Member peytonhoge

Nice shots. Looks like you are getting the hang of M photography pretty quickly.

There is a link to email me in my signature, please send me a message and I will send firmware your way.

Pete:

You are correct, I was mistaken, you cannot re-install the same version of the firmware on the S2 from my experience. Another option might be to downgrade the firmware to the previous version, then upgrade again. I can email you the previous version if you cannot find it online.

Pete:

The S2 firmware update process takes 3-5 minutes, so if it is only lasting a few seconds, it is possible that the firmware file itself is corrupt. I might try re-downloading it from Leica's website, re-formatting the memory card, and give the process another try.

Josh

Pete Walentin;598 wrote: Everything was fine before. Just updated the firmware. Camera automatically turned off. I turned the camera on and now it has a nice black, shimmering line through the whole display. GREAT!

This is already my 2nd camera and I'm starting to really get annoyed.

Does anyone experienced the same problem or does…

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Roger,

In the current firmware, you can set the rear button to either AF-C or AF-S in MF mode. By default, a half-press and hold on the shutter release will act as an AE-L.

If you're used to using the rear button for focus, you may not want to confuse things by setting it to the shutter release. Muscle memory is a powerful force…[Read more]

Marc:

Great to have you on board Red Dot Forum! Thrilled that we could find a combination of Leica gear that worked for you. I am looking forward to seeing some images from your M8/35 cron combo.

Enjoy!

Nick,

Thanks for posting this sample over here on Red Dot Forum. It is one of the best examples I've seen yet for detail and noise at 640 ISO.

I took a look at the metadata: 1/1000th at f/9.5. Easily hand-holdable shutter speed for the 120 with good depth of field as well. ISO 160 would have dropped you down to 1/250th, which should…[Read more]

Nick:

Great to have you as part of Red Dot! I will agree that my S2 presets have some added shadow contrast, this reflects both my preference for a bit of extra contrast and the reduction of the “blacks” slider in Lightroom to 2, which will inherently flatten out the image. Of course I provide these presets as a starting point not as a…[Read more]

Whoa! Brave volunteers. 😮

I'd say you effectively captured the moment and the emotion (tension) extremely well.

This looks nice!

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10549

LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt

No pricing yet, but sizing will be:

240GB SSD
500GB SSD
1TB 7200RPM HDD

All sizes will have built-in RAID 0 and Thunderbolt 10GB/s interface

Peyton,

Is this lens still available? I have someone who might be interested.

Atanabe;548 wrote: David,
Thank you for doing the test and damn you – now I lust for the 35 😡 Very impressive performance even without the corrections. Overall, the entire stable of S lenses have far exceeded my expectations.

-Al

You're welcome on both counts, Al. 😀

The S lenses are really extraordinary. Peter Karbe told…[Read more]

Jack MacD;543 wrote: Mark,
I think David wants to do weightlifting. Since he is both his own very good IT dept. and Dale has an IT dept. he can work very well with a PC. Apple is a good choice for those of us without those skills and departments.

So if he was willing to give up 8 to 16 Gig RAM capabilities with all the rest that he needs…

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Pete,

Ask and you shall receive. I went out today with the S2 and 35mm Summarit-S around noon when the South Florida light is at its most harsh and direct. I headed for a polished stainless steel sculpture in nearby Greenbelt park as I figured it to be the toughest test of CA within driving distance.

The files here were processed in LR…[Read more]

Andrew:

The Lightroom preset cannot be directly imported into Adobe Camera Raw, but the settings are identical, so it would be simple to create a Camera Raw preset using the same settings that are used in my Lightroom presets.

Pete Myers;526 wrote: Dear S2 Users:

For those of you that own and shoot the 35mm FL lens, would you comment on the amount of chromatic aberration seen in, and at the extremes of the images produced? I have been unable to locate any Imatest data on the lens.

Better yet, some corner examples at a few significant F-Stops would be real…

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Pete,

Love these. My favorites are 1, 6, 7 and 8. B&W really works well here.

Atanabe;513 wrote: With no ability to adjust the focus point on the S2 would this expense be fruitless? With Canon and Nikon the user can adjust the focus so the tool is useful. On the S2 if the lens is back/front focusing you have to send camera and lens in? So just a flat high contrast target would be the logical choice.

The benefit of…[Read more]