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Great to hear the S2 is in high favor and helping you be creative! I'm fond of mine as well, and the new grip is helping keep a steady hold in the cold. I have a project going, but slowly until it warms up some.

Doug

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RVB;5996 wrote: Hi Jack

I wonder if the S image circle allows for 44×33 without cropping,I agree its likely that Sony offered them to Leica. …
Rob

Pentax uses a 44×33 CCD from Kodak which has a 55 mm image circle. Our 30 x 45 CCD has a 54.1 mm circle. Not much difference.

Doug

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Roger;5932 wrote: The pinkish tint maybe coming from IR contamination . The M240 sensor cover glass appears to be weaker than the M9 ….tests with IR filters are showing its slight IR contamination . I did not see much or any of this in daylight shooting but every so often I get a capture that defies color balancing . Some M users are just reverting to IR filters when they are shooting under conditions where it really matters …

Seems reasonable… The IR contamination can be subtle. I am treating the M240 the same as the M8, just leaving the IR Cut filters on the lenses.

I'm told that the filters have a pretty sharp cutoff at visible red, yet some pinky-red is obviously reflected from the filter, like a red searchlight! There may be enough of that effect to noticeably reduce the small excess of magenta-red being recorded, in addition to the IR removal.

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WPalank;5873 wrote: UPDATE: …
The good news is that Tom found a 45 CS Demo that will be delivered to a local dealer (at discount) in the next couple of days.
So the decision has been made and thank you all for your invaluable help. I hope this thread may help others trying to make the same decision in the future. Cheers!….

Good luck with the new lens, and I hope it will suit you well. I bought the 35 last year… found a nice used one at Dale… I'm pretty happy with it. But then I find it easy to adapt myself to different angles of view. Plus I have used the 45 and 55mm Pentax67 lenses, both f/4 so somewhat smaller and lighter, but manual focus and aperture of course.

So I've been interested to hear in this thread what others feel about the uses and preferences of the different angles of view of the wide Summarits on the S/S2. Before the 45S, I had thought a 50mm would be nice… an effective 40mm could be very useful.

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I would have said 45mm but they just did it! Is there room for a 55mm? Indeed a 100mm Summicron has a place on a few want lists too, I think. And something around 280-350mm would be desirable, though maybe Leica thinks the dedicated extender with the 180 is sufficient.

I have been using some of the 100mm and up lenses from the Pentax 6×7… And I've decided my use of lenses longer than 100mm is so infrequent that I'm glad Leica has been filling in the wide angle range.

Doug

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The little camera is doing well for you! That's a dramatic and interesting structure…

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Yes, I was in a similar position having bought a used M9 from a private party. He had registered it on the Leica Owners Area, and for unknown reasons was reluctant to de-register it, an easy procedure.

So I sent mail to Leica in Solms with a copy of the sales receipt with the serial number and of course name of the seller, and they cleared the way for me to re-register it.

When I later sold the M9 through a dealer, as soon as I had confirmation that the sale was final, I went to the Owners Area on the Leica website and de-registered it.

Doug

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I sold my M9 the other day… It had had a Giottos screen protector on it for 3 years, and in that time it collected some fine scratches. So I removed it for the sale, revealing an undamaged Leica LCD looking like new.

I've heard of another brand of screen protector that reportedly damages some Leica screens, but I'm guessing it's a different adhesive that's at fault there.

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Sure looks like dirt spots on the sensor to me. I didn't see any light spots, just ones darker than the background… It seems well established that M cameras will splatter shutter lube and bits of metal debris as the new shutter wears in. Applies to the S as well? This would explain how it happens without the vulnerability of lens changes.

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Yes, and our eyes like to follow paths too… nice!

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Looks like you got a nice mix of light, the foreground element just has to be there. 😎

At first looking at the larger size, my eyes kept trying to insert colors in the sky, need to have 'em checked I guess!

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The light is great, and so is the soupy atmosphere… I'd be happy with this one!

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Dog looks pleased enough at the admiration. 🙂 And it's remarkably good for the combination of speed and aperture.

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Read an account by a guy on safari in Africa who rigged up solar cells on his backpack that would charge spare batteries during the day. He was pretty popular with other members of the group… 🙂

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Scott, it looks like a lot of creative energy can be realized with a model like that! I particularly like the third one, first of the two shopping cart shots. The contortion, in such an unusual way, plus the calm expression just looks surreal.

The first two scare the dickens out of me, as that looks like a very long drop at hand. But then the older I get the more nervous I am about heights. 🙂

Doug

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