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Hi, my nearest S dealer is many hundreds of miles away and there is no local exposure /knowledge on S at all (only 4 million people in my state and I think just 2 or 3 actual dealers in a country of 22 million people). It's hard enough with the M system which I am now using.
Can anyone provide or point me to detail on the changes to the AF…[Read more]

David Farkas;3829 wrote: The two new lenses were/are slated to be released in December. With the Holidays coming up, I'm assuming that means early January.

Thanks David.

Just wonder why the Holidays (i.e., Christmas–sorry but that's what it is) would delay it to January? The date of the Christmas was know when the anouncment was…[Read more]

GMB;3828 wrote: Does anyone know when these two lenses will be available and, more importantly, have a link to a “test”. I thought they should have been delivered in November but may be wrong.

The two new lenses were/are slated to be released in December. With the Holidays coming up, I'm assuming that means early January.

Thanks mark for the info … Ill keep and eye on that .

Thanks guys! I admit to being on a crusade regarding working with lights and the S2. Or, I should say, explore the possibilities with a tool that is more than qualified.

While is certainly isn't everyone's cup of tea, it can expand usage of this wonderful tool and open up the creative possibilities more fully.

The trick is using just…[Read more]

Marc, thank you so much for the detailed explanations. Very helpful.

For what it's worth, Leica has new version of its shuttle software for shooting tethered which should be released soon. I saw it in action at the Leica studio event at PhotoPlus about a month ago. I don't know when it will be available for S2 owners to download and I don't know if it offers any performance improvement over the current version.…[Read more]

Marc,
Great instructional posts with fantastic examples! You really show what is possible with the small strobes that most users buy and what can be done with the pro level strobes.

-Al

Below is how I most frequently use an off-camera KEY light, and a speed-light for fill:

The SF58 can be used directly in the hot-shoe and kept in HSS-TTL mode if you connect a radio sender via a sync cord to the S2's PC outlet on the side of the camera.

To accommodate this I place the S2 on a Kirk grip that has a 1/4″ tread on top of…[Read more]

It takes about five minutes to get the M9 sensor perfectly clean. First I vacuum it with the Green clean vacuum cleaner, then I swipe it (if needed) with the wet and dry swabs by Green Clean. For the odd oily drop (very rare) I use Smear Away by visible Dust.
Spotless – and I check it under a surgical operating microscope.
Those commercial…[Read more]

It seems many Monochrome users have a need to write down their impressions. I put a little article in Theme Magazine, despite being on the learning curve with this superb tool.
http://the.me/henri-in-africa-the-leica-monochrom-as-a-travel-camera/

Jaap

I'm back!

Okay, here is a demo of using the Phottix Stratos-II Nikon Transmitter in the S2 hot-shoe with a SF-58 set to A then mounted on top of the Stratos-II. Plus another SF-58 off-camera set to A mounted on a Stratos-II Nikon Receiver that's in the SF-58 supplied stand-foot.

Top image shows the on-camera SF-58 shut off to evaluate…[Read more]

If I may offer a few suggestions:

Forget about using the SF58 in slave mode. It is an inferred trigger and quite unreliable like most line-of-sight flash trigger systems (which is why Canon has finally brought out a self-contained radio based speed-light system).

Not to mention what a huge trial-and-error PITA it is to balance out…[Read more]

stephan;3719 wrote: sorry to say that, but in my opinion this is the worst of both worlds (exept you have still some R-glass and didn't find another way to use them).

If I see some (limited) use using longer R-lenses on the M, I really doubt if this makes a sense for wide angle and zooms (again, the longer zooms may be an option).

The M…

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I agree Stuart. Leica has always handled my few equipment issues very fairly. I can honestly say, I will continue to be a Leica customer largely because the manner in which they have resolved issues and treated me over the years. A company can make the best products in the world, but that is worthless to me if they don't stand behind it.…[Read more]

Well, I finally got a response on my lens (my local dealer works via a distributor in another country, so it took much longer than normal to get this organized…I will be sending it direct from now on), and Leica said that there was something wrong with it, and they were replacing it. So we'll see. I will get the replacement by Wednesday, I hope.…[Read more]

David Farkas;3387 wrote: Sadly, no one knew when Leica would provide a solution to use R lenses or what that solution would ultimately look like. You can always buy some R lenses back…. 😉

David,

What frustrates me was I offered it after searching for options, and within months of all my inquiries and selling the R lenses, they…[Read more]

erlingmm;3796 wrote: I contacted Leica Norway, and they advised me to try M, but could not give a detailed answer. But if you have one SF58 you can test if it fires in TTL mode? Mine does not.

This is correct. The SF 58 won't fire in TTL on the S2, only TTL-HSS.

Have you tried A mode yet? I'm not sure if each flash will self-meter, but…[Read more]

stephan;3792 wrote: I've seen allready your thread in the LFI, I'm almost sure that there should be a way to use multple SF58 in TTL – mode (TTL HSS is almost the same just for different purposes/shutter speeds) when you set one as master and the other as slave.

As I just have one SF58 i cannot test it myself but there should be a way to do…

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