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Thanks David, I'm happy for Leica that they were able to accumulate so much knowledge about building sensors that work quite well with their M lenses. I don't have an M anymore so I don't follow the M-line as closely as I did in the past, but I thought there are still some problems not completely solved with the CMOSIS sensor, like magenta corners…[Read more]

peterv;8441 wrote: Yes, Sony said some time ago that they wanted to be disruptive and innovative. I welcome that, but for us poor guys and girls who've invested in an interchangeable lens system, a curved sensor is most likely not going to be in the cards. Though I wouldn't mind a pocket-sized MF RX1…

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The camera has now been sold, and I netted $5400 from the original price of $8000. So I netted (after shipping etc.) $12500 from the original $18945, or 66 percent. I think the resale on the Noctilux would have been much greater if I had waited for the current production stock to dry up. That could possibly apply to the camera as well, but only…[Read more]

Yes, Sony said some time ago that they wanted to be disruptive and innovative. I welcome that, but for us poor guys and girls who've invested in an interchangeable lens system, a curved sensor is most likely not going to be in the cards. Though I wouldn't mind a pocket-sized MF RX1…[Read more]

Wow. If another one of equal quality comes open at that price, I'd jump on it immediately.

This lens has been sold, thanks. I got $7250 minus $150 shipping and insurance for a net of $7100 against my purchase price of $11000. Based on the responses I got from 4 ads over the past couple months (one only), the resale value was less than expected.

Is this still available? If so, please PM me.

peterv;8431 wrote: Thanks for that link Rob, interesting stuff. I passed it along to a friend of mine who's going to shoot his new film in 3D, next month. He'll be shooting on Reds, I guess IMAX 3D is going to be big budget Hollywood movies only.

Anyway, on a new Leica S, it's interesting that there are absolutely no rumours yet. With…

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peterv;8431 wrote: …why the $5.000 rebate?

To keep the flock in the family?

Worked for me….

Bob

fotografz;8430 wrote: I'd still like to know how the S2 generates the redundant jpeg for the SD card.

My guess would be both the DNG and JPG are derived from the image in the buffer. It makes no sense to first write the DNG to the card, then read it again, let the image processor chew on it, and only then write the JPG.

Whether the…[Read more]

Thanks for that link Rob, interesting stuff. I passed it along to a friend of mine who's going to shoot his new film in 3D, next month. He'll be shooting on Reds, I guess IMAX 3D is going to be big budget Hollywood movies only.

Anyway, on a new Leica S, it's interesting that there are absolutely no rumours yet. With Photokina less then three…[Read more]

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LC Technologies was able to recover all the missing files.

While other recovery programs may have been able to do it, I just could not chance it … so I opted to send it off to the professionals and pay for the recovery in case it was a more difficult issue than I could deal with. They have the ability to crack open the CF card a…[Read more]

peterv;5826 wrote: Exactly, there seems to be a trend towards larger sensors in video/digital cinema:

… Panavision unveiled a prototype for a digital camera that will have a sensor equivalent to 70mm…

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/red-epic-dragon-arri-alexa-sony-f55-f65-panavision-70mm-camera/

The diagonal of ‘regular' 65 mm…

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This is the installation of nine of the 16″x24″ prints by Joe Donovan. in a 3 X 3 matrix.
The client clearly has a very modern loft type house, that is built on top of a seven story condo in the 3rd Ward and wanted very industrial looking photos to compliment the neighborhood. Lots of curves in this loft, so they chose lots of curves in the…[Read more]

This 3rd ward series has progressed over the last year.
Here are a few more shots. They are all now B&W

There is now a home for this series. Joe Donovan printed the entire series 24″x16″.
Some of which were then framed and arranged in a 3 X 3 matrix ( three triptychs )
The result will be shown in my next posting

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Just as a “for what it's worth” note, I recently had occasion to shoot with the Contax 350 APO Tessar on my S2 P and found the image quality to easily be the equal of more modern lenses but the auto focus was a bit slow. In truth, I ended up using it as a manual focus system and was quite pleased with the results. Until Leica comes forth with…[Read more]

These are great images, thanks for sharing. My wife and I are going to be visting the Wiliamette Valley wineries and then traveling up the Olympic Penninsula into Seattle this fall with my S2 kit in tow and I do hope to be able to capture some similar shots.

Marc,
As I had in my S also the SD card, the photos were there as JPG's. Not good.

There was also one curiosity. While photographing there came suddenly an announcement in the back LCD that there is no CF card inside and that parallel is changed to sequential. This has happened every time also in my earlier CF cards.

So my old SD…[Read more]

Canceling this post and replacing with separate posts for camera and lens.

Some of you guys might find this interesting,it's a review of the 30-90 by Niel Morley ..

http://nielmorley.blogspot.com/2013/09/leica-vario-elmar-s-3090-mm-f3556-asph.html