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Jack,
As I recall, the S2 has never performed parallel writes of the DNG to both CF card and SD card. I was shocked to discover that parallel write really meant it writes the DNG to the CF card and JPG to the SD card when you have the S2 set to DNG+JPG. If you have the S2 set to DNG only, then it doesn't write anything to the SD card until the CF card is full. If you want to write to the SD card first, then the only option is to leave the CF card out of the camera. I don't understand why Leica has not allowed true parallel writes of the DNG file. I understand that it could slow down the camera, but it would be nice to have the option so I can choose for myself whether I want a fast camera with no backup or a slow camera with a backup.
David, Josh, or others please correct me if I am wrong.
Mark
Hi Geoffrey,
I am glad you brought up this topic. I have been making photographs with my S2 and the intention of turning the best ones into large prints in the future. The discussion about minimum hand-held shutter speed is important to me because I haven't yet had the opportunity to evaluate the effect of shutter speed on large prints. I have been relegated to 100% pixel peeping on the computer. Based that practice, I tend to agree with the two times focal length or maybe one stop more to ensure a high percentage rate of keeper. Of course the keeper rate (by measure of 100% pixel peeping) drops considerably with shutter speed, but I have been “lucky” to get a very few critically sharp photos at one times focal length.
Mark
I'm gsld you asked this question. I too don't Know much about flash photography, especially on the S2. I generally don't like the look of most photos taken with a flash. However, I am sure folks that know what they are doing can make more natural looking photos while using a flash.
Josh and David, thank you for showing me what is possible. I am embarrassed to admit it but truth be told I have purchased three previous Photoshop versions (CS2, CS3, and CS4) with every intention of learning how to use it each time I purchased it. It's funny that it took me three well intentioned tries before I figured out not to buy CS5.
I seemed to never find the time to learn Photoshop and the flexibility of LightRoom made my need for Photoshop a much lower priority. However, here is a good example where Photoshop can save an image. Also, I have no ethical problem with combining these images because the end result will be very close to what I saw and I am just overcoming limitations of the camera.
The firefly photos show some noise in the form of small white dots here and there.
Let's try this one.
I can't upload the main scene at this time due to file size. I will try again later. Sorry for the delay.
More firefly images
One more to go – the dusk time view of the scene.
Me too! You had me going there for a moment.
Photo taken with 35mm and polarizer
I notice the horizon looks to be titled slightly. This must be an optical dillusion (spelling intentional) because I used a level. Tilted horizons are a pet peeve of mine.
These days tilted horizons are all the rage in senior and wedding photography. It drives me nuts although I have tried it a time or two myself.
How well does this work? A little bit of tilt could solve some of the foreground to main subject depth of field problems I have been having. Granted I wouldn't want to tote that rig around all the time.
