Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find the M9 is adequate quality and will not spend the money to get into MFD as I do not need it. The S2 will have a bit of competition with the D800(E) in much the same way as the M9 does with the X-Pro1....... john -----Original Message----- Leica's problem has always been its put its emphasis on pie in the sky glass on; but on too small a format for many uses. A photojournalist or street shooter would love it but a commercial photographer would make more use from a Hasselblad system. As would a portrait photographer. As did a wedding photographer. Even somebody doing specials for magazines. Real estate beats glass. By a mile. Many Leica using photogs from day one also had a Rolleiflex somewhere. If not in the bottom of their camera bag. Leica made a medium format enlarger to print the negs you shot with it. But this is 2012 and Leica has finally with the foresight of its new leader Dr. Andreas Kaufmann broken out of the 24x36mm bottleneck... With its new S2 system. Which I believe will soon prove itself to be the most wanted system to make quality photographs out today. Outdoing Hasselblad/ Fuji. Medium format quality with a DSLR feel and handling and with by far the best glass out there today. Its taking no prisoners. > > Indeed, why I rarely used 35mm film ;-) > > john > ________________________________________ > > Bottom line, my cheap Mamiya 645 gives sharper images with its 80mm > f1.9 Mamiya lens than I get with the 50 Summicron on 35mm film. > > -- > Chris Crawford >