 1/1000s ?
(1 transmitter on the S2 with CS lens and 1 receiver connected to some sort of hot shoe with mini jack f.i. and plugged to the SF58 in manual mode) :confused:

My laptop lightroom version was 5.4. No 100mm Summicron listed.
I've just updated to 5.5 and the 100mm is now listed.
This is definitively new 😎

peterv;8506 wrote: Impressive test results, Rob! I would not have expected the difference between these two lenses to be that obvious.

Peter I have a few HC lenses,I will probably sell them,the S lenses are a step up,no doubt about that.. The blad lenses work pretty well when stepped down to be fair,but DAC is more important for HC IQ…[Read more]

This is a great addition to the line up,hopefully it has fast focusing,at least as fast as the 70 and 180,there would certainly be a CS version i the works..

Only glass missing now is a wide TS and something longer than 180..

Rob

Hi Doug – it takes some digging, but if we go back to the Leica S2 introduction when Leica was first talking about the lens line-up, the 100/2 was pictured. The 100/2 appeared to be sized larger than the 70S, but definitely shorter than the 120S. The lens barrel shapes shown in this old picture have changed, so the 100mm shown here may not be…[Read more]

Impressive test results, Rob! I would not have expected the difference between these two lenses to be that obvious.

David K;8488 wrote: And while I'm not thrilled about having a nearly new lens fail there's still no other camera system, irrespective of cost, that I'd rather have.

The same goes for me, David. I just downloaded 125 new photos I took with the 70 mm (the only lens I have now that the 120 is back to Leica for repair) and the IQ is just so…[Read more]

Interesting find! I would have thought there'd be a CS version too, especially at this (portrait) focal length.

Photokina only 2 months away 🙂

Ha! Well well, is this prophetic? I had to check LR5.5 myself and indeed it's listed. This may get interesting.

I've been using a 100mm f/4 Pentax and like this angle of view. But I expect an f/2 lens would be just a bit larger…

I digress but I was curious about how the S120mm compares to the HC120mm mk2 ,the parameters were tightly controlled and these are wide open shots..(this is @100%)

But the image speaks for itself..

Rob

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Jack,

Thanks for the review and pictures! You're helping to convince me to buy one of these though I'm afraid that ship has sailed! 😀 I like what I'm seeing from David, you and other forums members. However I may wait for an updated “snap”! Now if they'll only produce enough cameras to ship!

Thanks again and do feel free to add…[Read more]