Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Indeed; the 70 is amazing - just not very 'normal' - as are all the S2 lenses I have seen. At that price and size point, Leica's designers had some pretty luxurious room to move in terms of materials and construction. I haven't seen any of the CS lenses, but not being a studio or flash user, if I ever decided I needed an S2 I would just get the regular lenses anyway. I wonder if the leaf shutter lengthens the shutter lag? I imagine all the wides for the S2 would cause quite a bit of angst during design - meeting Leica's performance targets can't be easy. Marty On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Marty no dispute on the numbers from me of course. I guess that Leica > Camera > judged that a 70mm was more useful for the S2's intended purposes > (fashion/studio)? Those probably aren't identical to those of legacy 35mm > SLR design thoughts. > The 70 certainly is superb on the S2 albeit the central shutter caused > delays and adds quite a bit more to the costs too. > I seem to remember someone from Solms candidly remarking that they wish > they > hadn't mentioned a 30 in their roadmap as it proved to be much tougher than > they expected! > > Cheers > Geoff > > *Lighting- eyes- action* > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > ?On 2011-10-27, at 7:45 PM, Marty Deveney wrote: >> >> It has an ?84?, 74?, 53? (diagonal, horizontal, vertical) angle of >> view, the same as a 24 mm lens on a 24x36mm frame. >> >> The roadmapped but unannounced 24/2.8 for the S2 will be very >> interesting. >> >> I agree that the 70 is far from normal. >> >> Marty >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >