Member Kirsten Vignes

Atanabe;451 wrote: David,
Is the warranty transferrable – like the one offered by Solms?

I don't believe so, but I can check. The only transferable warranties that I know of are on S2 and S lenses.

David K;449 wrote: I think it's too expensive for what it is but somehow I'm not surprised. I suspect you could sell an M9 and get a new M9-P for pretty close to the same price.

If you could get an M9-P….. certainly none coming in in the next few weeks with the factory closed for the rest of the month.

Another suggestion for future firmware:

Currently 2 sec self-timer locks up the mirror immediately, then counts down. This is a huge plus for tripod shooting. Unfortunately, the 12 sec self-timer doesn't currently offer any big advantage. Once you press the shutter, the timer counts down from 12, then at the 2 sec mark, the mirror locks up. I…[Read more]

Camera has been sold!

Atanabe;432 wrote: KA7197, welcome to the forum. Small vs large cards are relative to the number of images stored or lost. Yes, those “big” cards of yesteryear are small by today's comparison but did store a good number of images, a 512 mb card would store 93 5.47 mb images from my D1X but only 6 from my S2. So in relative terms, I would have…

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I think other essential accessories for me include the Leica viewfinder magnifiers. My eyesight is far from perfect, even with glasses, so having a bit of extra magnification in the viewfinder has proven to be very helpful. Even with wider angle lenses, I might use the 1.4x and an external viewfinder. A very useful gadget I always keep in my camera bag.

ka7197, welcome to Red Dot Forum and thanks for posting.

The omission of the 50 Summarit was a simple oversight on my part when setting up the poll. I've fixed it and added the option.

The Summarit is certainly no slouch of a lens. As I tell people who are new to Leica, there are no bad Leica lenses. In the world of Canon or Nikon, a…[Read more]

Stuart Richardson;408 wrote: Now that Leica is offering their own V mount lens adapters, has anyone had a chance to compare them to the Metabones and Kim adapters? While I am sure the Leica has the most precision, I am curious to know how the others compare. Just by looking, the metabones seems to be of good quality, and it is Japanese, which…

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I like both.
That's always been a plus to extra resolution. You can create so many photographs from one scene.

I recently sold from my website what I had posted as a panorama shot, and off my website, which allows for custom cropping, the buyer cbose to crop it to a rectangle and it still had enough resolution for them to order it as a…[Read more]

Mark, thank you for the feedback. What I wanted to demonstrated was the objective ISO performance of the S2 with a proper exposure. The performance would be the same in low light, since exposure in this scenario is linear. Of course underexposure situations in order to squeeze some extra exposure out of the sensor would be a different situation…[Read more]

Let's see if they do the other suggestions as fast as they did the bracketing suggestion. That was turn around in less than five days? Gee David, what a powerful forum.:)

Pete, thanks for posting this. We have updated one of our S2 bodies with the new firmware and posted some screenshots and thoughts about this update here:

http://www.reddotforum.com/content.php/164-Leica-S2-Firmware-Update-Version-1.0.1.8-Now-Available

Kurt,
Nice.
That was a crop down from what?
I ask since the 120 is not 1to1 as your bee would suggest.

Jack

Mark Gowin;383 wrote: Just remembered another feature I would like to see.

– Fix the auto bracketing feature to work like the M9 where it will fire off all shots in the sequence at the first press of the shutter. As it is now, the shutter button must be pressed for eacha ND every shot in the auto bracketing sequence.

– Also, allow auto…

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Stuart,
Your SSD solution sounds smart.
In my case I have an iMac for studio, and the Air will be for the road.
I thought I could avoid a laptop on the road, but on every photo trip I missed it, and my old MacBook Pro is heavy, slow, maxed at 3Gig, battery that lasts 5 minutes, etc. I have given it a new battery, new hard drive, more Ram,…[Read more]

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.

The moire isn't…[Read more]

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.

Okay, you got me thinking about the…[Read more]

What's the advantage of the i7 vs i5 David?