[Leica] Leica S2

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

> Hi Luggers,
> Esther and I were invited out to dinner last night to a friend's home.
> He is a British cinematographer who got his start as an assistant
> cameraman on David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and has lived in Hong
> Kong for many years working now mostly on advertising videos. He was
> very keen to show me his latest acquisition - a Leica S2 - which he
> had just used for a street photography project in Melbourne. I looked
> at about 100 pictures of his Melbourne series on his 27" I Mac and I
> must admit I was pretty impressed. It was also nice to see the camera
> being used for real work rather than as jewelry for Russian or Chinese
> Oligarchs or Rock stars.
> Here's me with the gem:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/lens+pix/S2w.jpg.html
>
> No, I won't be buying one anytime soon.

not soon, but ordered ;-) suits you ;-)

Alastair: still cameraless but swinging towards Canon again out of necessity