Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/17

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Subject: [Leica] Leica S2 visits Lambeau Field
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:14:01 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

George Lottermoser wrote:

>
>On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Doug Herr wrote:
>
>> I recently calculated that if I sold all of my R equipment including both 
>> the 280mm f/4 APO and the recent, hard-earned backup 280mm f/4 APO I 
>> could afford a well-used S2, an adapter for Contax 645 lenses, a Zeiss 
>> 350mm Tele-Apotessar, extension tubes and a 1.4x Mutar.  It would do for 
>> 99% of my photos.  The other 1%  would be covered by a Zeiss Contax 645 
>> 120mm APO-Makro-Planar.  I have to stop calculating such stuff.
>
>I wish you could rent the kit
>and find out if the fantasy
>synchs with reality.
>

Exactly my thoughts too.

>As 35DSLR-like as it seems to be
>I'd guess that Medium-Format idiosyncrasies
>still show up;
>resulting in a,
>"wish I had the DMR/280 Apo on this trek."

Especially where a trek is involved.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com




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