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The Leica was designed for hand-held use. Leica lenses are designed for brilliance and lovely tonal quality above all, rather than extremely high resolution. Why? It is because resolution of the finest details can be lost with very slight camera movement anyway (hand-held, remember?) but the brilliance and ‘glow' for which Leica lenses are famous…[Read more]

Are you actually serious? You wear a photo vest?

Jack MacD;1758 wrote: Very interesting essay in Luminous Landscape that discusses photography and also the value of medium format camera regardless of the size of the print. The author is an S shooter.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/understanding-series/everything_matters__it_is_all_about_the_small_details.shtml

Not sure if this link…

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Super Light Rain Gear for Photographers:

Back on the fall S2 trip with D Farkas and crew, we were shooting in pretty heavy rain one day. If one is spending money for an S2 water resistant camera, one can justify spending a fraction of that on a jacket that keeps the photographer dry.

On that trip, I had brought along a heavy rain parka…[Read more]

c.poulton;2054 wrote: I've been a film shooter all my life 🙂 and I don't see any reason why I should move over to digital. In fact I love film and will continue to shoot with it for as long as I can get rolls of the stuff and process them.

Same here.

Currently shooting with the following:

2 Leicaflex SL2 bodies, 8…[Read more]

I've been a film shooter all my life 🙂 and I don't see any reason why I should move over to digital. In fact I love film and will continue to shoot with it for as long as I can get rolls of the stuff and process them.

Currently shooting with the following:
Leica m2
Yashica Electro GT
Olympus XA
Chinon CE4

Hopefully these issues will be addressed very shortly in LR 4.1

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_4_update_from_the_team_update_scheduled_for_this_week

Okay, so I did a little bit more testing. First I took a batch of ten S2 files (all different real-life images) and processed them in LR 3.6 with my standard S2 preset. Ten images exported to 1000px wide JPG, quality 90 with screen sharpening took 38 seconds. I then ran the exact same images through LR4 two ways. The first was without adjustments,…[Read more]

About 1min 15 secs for the same number of images with the same settings. The problem manifested itself for me when I needed to process a few hundred images for upload to the web so the client could make selections. That process took well over half an hour which seemed awfully slow. But at 7.5 secs per image…it makes sense.

David K;2044 wrote: Al, the performance issues for LR 4 are apparently very common. I'm sure that Adobe will address them…just a question of how soon. You can download the free trial and see if you have problems on your machine. I'm still using it for adjustments but the slowness in exports is annoying. And I don't need any excuses to enjoy a…

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Al, the performance issues for LR 4 are apparently very common. I'm sure that Adobe will address them…just a question of how soon. You can download the free trial and see if you have problems on your machine. I'm still using it for adjustments but the slowness in exports is annoying. And I don't need any excuses to enjoy a good…[Read more]

Field test was positive. Obviously, carrying an S2, 3 lenses, a bit RRS tripod and an Arca d4 hear is not really a pleasure, but the backpack made it bearable.

David–Again many thanks for the tip.

Georg

Thanks Mark, David and Tom. I am not sure how many S2 shots were submitted but I know for sure that I hAVE seen many here and elsewhere that would have deserved to be in the book.

Georg

Your example is impressive in illustrating the benefit of this new feature. Thank you for showing us Jack.

David,
Are you running it in 64bit mode? Does seem odd that a simple process should take so long. Good excuse for a cool beer or a mojito I guess. 😎

Hey one and all. I'm new to the forum but have been a leica for the past year and a lover of film photography for over a decade now, though I've had a beginning love affair with digital in between.

My one and only Leica is a black M6 🙂 with a Elmar-M 50mm f/2.8. I love shooting in color and black and white but am planning on getting into…[Read more]

+1 Well done!!

Very impressive Al. The moon is beautiful with the trees and clouds around it.

yes, my congrats as well Georg.

Mark,
You guys said that about the S2 a little over a year ago and I succeeded to resist for about a week 😀