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  • #2339
    Al Tanabe

    rudlinfineart;2262 wrote: Even given my reservations as noted in the reply above, I can see one potential benefit of
    the adapter —

    IF the adapter will allow the use of the H tilt-shift adapter, then S owners would finally have
    a Tilt-Shift lens capability.

    Do you know if the leica H adapter will accommodate the H tilt-shift mechanism?

    The Tilt/shift adapter will not be able to be used on the S as there are functions that the H body needs to communicate to the adapter.

  • #2338
    Al Tanabe

    jto555;2259 wrote: Hi Josh, yes the M9 has been a huge success for Leica and is a good camera with great lenses. But with the M9M try to lighten parts of say the blue channel and darken other parts. Say darken a blue sky while lighting a blue dress. I can with an M9 and photoshop.

    I suppose that I am just disappointed as I was looking forward to an M10 and, I am sure that you will agree, that Leica launching the M9M on M(ay)10 is leaving them open to a bit of bad or disappointed press.

    jto555,
    The M9M will being a monochrome capture will not have the color matrix filters and not be able to do the Photoshopping that you have mentioned. You will have to think in B&W and marry the subject to the capture medium. It is a learned discipline – to think in B&W.

    -Al

  • #2310
    Al Tanabe

    If I recall correctly, if you bought this lens, Leica would include a VW Bug. I think the price at the time – 1972 was about $18,000 for the lens and $2,000 for the VW.

  • #2304
    Al Tanabe

    George,
    The choice really depends on what you shoot, the 24 will be and I don't think the overall size would be conducive to people-street photography. But if landscape is what you are after, wait for the 24. The 30-90 zoom will be a variable aperture lens and slower than the primes from what I hear. However a perfect set for me would be a 30, 45, 70 and 180. For me the 30 and 35 are too close in view to be practical, manual zoom (move self) would suffice for the most part.

    Really anxious to see if the announcement will include some new S glass tomorrow hope for the 45 😮

    -Al

  • #2297
    Al Tanabe

    Thank you for the compliments gentlemen. Shooting in manual focus really is challenging, can't wait for a long lens solution. Shooting side by side with all of the Canons and Nikons with long glass and VR, oh, and AF made me envious and yearn for younger (functioning) eyes. It is interesting that even at f11 the DOF is extremely shallow and does not forgive the slightest error.

  • #2292
    Al Tanabe

    David,
    No double exposure, the balance of light, sun rising while the moon set balanced out the exposure. Actually, the moon moves rather rapidly at that magnification making stacking of any kind pretty difficult, unless you can shoot at 11fps of course. Next month the timing may be a bit better as the sun and moon will be rising/setting at the same time.

    On another note, need an AF long tele for the S, really struggled getting this in focus. At least give us a tele convertor! Because of the temperature difference inside/outside, the focus creeped slightly as it adjusted to the cold so I constantly had to stay on top of the focus. Used the Eye-Fi card and iPad to check for focus as I shot, best tech accessory that I bought so far.

  • #2290
    Al Tanabe

    Got up this morning for the moonset, caught the Space Needle with it. Shot with Hasselblad 350 F4 FE + 1.4x extender.

  • #2284
    Al Tanabe

    “Pitted sensor” wow Josh, that is one strong Rocket blower! 😉 Or it must be from one of those gorgeous models burning a hole in your sensor, David.

    I agree that Leica has been very good, no EXTREMELY good at service of late. My S2 AF was out of calibration and was confirmed by my S2 rep Ben Ross, a week later a UPS shipping label came my way and all of my lenses and body went back to Solms for a calibration and check. It came back in perfect shape and no charge for the service. Never had that with Nikon, Hasselblad or Canon for any out of warranty repairs even when I was with NPS.

    Leica has answered the call and improved the customer service experience in my view.

  • #2228
    Al Tanabe

    Jack,
    Nice shot! Did you also use a polarizer for the sky or?

    -Al

  • #2203
    Al Tanabe

    Pete,
    Both great shots, the second one, the red rose is my favorite.

    -Al

  • #2202
    Al Tanabe

    aboudd;2093 wrote: I assume this would work with a macbook air?

    Aboud,
    I loaded the app onto my Mac Book Pro and it worked there. The images on the card will queue up if connection is lost and load when connection is reestablished. I have found that connection can be lost if the camera goes into sleep mode and the Eye-Fi app needs to reconnect the WiFi. The biggest problem is a lost connection when you enter a known Wi-Fi network like at home. The Pro card transfers both dng and jpg files and can be configured to just transmit one or both. I have it just transfer the jpg files when it is the only card such as the case with the M9.

    -Al

  • #2155
    Al Tanabe

    David,
    Are you running it in 64bit mode? Does seem odd that a simple process should take so long. Good excuse for a cool beer or a mojito I guess. 😎

  • #2149
    Al Tanabe

    Mark,
    You guys said that about the S2 a little over a year ago and I succeeded to resist for about a week 😀

  • #2145
    Al Tanabe

    This really intrigued me, enough to take the plunge and purchase the Eye-Fi Pro card and give it a try myself. I put it through the test with my S2, M9, X1 and Canon S95 all tethered to my iPhone4. In all cases it succeeded in transferring JPEG files to the iPhone4. I tried a long range test just to see what would happen to the download and with the S2 in another room, 30 feet away, the capture speed was not impaired in any way. It will also transmit DNG files but for the sake of storage and sanity, I chose to only transmit JPEG.

    Why I chose my iPhone was because I do not have an iPad – yet. My iPhone4 is configured to Photostream images to my account so the side benefit of this is the ability for anyone I choose to access my images from anywhere. If I do get an Pad, I will configure it to do the same.

    Configuring the S2 is very simple, choose Data Storage as Parallel then select File Format as DNG+JPEG, the DNG files will store on the CF card and the JPEGs on the Eye-Fi SD card. When the Eye-Fi card fills up, just format the SD card and continue shooting. For the M9 or other cameras with only one card slot, selecting DNG+JPEG will reduce the number of captures on the 8 gb card and will not be very useful for heavy shooters. Again, as David said earlier, the download of DNGs is rather slow, about 20 seconds.

    Where I see a great application for this is for event shooters where you can capture the JPEGs and display them almost instantaneously. I used my iPhone, but this can also transmit to any WiFi enabled device such as a laptop computer. Now wedding shooters will also need a digital assistant in addition to a shooting assistant for events.

    Yes, the S2 can be shot tethered, but this is wireless and if transmitting to an iPad, can be used to check images on a high quality, large display. The iPad could live in the shoulder bag and capture in real time so images can be evaluated for sharpness and composition on the spot.

    Now I have an excuse to get an iPad 😎

  • #2098
    Al Tanabe

    Cam,
    Great shots, I like the one with the blue car in motion adds a lot to the image.

    I sincerely hope that there is someone working on a high ISO solution for the S2. To have to decide on image quality or just getting the image is tough.

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