Member Peter Dooling

HCHeyerdahl;1615 wrote: Hi,

I mostly shoot outside, but do use a portable flash on my Nikon for taking casual snaps of my family etc. I don´t know much about using flash, and just bounce the light off some wall when taking pictures indoors. My (very limited..) experience is that a shutter speed of 1/250 gives a greater number of keepers,…

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Your assumptions are correct. According to Stephan Schulz (S2 product manager), there is no vibration advantage when using CS lenses as the focal plane shutter must fire immediately before the leaf shutter. The only advantage of the CS lenses is for faster flash sync speed, which in itself, is only an advantage when shooting with studio strobes…[Read more]

Michael Moss;1603 wrote: My understanding is that the CS lenses have a built-in leaf shutter that allows 1/500 flash sync, but what are the other speeds available to the leaf shutter? Can it do the full range of speeds slower than 1/500? …like 1/4 or 1/8 etc? Thanks for any info

Michael,

The leaf shutter in the CS lenses can operate…[Read more]

Jack,

I really like the first shot. I also like the more symmetrical version on your site of the same structure as well. Not sure which I like best. You could do a triptych series of 3 different angles of the same subject. Might be and interesting twist.

David

David Farkas and Josh Leher brought along a Schneider 120mm tilt/shift lens on the S2 Fall Foliage trip. It was in Mamiya mount and attached to the S2 via adapter. I tried the lens a couple times. It is very well built, easy to use (once you learn how to use it), and it is a very good performer.

I am sure David or Josh can provide additional info.

Whew! I am glad you were able to update the firmware. Also, I am very impressed with your dealer taking care of you the way he did.

Your Monitor Back Plane Brightness setting is currently on Automatic. This adjusts the monitor backlight (not image brightness) based on ambient lighting conditions. To change:

1) Setup menu
2) Monitor/Display
3) Back Plane
4) Backlight
5) Change to Medium
6) Confirm by depressing the thumb wheel

This should solve your problem.

I like it. Well done. The sun angle is great for backlighting the flag and stone building. However, it puts the wreaths leaning on the headstones in shadow. To bad you can't have it all.

Iceandfire;1515 wrote: Hello,
I have a question about the back screen on my S2,
it's bad when the light is dark…
sometimes it's grey sometimes it's dark with special effect ! 🙂
but when the light is good, the screen is normal…
on the magnific S2 the screen must be all right and all the time I think !
thanks for your ans…

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Al, it appears you are having a good time in South Florida. In my opinion, it is a sad commentary on our current culture to lable that very attractive lady as a plus-sized model. She doesn't appear to be skinny, but she certainly doesn't seem to be what I think of as plus-sized. Of course I am basing my comments on your photos and perhaps your…[Read more]

Thanks for all the feedback. We took all of the suggestions in this thread and discussed each one with S2 product managers Stephan Schulz and Toni Felsner when we met with them at Photo Plus Expo in NYC. I've posted the result of this discussion here:

Photo Plus Expo 2011: A Discussion with Leica S2 Product Managers Stephan Schulz and Toni Felsner

This lens has been sold, thanks!

Andy:

While I cannot be exactly sure why you had this particular problem, I can say from experience that the S2, and most of the cameras I have owned in fact, are very reliable…but there will always be variability. The S2 is a hand built camera, and while Leica's QC is good, they are not perfect. What matters now is how Leica Service…[Read more]

Andy:

Sorry to hear that you are having issues. Are you saying that the S2 battery was physically stuck inside both the camera and the grip? That is something I have never seen. What I have seen is batteries that do not lock very well inside the camera, but this appears to be the opposite problem. How did you end up removing the stuck…[Read more]

David K;1446 wrote: Jack, I don't think Josh had another pair of these to swap..they are EL. FS=For Sale BTW, these are especially good for watching the Packers go all the way again 🙂

They are green, after all….

linusm;1439 wrote: [quote=fotografz]Currently, I am way more into lighting, since that seems to make a much larger difference in the work than incrementally adding more of this or that to some digital box, especially a box like the S2 which is a light vampire just like most other MFD cameras. … not to mention that lighting is very challenging…

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rgk;1427 wrote: What is the advantage of using the Schneider system over screw in filters? Thank you.

Screw-in filters are useful for circular ploarizers or UV filters where the effect is across the entire image. A graduated ND filter (GND) needs to slide up and down in order to position it for optimal effect, so the rectangular form factor…[Read more]

I used the Upstrap with my Leica M8 and really liked it. However, I have not used the larger version for larger cameras so I can't help you much there. Sorry.

Bob Moore;1424 wrote: David,

Are you using the Lee system for the 4″ filters?

Thanks,

Bob

Bob,

I use the Schneider system, which uses Schott optical glass filters rather than plastic resin. I am extremely pleased with the quality of these. Here is a link to the 4″ filter system on our…[Read more]

stephan;1420 wrote: Seen the price of the lenses, I thought it would be a good idea to use some UV-filters and bought some nice Zeiss-Filters.

But are those filters really needed and don't they spoil the image quality (a little)? As far as I understood, the S2 lenses have a special anti-dirt treatment of the front-element, and this also is…

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