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Yes, it really is a wonderful image. The motion blur makes all the subtle colors in the sky and seawater blend very nicely. The photo reminds me of the Dutch painters of the seventeenth century. And the seascape with these colors remind me of William Turner too. Well done!

Outstanding colors, mood and composition. Thanks for sharing!

Exactly, there seems to be a trend towards larger sensors in video/digital cinema:

… Panavision unveiled a prototype for a digital camera that will have a sensor equivalent to 70mm…

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/01/red-epic-dragon-arri-alexa-sony-f55-f65-panavision-70mm-camera/

The diagonal of ‘regular' 65 mm (52.5 x 23 mm) film…[Read more]

I guess if the blackmagic cam can take the heat, surely a body the size of an S could manage. Anyway, you're right, that's just one of many problems that would need to be solved.

Like I said, video would have to stand out and be top notch to be worth the trouble. If the S line could produce high quality video, that would make quite a few…[Read more]

Rob, a CCD and a CMOS version may very well be a good idea. I've read somewhere that around the announcement of the S system Leica talked about bringing different S models. A high ISO CMOS reportage S camera should be interesting for documentary work, perhaps with a pancake 45 mm that Rolo was suggesting?

David Farkas;5796 wrote: I'd love to…

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RVB;5795 wrote: I agree,CCD has great colour and tonality at base ISO,a Dalsa sensor with 4microns (4microns on the S sensor gives +100mp) with sensor + and 13-14stops DR would be irresistible.. 😀 and a monochrome version..

+1 I'm quite happy with the colors and the IQ the S2 gives me and I'd like more MP's and DR.

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I'd also prefer a fast focusing portrait lens, an f2.0 would be fine. I'm not sure about the focal length though. A 100 mm would perhaps be too close to the 70 mm. A 150 mm would be better for me and I'd like it to be truly a portrait lens in such a way that it becomes legendary for the beautiful way in which it renders skin(-tones) and faces in general.

Thanks Gage, I just wanted to know the aperture you used.
Congrats on your 24 mm. It looks wonderful.

Thanks Gage, about the EXIF, if you're a LR user, you can set ‘include EXIF' on export. As for the OOF picture, I see what you mean, I think the ‘bokeh' of this lens looks wonderful in this shot, very smooth and soft.
The other two really look amazing, sharp and nice contrast into the corners.

Thanks, Peter

Thanks for sharing, two questions if I may:

1 Why'd you take out the EXIF? To me that's the most interesting part of looking at pics on this forum.

2 What's the purpose of showing the first picture that you called OOF?

Congratulations and thanks!

Please post some results with this combo, I'd be curious to see what these lenses can do on the S2.

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http://www.leicaboutiquelisse.nl/nl/contact

Hi Mark, you could try the Leica store Berlin:

http://www.leica-store-berlin.de/de/details/kategorie/s-system/produkt/leica-s-adapter-h-1.html

Just a quick update: the second adapterI tried had exactly the same issues as menos describes. This made me reconsider my purchase. I've sent the adapter back for a refund, obviously there are adapters that work flawlessly, but you know, twice bitten … I cannot work with an adapter that is unreliable. I'll stick to S lenses for now.

Hi Jack, thanks for sharing. I like the way the sunlight brings to life the trees in the foreground in version one. OTOH I prefer the shadowless pathway in the second version and I can see how this is very important for the composition, because it directs the eye to the background without any shadows sort of blocking the view into the distance.…[Read more]

Stephan, I really like the look of these images too. Care to share your secret sauce and tell us how you arrived at these colors and contrast?

Sorry to hear this. I hope Leica can sort out these issues because I really like the idea of adapting lenses on the S system. But for €1729,- I would expect an adapter to work flawlessly.

After 3 weeks I'm still waiting for a replacement, mine was DOA.

Jack and David,

thanks, that's good advice, the difference in download-time is certainly worth carrying the CF reader.

As a side note, the S2 seems to prefer the CF card. When I first got the S2, I tried to update the firmware with an SD card, but couldn't get it to work. With a CF the camera recognized the firmware and did the update…[Read more]

Thank you for pointing me to your article, David. I remember reading it at the time, but had completely forgotten about the ‘parallel' writing.

Anyway, I have a 32 Gb SD card which I will use in the S2 without the CF in the camera. This will make downloading the files on my MBP easier, since I won't need an extra card reader for the…[Read more]

What a wonderful forum this is! I had the same issue, while using parallel on my S2 shooting DNG only, the SD card stayed empty …
A Google search pointed me to this thread, problem solved. That is to say I'm glad I found out it's not my S2 or me doing something wrong, but I find the DNG to CF and JPG to SD a bit odd. Calling this ‘parallel'…[Read more]