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Jack MacD;582 wrote:
BTW your choice of lenses 35 and 120 is all I have.

I have all four but seem to use the 35 and 120 all the time. You have made a good choice. Roll on the 30mm I say!

Nick,
I quite agree. There were so many early postings in 2010 by S2 triers, rather than S2 owners who set up the expectation that only ISO 160 was going to be any good with the S2. But as Leica has worked with Adobe LR, the facts come out that shooting at ISO 640 is no hardship. Next they will complain that there still is no ISO…[Read more]

Nick:

Great to have you as part of Red Dot! I will agree that my S2 presets have some added shadow contrast, this reflects both my preference for a bit of extra contrast and the reduction of the “blacks” slider in Lightroom to 2, which will inherently flatten out the image. Of course I provide these presets as a starting point not as a…[Read more]

I have the new split prism screen in my S2 and love it. Not sure when it's going to be available but it should be real soon now…three weeks ago I was told it would be announced ‘in a few weeks'!

Recommended.

Josh

David Farkas suggested I look at this forum after I posted an article on Luminous Landscape about the S2 as a travel camera. I have a question…

The tone curve in your presets tends to kill the shadow detail in my high ISO images – what is there a reason for this change? I can see no benefit. My ISO640 images look better without…[Read more]

Thanks Jack.

Stuart, no flash. I just made certain that I didn't shoot into the sun for once. 😉 The S2 worked great on AF-C. It was a very bright day, so no problem with shutter speed. The only issue was how bright the sky was to shoot against. Working with S2 files in such a scenario is great because of the ability to pull the subject back in raw.

Thanks David and David.

Jack, just sitting down on the job.

This was over at the Harley Museum … they had this troupe of stunt riders called ‘Bikes over Baghdad' perform on souped up kid's bikes. They put on a series of tricks including jumps off of ramps. They travel overseas to entertain the troops with some high adrenaline stunts…[Read more]

Nice shot Kurt! Looks like the AF works (or did you just use MF?)! Did you freeze it with flash, or was it just high shutter speed?

I saw your reach for it shot first and wondered where you were to shoot it. Perhaps this explains it as you were laying down on the job.

Kurt,
Great self portrait!
Jack

Nice shot Kurt and I really like the b&W conversion too.

Here is another idea for future firmware which should be simple to implement. Allow the rear thumb button (which I use to trigger autofocus) to be assigned as a one click 100% zoom button when in image review mode. Most of the time, when I zoom in on an image I want to go to 100% to check focus. A one button approach would be faster and easier.

Whoa! Brave volunteers. 😮

I'd say you effectively captured the moment and the emotion (tension) extremely well.

This looks nice!

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10549

LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt

No pricing yet, but sizing will be:

240GB SSD
500GB SSD
1TB 7200RPM HDD

All sizes will have built-in RAID 0 and Thunderbolt 10GB/s interface

Peyton,

Is this lens still available? I have someone who might be interested.

Interesting issue in itself, but also it implies there have been 30000 M9 cameras sold… if 15 units is .05% of units sold. Or am I reading this wrong…

Hi David:

I am grateful to you for the wonderful tests! Simply stunning in all regards. That is the kind of performance one is hoping to see in the S2 with the 35mm. Now, there will be no way for me to sleep! 🙂

Thank you for you kindness in the tests!

Pete Myers

David,
Peter Karbe is truely a genius! His “affordable” Summarit line for the M series sparkle. It is interesting to note that there is a no compromise approach to design and execution of the S lenses. While Hasselblad is content to offer software corrections for their D series lenses, Leica refuses to do so and instead produce the best glass…[Read more]

I agree. This is a great little lens for a bargain (relatively speaking). I really enjoyed this lens when I had a M system.