Member Al Tanabe

Mark,
I agree with you that Leica has taken a great deal of time and effort in order to connect with it's customer base. I do not ever recall other brands letting their engineers and product managers interact with their customers. Mostly you see the sales force and marketing managers spinning the information. It takes a lot of guts and trust…[Read more]

David Farkas;1139 wrote: Al,

The price of the Schneider 120mm APO Macro TS is $4695. We are Schneider dealers and also brought the lens to PPE. Actually, we brought the lens with us on our Fall Foliage trip for everyone to try.

The S2 will work in A or P mode with the 120 TS. When you stop the lens down, the camera will automatically set…

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Cam Garner;1140 wrote: Maybe you can help me understand the application for this focal length of a TS. I use a 17mm TS and a 24mm TS on my Canon and use them frequently – especially the 24mm. Since I do mostly landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes there may not be a need of a longer focal length TS. Any insight on potential use would be helpful.…

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Doug,
I wear a Columbia Titanium series vest, normal everyday style, not made exclusively for photogs. I put some neoprene lens bags to line the bottom two pockets to fit my M lenses in. Plenty of pockets to keep most items handy and a large pocket in the back for the “emergency” plastic bag for the rain. Last trip I took did not involve…[Read more]

Pete,
At PPE, Leica was also demoing the Schneider 120 Macro TS Mamiya mount, adapted to the S2. With TS, manual focus and exposure is the norm so no real compromise there. Historically, Schneider has been the provider of TS lenses for Leica. The price I hear is in the $5,500 range or in Leica speak, a “Bargain”. I think David can confirm…[Read more]

I also got to shoot with the 30 and find it more to my liking than the 35 for my applications.

Mark and David,
I will be in NYC (with my wife) the 26th to the 30th. I will be attending Photo Plus on the 27th – wife gave me a day to do what I wanted to do 😮

See you guys there!

That is one of the best lenses in my collection, highly undercrated next to its' brothers the ‘cron and ‘lux both of which I have owned.

David,
Beautiful conversion of the lens. It would be an easy way for Leica to provide manual focus long glass in a short time, just convert the focus modules like you have. Aside from the fact that the 1x tube is too short, the 1.4x increases the image circle as well, yes?

Craig,
Your portfolio of work is very nice, the images of the ESP were very well composed and processed. Your style of shooting could lend itself to all of the platforms that you are looking at. Now comes the hard part, choosing the system for you. It looks like you shoot on a tripod for a lot of the images, so even an older Hasselblad H3D 39…[Read more]

Craig,
Welcome to the forum! As Pete mentioned, what kind of images do you take? That is really important in deciding on the platform that you will end up with. You say that you are shooting Canon currently, what do you want to gain in the upgrade?

If you are shooting studio, then all of the platforms you mentioned will work. Action,…[Read more]

Roger,
I would set up the custom functions with the settings that you want to use, exposure compensation, drive and AE/AF lock for your normal lens and wide. Ten set up one of the four buttons to access the custom functions when you change lenses. Save those to a card so that when you finish at the end of the day can be reset to the normal…[Read more]

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]

David,
Thank you for doing the test and damn you – now I lust for the 35 😡 Very impressive performance even without the corrections. Overall, the entire stable of S lenses have far exceeded my expectations.

-Al

Nice capture, I do like the contrasty lighting on her face.

Agreed, the Lens Align is useful when you can make adjustments as with the M cameras but not useful at the price, with the S2. Also, the amount of correction +/- will vary by the distance from the subject as well.

Best to spend the money on Rogaine as you pulling your hair out in frustration. 🙂

With no ability to adjust the focus point on the S2 would this expense be fruitless? With Canon and Nikon the user can adjust the focus so the tool is useful. On the S2 if the lens is back/front focusing you have to send camera and lens in? So just a flat high contrast target would be the logical choice.

Just got my official warranty papers from Solms and it states:
“The extension of warranty belongs to the camera and will be transferred to the buyer in case of sale”

So this means my warranty will expire in 10/2012, one year after the initial warranty expiration. I wonder if you can keep renewing?

I got a bunch of cigar boxes for “archives” I guess. If you get enough of them you can have a poker game, “I'll see your 4 gig and raise you 16 . . .”:cool:

No, they read David's post on use once – then discard.