Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This gets into other areas and I wonder who is really taking any real shots at the S2 I don't see anybody foolish enough. Its not going to be used for serious landscapes? We'll see and I doubt that: The other arias are serious landscape shooters don't shoot 35mm configured cameras so much. Very few of them used a Pentax 6x7 which was for people who wanted medium format but could not abide by a camera not configured like a 35. If serious landscape shooters shot medium format they shot modular cube cameras like the Hassy or Bronica or Mamiya. You don't need quick intuitive handling. Things are done more carefully. Tree's and mountains are not fast moving objects. I don't think the Leica S2 is in the same ballpark in the scheme of things as the Pentax as back then. With the Leica the optics are bottom line issues and we know we have medium format very high rez. Its handling issues though are not an issue. Serious Landscape work is normally done with a tripod. Its not a quick shooting thing. Its very carful and meditative. Like view camera work. I think in a couple of years we'll see the S2 making more of a dent into serious landscape work than the Pentax 6x7 did. Despite the cost. And many people got into the Pentax because it was really amazingly low cost. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner > From: Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:22:20 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another shot across the S2 Bow... H4D-31 > > Aren't the big customers for these kinds of cameras rental houses? > > Bill Pearce > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Man > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:57 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another shot across the S2 Bow... H4D-31 > > It's a small market. I hang out on two forum that use MFD but both are more > from the landscape / architecture crowd perspective rather than fashion > shooters. With those people, for a dSLR single piece gear, S2 is not a > major > option as Hassy / Phase One- Mamiya are more well known and more flexible > (the other segment uses tech camera like the Alpa that Bob is buying). > > Pentax is apparently selling all the 645D they can make, as is Leica with > their S2 so I suspect this Hassy will sell very well indeed. The market is > small with people changing gear all the time (unless you are on a budget, > but if you are, you probably are not in the game to begin with). I'm not > sure if the market is saturated yet so it could be growth for everybody. > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information