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Thanks.
It is already a year ago since we have been there, but the colors are still amazing to look at.
I'm jealous. 🙂 More please!
Josh Lehrer;3996 wrote:
Pete, the button has a very nice feel to it. For focusing, I haven't had any problems. What I have noticed is I have to remember not to press it in while I am navigating a zoomed-in image, because that changes the playback mode.Thanks Josh.
Brian that is a cool Christmas present. I am pretty sure Henry will make you very happy.
Enjoy.
Josh,
Please have a look how reliable the rear button is for focusing. The S2 the button has just one direction. So it works perfectly. How does this turns out now with a button having much more directions to use?
Thanks,
PeteYes, a silver one. 😉
Nice.
What kind of Flash Trigger you are using?
I am using Profoto Air and had never any issue.
Hi Jheroun,
I am very sorry to hear that. The only problem I had when shooting tethered was an image which was broken, unreadable. But only one out of two hundred and I had not invested time to find out what the reasons might be.
Everything else you have experienced is new to me. Maybe an exorcism in Solms will help. I would take care to give Leica CS, if possible at all, reproduction steps which could help to localize the issue, to fix it and most important to verify it before they send the camera back to you.
Keep us posted.
Congrats.
I'm learning so much again with the Monochrom, very cool. As already written in other forums about the Monochrom, it is interesting how I was used to look for colors and instantly when framing a picture in my mind which is based on colors, a pop-up appears in my brain which reads: Attention: Color only! – So much fun.
On the other side I must admit, this time of the season (at least where I am on the planet), running around with the Monochrom is pure excitement. The sun is not that high anymore and by early afternoon you have perfect lighting in the city. Long shadows, lots of contrast.
I will post some image next week when I'm back on my machine.
Really beautiful. I like the rendering of the lens.
I must add here, after reading Davids report, that Leica has really listened to what we discussed here and asked for. Thanks Leica.
Hey… pretty cool report. Thanks.
It is much more what I discovered during my hands-on and I have to admit while reading the details I thought that I would love to have this camera. But as another new toy arrived in my hands today I have to wait… 😉
Thanks for the feedback. I hope David will come back with much more infos later today.
I made it to Photokina today and had the chance to take a closer look at the new S and some of the new lenses.
The Leica booth is pretty nice and spacious. It wasn't that crowded, so there was a good chance to get hands-on every camera you like.
The Leica gallery behind is definitely worth a visit. Some amazing prints.
They have a special S-Lounge with a small studio where today Darren Centofanti shooted.
So all quite nice, but coming back to topic. The new S. The first thing I recognized was the new coating. It defenitely feels like it sticks better in your hands, but I personally prefer the old one. I never had any issue with the coating or ever came close to the situation where the camera slips out of my hands.
The Mini-Joystick controller is very useable when scrolling in pictures, which is really a great help. The old scrolling is quite strange. I'm used to it by now but obviously it is much easier with a stick. I guess the button will have more features attached to it, but I didn't checked this.
The display looks great but it was hard to justify as I wasn't able to see real world pictures in real world light. But definitely an improvement. But here as well, I never had big issues with the old one.
The GPS adds another “button” on the camera, which you can see top-left of the viewfinder. Whoever needs this feature, with this camera he is good to go. 😉
The AF is the same as before. At least what I recognized and that is what the Leica guys told me. But here as well I never had any issues with the AF. It is not the fastest of course, but very accurate.
The menu is in general the same but less colorful and it has a new font.
The camera feels slightly lighter but as this is changing with every lens it is hard to tell if it really makes a difference.
My conclusion is, that it offers some nice new features and it will attract more and more people into the system. Which is in the meantime a really broad one.
Would I upgrade my S2? If money doesn't matter, of course. But in real-life, at least for me, it makes more sense to wait two more years and continue enjoying one of the best cameras in the world.
I also played a little with a 70CS and made some shots with 1/1000s and a nice Briese 77m. Pretty nice. They told me the lenses will finally be available in October this year. We will see… 😉
The 24mm feels great. Quite a compact lens. More like the 70 than the 35 but heavier than the 70. It is really, really wide. Of course I can't say anything about the performance but I could imagine that it is as great as with any other S glass.
The new 120 TS is amazingly light. When I saw the first pictures it looked heavy but it is the total opposite. The build quality feels superb. Of course here as well I cannot say anything about the performance.
I saw the 30-90mm, but as I am not interested in zooms I didn't touched it. 🙂
So in general this all feels quite right. The system is expanding and Leica is really taking care of us S-guys. They also told me, that they will continue to develop the firmware for the S2.
Hope that gives some infos.
Cheers,
Pete
