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Marc – I agree with you in premise, but in practice, I'm not so sure. My first reaction was “hell yeah!”, then I started doing the math and to get a single HC lens up & running on the S2 is ~$4500 assuming ~$2500 for the typical used HC lens. Using Ebay as guide and my price shopping with a couple Leica stores here in the US, a used S lens is…[Read more]

I've been spending some time lately trying to improve my LR4 skills and stumbled upon a series of tutorials by George Jardine which I have found worthwhile (and reasonably priced). The guy really knows his stuff…

http://mulita.com/blog/?page_id=724

I think Leica just made it easier to decide on any dual system considerations.

The Hasselblad H and S2 became a no brainer the minute Leica announced the fully functional H to S adapter … be it a Hasselblad H systems camera, or a H1/H2/H2X with a Phase One back.

In effect, any pro or serious enthusiasts now has access to a back-up…[Read more]

And to follow up to my post above. I did finally look through an S2 (apologies to the lone salesperson at Photo Village – I must have looked disreputable, because he closed the outside door before he would unlock the glass case and kept his body between me and the exit the whole time I held the camera 🙂 ) Anyway, the viewfinder is amazingly good.…[Read more]

I've taken around 250 pix with S2 since the firmware update and haven't had the camera lock up.

Gérard — I am glad the advice worked for you! I have not used Capture One in a long time, but when I did use it, I never got along too well with it. It did have nice results, but I did not really like the workflow. I am quite glad Leica chose to work with Adobe, because like David says, they have a much larger resource of people, money and…[Read more]

I think this is pretty interesting too:

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/04/new-color-fringe-correction-controls.html

LR4.1 will introduce entirely new CA and fringing controls. I haven't tried it yet as I am skipping the RC (Release Candidate) and waiting for the full release. My entire catalog is in LR4 and I don't risk…[Read more]

gdb;2359 wrote:

Where can I find this information ?

Hi Gérard,

You will find the presets in this article.

I switched as well from C1 to LR and I think both programs has their pros and cons. As there is no choice when using the S2 it wasn't a big question for me. But today with LR4 you are ahead of C1. At least for now.…[Read more]

Hi David:

Please do publish your recommendations for S2 presets in LR 4.

Thanks

Hi David,

Thank you very much for taking time to help me. I appreciate very much. We do not know each other, as you live in Florida, which is quite far from the area of Chartres, where I live, a nice city 50 miles SW of Paris, France… But I can tell you that I have been reading your blog very often since I discovered it after Photokinas,…[Read more]

gdb;2357 wrote: Hi Pebbleplace,

The purple CA I posted came right after processing the original DNG in Capture One Pro.

I quite agree with your opinion Adobe's CA removal. Actually, I am a long time user of Capture One Pro, which I find the best (by far) for sharpness rendition and moiré correction. This was the time I used the R9/DMR…

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Hi Pebbleplace,

The purple CA I posted came right after processing the original DNG in Capture One Pro.

I quite agree with your opinion Adobe's CA removal. Actually, I am a long time user of Capture One Pro, which I find the best (by far) for sharpness rendition and moiré correction. This was the time I used the R9/DMR (with 7 wonderful…[Read more]

do your S2 hang after the last firmware-update? I had this during a shooting but it was quickly resoved by removing the batteries (not so fast when the grip is used)

David Farkas;2354 wrote: There is no loss of power on the SF58.

Thank you David. It was really just the (potential) loss of output power that worried me because on the Canon flashes (i.e. – 580EX), getting a respectable amount of outdoor flash in daylight conditions can be difficult with their high speed sync option, especially if used in…[Read more]

PebblePlace;2352 wrote: Hi David –

It's been a frustrating day… I've been using flashes on Canon gear for 10 years and feel competent with flashes. After 100 clicks and no joy with TTL and the S2 I was thoroughly stumped.

Perhaps I missed it, but I've read the S2 manual 2X, the SF-58 (found no mention of the S2 anywhere) and went to…

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Just to add info for the next person googling this topic…

I have a Phase One DF paired with a Phase One P65+, and now the S2. The handling between these two cameras is very different. The S2 is like a large dSLR and its viewfinder easily surpasses the Phase One DF in terms of brightness, perhaps size and clarity. To put this into…[Read more]

Hi David –

It's been a frustrating day… I've been using flashes on Canon gear for 10 years and feel competent with flashes. After 100 clicks and no joy with TTL and the S2 I was thoroughly stumped.

Perhaps I missed it, but I've read the S2 manual 2X, the SF-58 (found no mention of the S2 anywhere) and went to the Leica owners area to…[Read more]

While I have not seen that kind of color fringing from the S lenses, I would say that if you go into the manual corrections area and select “defringe” and then “all edges”, it should help with that. If that does not work, then doing a local selection on that area and desaturating it should work fairly well.

Hi Gérard –

Is purple CA before editing in CS6 or after editing in CS6? Also, do you use Lightroom as your raw editor? Lightroom v4.1 rc2 has the same Adobe Camera Raw module (version 7.1) built-in.

Thus far I have not been very impressed with Adobe's CA removal. The CA removal in Capture One is more effective are in most cases…[Read more]