Member David Farkas

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]

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]

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.

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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.

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I'm impressed that Apple put i7 processors in the new MacBook Air.

fotografz;281 wrote: I want/need/desire/beg-for … a 1.4XAPO extender for the 180, and a 1:1 Elpro for the 120.

Most important of all, where are the CS lenses? I specifically want the CS versions of the 35mm and 120 which I use the most with strobes for outdoor portraits and commercial applications (the SF58 do NOT cut it for this type of…

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Doug;274 wrote:
The first lens tried was the 100mm f/4 Macro, and I forgot the advice I saw posted to set the Summarit wide open manually before mounting an adapted lens… I think this was in the context of using the 110mm f/2 Hasselblad lens. Anyway, the camera “thought” the Macro lens was f/6.8 and all the exposures were about 1.5 stops…

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Mark Gowin;255 wrote: I agree Jack. I saw this image through sleepy eyes last night on my laptop and was impressed. Today, I tried to view it on my iPad and I was let down that I couldn't see all of the image. Bummer!

The best way to upload images on the site is to just use the standard Insert Image or Manage Attachment options. The site…[Read more]

Stuart Richardson;233 wrote: Yes, agreed! But did you watch that interview with Peter Karbe on Luminous Landscape? I liked the part where he suggested the performance of the 120mm at infinity would be on par with 280mm. It must be a staggeringly good lens…

I was sitting in the room during the interview. I am the voice to the right of…[Read more]

Stuart,

Welcome to Red Dot Forum.

As Josh said, we've used the Microprism screen and it is very nice and bright. Unfortunately, Leica hasn't started shipping the screen and hasn't given a specific delivery date yet. Here are some images from Photokina of the screen and looking through the viewfinder:

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Jack MacD;228 wrote: With huge photo files the norm with either the M9 or S2 I look forward to seeing more options for external hard drives that connect with thunderbolt. Even the connection cords are rare so far. Does anyone have any experience with thunderbolt yet?

Jack,

Perhaps the better question is why 2011 Macs don't come standard…[Read more]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that deliveries of the M9-P in the US have started. We expect to receive our first shipment from Leica on Monday, July 10.

Gorgeous! Love the water and richness of the greens.

David K;216 wrote: I haven't seen Marc post here yet so I'll take the liberty of passing along a comment he made on another forum relating to ISO settings. He feels, and I agree, that having more ISO settings would be a good thing. Something in between the existing options. This would be even more useful if the noise reduction firmware…

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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. Either of these options would cut the continous frame rate in half and double the…[Read more]

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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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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Jack,

This is pretty neat tech. I'd be very curious to see how much power output they are able to get. Looks like the unit uses and array of about 112 LEDs. I seriously doubt they can even match the light output of an on-camera strobe, let alone a portable power pack, but I won't dismiss something I've never seen or used.

While…[Read more]

Kurt Kamka;94 wrote: … on camera and off. I need to take a deep dive and understand a bit more about the SF58, basic settings and any other secrets you wish to share.

My confession: I've never really taken the time to understand flash … I've compensated by finding faster lenses and better higher ISO cameras. I've used flash a few times…

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