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Gorgeous shots… love them all. Out of curiosity what kind of lighting setup do you use?

I agree with David on selling separate, but occasionally a buyer needs a lens you have.
That happened when I sold my M8.

David, I didn't notice if they were too bright or not … I am just happy they were showing up on my screen. 😉

Kurt

Thanks folks,
Now I remember the parallel was with jpegs.
Someday a firmware update will do what makes sense.
Meantime, nice quick answer.

It was. Would be bad news for any shoot but when it's scantily clad models it's a disaster 🙂 Not sure why these are showing up so bright on this post.

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Thank you for the tip David. I will remember that one. I'm sure it was a huge relief for you to have lost only a few photos instead of an entire 16gb card.

Mark Gowin;160 wrote: Jack,

As I recall, the S2 has never performed parallel writes of the DNG to both CF card and SD card. I was shocked to discover that parallel write really meant it writes the DNG to the CF card and JPG to the SD card when you have the S2 set to DNG+JPG. If you have the S2 set to DNG only, then it doesn't write anything…

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Jack,

As I recall, the S2 has never performed parallel writes of the DNG to both CF card and SD card. I was shocked to discover that parallel write really meant it writes the DNG to the CF card and JPG to the SD card when you have the S2 set to DNG+JPG. If you have the S2 set to DNG only, then it doesn't write anything to the SD card until…[Read more]

Hi Geoffrey,

I am glad you brought up this topic. I have been making photographs with my S2 and the intention of turning the best ones into large prints in the future. The discussion about minimum hand-held shutter speed is important to me because I haven't yet had the opportunity to evaluate the effect of shutter speed on large prints. I…[Read more]

FMB;148 wrote: Dear M8 owners

I've my M8 as a back camera, I've also an M9 with a good set of Leica lenses, and I'm thinking if now is a good moment to try selling the camera alone or with the Elmarit 2,8 24mm.

Some main questions:

– Is it easier to sell only the camera or camera+lens?
– Which do you consider is the price for…

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GPLeica;147 wrote: For those of us who have been shooting the S2 for awhile and are printing larger than, say, over 30″ in width, what are the lowest shutter speeds you feel comfortable shooting handheld? I assume that if you're like me, I bought the S2 because I wanted super sharp images, or, if not the whole scene, selected portions of images.…

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Your back up of images to two drives is a good one. My point of the posting was when cards die, how many images are lost and how much impact will it be? I choose to use smaller cards, ones that would store a quarter day's shooting for me so that if it did fail I would not be out a lot of images. This is at the expense of having to carry four…[Read more]

I back up each card to two portable LaCie 750GB hard drives. I also check that each picture is displayed on the LED backscreen as an added precaution. And yes, I always format in the camera and not on the PC.
Did you send in your Sandisk card for evluation? Any idea as to what sparked the failure?

Albert,
No, the images were not viewable in the camera and as noted, the card was not even formatable in either a MAC or PC platform.

If you shoot a lot of images covering a subject say 400 + images per subject then losing one 32 gb card means that you only lost one subject. But if it is what you shoot in one day, then you have lost…[Read more]

Were you able to view images on the LCD? This is truly distressing… I have been using 64GB CF and 32GB SD cards in my S2 without any problems so far but I always back up at teh end of the day as a safety measure… Using 2, 4 or 8GB cards would be very difficult and frankly impractical. I always reformat in the S2 every time I commence a new…[Read more]

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Hard to imagine that the professional drinking patrons of some of those establishments (especially here in Wisconsin) would lose their focus even if commander Zim and a legion of space invaders showed up for a round.

Kurt

No, and I have discovered that if a light source is off camera, it is rarely changes the mood.