Member Mark Gowin

Atanabe;473 wrote: David,
Wasn't that an issue with the read/write tab on the card?

No, Al, I had brought 3 or 4 brand new 8GB SDHC cards (in packaging) to Seattle. The M9 was being shipped to my hotel by Leica (it was Oct 09, so M9s weren't really out there yet). When I was in Germany testing a prototype M9 for my article, I had used a…[Read more]

Mark Gowin;466 wrote: I figured out part of the problem with the photo of Jack Daniels. Instead of shooting at +0.5 EV I shot at -0.5 EV.

Here is another photo taken the same day along with two crops (bright and shadow). This photo is much better regarding noise. Interesting trivia – Chattanooga, TN is home to the very first Coca Cola…

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Atanabe;474 wrote: Spoken like a true retailer 😮 Don't you just miss the days of film and processing revenue?

Memory card sales make up such a small percentage of our sales, are so inexpensive and have such slim margins (if any at all) that my retailer hat is taken off for this one. I have been taking the single-use SD card approach…[Read more]

Guess I'll chip in as well.

Been fine using Transcend Class 10 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards. On the first version of M9 firmware, I had a compatibility issue (no card found) when using the Transcend Class 6 8GB*. These also work fine now.

* Thanks to Al for loaning me some of his extra SD cards when I was in Seattle and my brand new 8GBs…[Read more]

Wow. VERY impressive shot, Mark. Beyond the fact that ISO 1250 looks so good, the picture is really beautiful. What aperture did you use on the 400mm? The bokeh is really nice.

Mark, nice shot! It really is amazing what the S2 is capable of at ISO1250. I am also very pleased to see such nice results from the Pentax 400mm.

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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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]

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

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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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]