Member Kirsten Vignes

Marc,

I really like the Calder shot.
That shot would definitly look great in 30″.
I have learned that one should always keep shooting in the dark, and that shot proves it.
Of course you brought your own sun, but your balance of light was so good, I would not have imagined the conditions if you had not told us.

Manilaman2001;2458 wrote: David,

Thank you for your reply. The operative phrase, ” This can manifest itself as a magenta cast on dark synthetic materials, especially in artificial light. ” -only dark synthetic materials only? And artificial lighting sources like incandescent and fluorescent, which I hope can be corrected with UV/IR or with…

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aboudd;2446 wrote: I normally shoot architectural assignments with the shift lenses on the Nikon, but as it was not necessary in this case I decided to use the S2 with the 35MM lens. The dynamic range with the resolution and color rendering was great for this image. Very little post-processing was necessary. Take that D800! 😎

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Manilaman2001;2453 wrote: Has the magenta hue prevalent in the M8 still present in the M8.2, or has that been corrected? I just got myself a pre-loved M8.2 and have been told by the former owner it still had that magenta hue on dark images, specially prevalent on evening shoots. I have not noticed it on my unit, but saw it on a friend's…

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Andyc:

Well first off I am jealous that you have received an adapter before any of us here in the US! My first question would be, have you updated your Leica S2 body to the latest firmware? This new firmware, version 1.0.3.3 is designed to allow the S2 to work properly with the new adapter. You can find a link to that…[Read more]

Stephan Schulz;2437 wrote: It is always the battery with more remaining energy in charge of supplying the power. That means, at the end are both batteries empty, in the camera as well as in the handgrip.

But might be difficult to see that in real life, because S2 is running very long with 2 batteries…. 😀

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This lens has been sold!

stephan;2423 wrote: I had no lock up either since then, so maybe it was something else.

Nevertheless, I have two other wishes for an eventual firmware-update:

1) Since the last firmware update, it appears that the lens goes back in the last position after shutting down the camera. What may look as a good idea first, brings some problems…

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Mark,
Glad you like them.
To answer your question of DOF, That diptych was shot with three 120mm images merged into a panorama, then reduced to a triptych then narrowed down to a diptych.
There was no focus stacking. I focused on the far wall, letting the foreground beams go soft. You can see the actual DOF in this close cropping of the…[Read more]

leica liker;2394 wrote: Hi Everyone:
I just posted an inspirational interview with Craig Semetko, Los Angeles Street Photographer, Leica user and Leica Akademie Weekend Guest Instructor, on my blog.

http://www.leicaliker.com

Photo by Craig Semetko

Craig is a great guy and a wonderful photographer. I first met him in 2008 when he…[Read more]

Jack MacD;2410 wrote: A follow up to this shoot on TOP has Mike Johnson showing some of the same photos. Always interesting to see how iterations of resizing and downloading the same image may or may not change the presentation and color of a given…

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A follow up to this shoot on TOP has Mike Johnson showing some of the same photos. Always interesting to see how iterations of resizing and downloading the same image may or may not change the presentation and color of a given image.

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/05/jacks-pictures-with-the-leica-s2.html#comments

tinchohs;2399 wrote: I have shot mostly color in my M9. But lately, I've been considering working for a while exclusively in B&W. I'm curious if I can make it work for me.

With the arrival of the MM I am very tempted. And yet I wonder if for my scenario it's not better to buy an M6 and shoot film for B&W and wait for an M10 for my deep…

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David,
Extremely well done. When you kept saying you were working hard on some updates of the new products, I kept asking myself, why is it taking so long? Now I understand. You provided detail on the Monochrom that exists in no other place. I have previously digitally converted about 1/4 of my shots into B&W. Initially my reaction was why…[Read more]

Georg,

I'm a little late to the party (I'm 6 hours behind here in the US), but I would have said it was the battery not holding a charge.

When you see the CF card light turn red for a moment, go off, then nothing else works… 99% of the time it indicates a dead battery. Over the last couple years with the S2, we've seen this a handful…[Read more]

I tested this here. When the camera is set to shoot Parallel, it will not record DNG images to the SD card. This is true when a CF card is also installed, or when an SD card is in the camera by itself. If you set the camera to JPEG only as an experiment, you can shoot to the SD card by itself even if the camera is in Parallel, but if you try to…[Read more]

Could be a corrupt card. I've yet to see any camera-related memory card issues with the S2 over the past 2 years so it would be surprising to see one now. Have you tried a different SD card?

I think this is pretty interesting too:

http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2012/04/new-color-fringe-correction-controls.html

LR4.1 will introduce entirely new CA and fringing controls. I haven't tried it yet as I am skipping the RC (Release Candidate) and waiting for the full release. My entire catalog is in LR4 and I don't risk…[Read more]

gdb;2357 wrote: Hi Pebbleplace,

The purple CA I posted came right after processing the original DNG in Capture One Pro.

I quite agree with your opinion Adobe's CA removal. Actually, I am a long time user of Capture One Pro, which I find the best (by far) for sharpness rendition and moiré correction. This was the time I used the R9/DMR…

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PebblePlace;2352 wrote: Hi David –

It's been a frustrating day… I've been using flashes on Canon gear for 10 years and feel competent with flashes. After 100 clicks and no joy with TTL and the S2 I was thoroughly stumped.

Perhaps I missed it, but I've read the S2 manual 2X, the SF-58 (found no mention of the S2 anywhere) and went to…

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