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I recently started my film journey with a Leica M4 and Summicron 50 DR about 6 months ago. Since then I've added a Minolta CLE and a few additional lenses to the mix.

I'm also strongly thinking about purchasing an M7 à la carte.

Marc,
I agree with your observations that the S series of lenses are by far the best out there. The ability to use other brands of lenses opens up the possibilities for specialty lenses and lower cost alternatives till one can save up the funds to purchase one of those gems. While the Hassey 120 is not as crisp as the 120 S, it does put up a…[Read more]

IMO, there is no way the 40 FLE matches the S35 out to the edges. The Zeiss 40IF may come closer or match the S35, but that improved edge-to-edge performance came at the price of increased distortion over the 40FLE. The Hasselblad HC 35-90 is almost as good as the 40IF @ the 40mm mark, and it's a zoom.

So far the S35 is the best MFD wide…[Read more]

They are very, very tempting, but since I am looking at the S2, I decided to just get an SSD for my older Macbook pro. Hopefully that will give it another year or two. I also love the size and portability of the Macbook Air, but I would really miss the things you lose in going with that form factor (or what you seem to lose each time the MBP is…[Read more]

Are you looking at the 11″ or 13″ MBA?

I was just in the Apple Store and looked at both. If I was in the market for one ;), I'm actually not sure which way I'd go.

The 11″ is barely bigger than my gen 1 iPad and much more functional, but has a pretty small screen. The 13″ has decent screen real estate and might be a capable Portable LR…[Read more]

Wonderful shots, Woody! Gorgeous colors. The S2 is certainly a very fine landscape camera.

David K;224 wrote: Recently discovered that shooting flowers isn't as easy as it looks. Took this one with the 120 macro 1/4 sec @f/8. Looked a little soft so I sharpened it up a bit…maybe a bit too much. Made me wonder what you guys are using for a sharpening technique.

Hey David

I use Photokit Sharpener (Jeff Schewe, Mac Holbert…[Read more]

Jack MacD;352 wrote: What's the advantage of the i7 vs i5 David?

Jack,

The biggest difference is that the i7 has hyperthreading while the i5 does not. So, while the speed is essentially the same clock-for-clock, the i7 will have twice the virtual cores, making it superior for heavily multi-threaded applications like image…[Read more]

Interesting pano, and look at that blue sky! I was going to remark that it's a familiar skyline… but it's NOT really familiar, as it's been many years since I've come into Seattle on the ferry from Bremerton, which would give this view.

The most easily identifiable building is that stubby little thing over at the far right, called the Smith…[Read more]

Here's another idea: an option to enable “card readability checks”.

Every so often when the buffer is flushed and the card idle, read back the first few blocks from the most recent images written to the card. Potentially check many images in case the card has a large RAM buffer: we want to read from the flash cells.

The idea is to…[Read more]

David Farkas;190 wrote: Okay, here is a big one I left off that I've written about before…

Dr. Zimmer, head of digital R&D, explained that noise could be reduced by either dropping the sensor readout from 24Mhz to 12Mhz or by using a dual readout vs. a quad readout from the sensor.

That's surprising: why would dual vs. quad readout…[Read more]

Jeff Plomley;263 wrote: Possibly a menu item which allows the user to input an autofocus calibration offset, not unlike that offered by Nikon/Canon and others.

I don't want to have to figure out the offset and then input it to the camera: have the S2 figure it out.

Create a suitable target for focusing and post it on Leica's web site for…[Read more]

Mark Gowin;358 wrote: I love this pano David. It is amazing just how good the software is at creating panos now days. I really like the lenticular clouds on top of Mt Ranier. Also, I see some moire in a couple of the high-rise buildings at this resolution. Perhaps it is not there on the full size image.

Thanks, Mark.

The moire isn't…[Read more]

I love this pano David. It is amazing just how good the software is at creating panos now days. I really like the lenticular clouds on top of Mt Ranier. Also, I see some moire in a couple of the high-rise buildings at this resolution. Perhaps it is not there on the full size image.

Thank you for he replies David and Pete. Food for thought.

David K;347 wrote: Holy Bat-pano Robin.

Beautiful image David. Curious about your panning technique. I use the RRS pano kit and stitch in PT Gui Pro but it sounds like you're using CS5. I typically try to use as close to normal as I can lens wise. But the 35 cron seems to have done a wonderful job.

Okay, you got me thinking about the…[Read more]

Are we talking Leica-branded lenses, or M-mount lenses? I didn't have a 50mm at all for many years, using just the 35 Summicron and 90 TE on my M2. Now I have several 50mm lenses but none are Leica.

The first time I used a 50 on the M2 was somewhat of a revelation. I could see easily outside the framelines… which I never could with the 35,…[Read more]

Doug, thank you for your comments, really appreciated. The 0.95 is an amazing lens and I am loving it.

What's the advantage of the i7 vs i5 David?