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Subject: [Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!)
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:42:01 -0500
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not a doctor
nor a lawyer
nor do I play either
on tv

just a photographer
looking for images
and organ donors

;~)

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:

>
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:34 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:
>
>> (or four people
>> if you've an interest
>> in photographing
>> surviving
>> donors)
>
> are you a lawyer?
>
>
> :-)
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:15 PM, mehrdad wrote:
>>>
>>>> that system costs joust about 70 for a camera and all the  
>>>> announced lenses,
>>>> add the other three and u r looking close to 100k, they were  
>>>> saying on cnn
>>>> over the weekend that kidneys cost 25 each
>>>
>>>
>>> that's one system for every two people,
>>>
>>> trust me I'm a doctor,
>>>
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Doug Herr  
>>>> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Having just read The Luminous Landscape blubs on Leicas
>>>>>> take no prisoners attack on the entire photo industry
>>>>>> one thing stood out in my mind.
>>>>>> That the size of the S2 is smaller than the D3x and Canon 1Ds Mk3
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Leica S2 is a DSLR.
>>>>>> It just happens to be medium format and cost fortune.
>>>>>> And it just happens to blow the results obtained from the  
>>>>>> Nikon and Canons
>>>>>> away.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Having seen the preliminary S2 photos and the ratio of its size  
>>>>> to output
>>>>> quality and DSLR handling and the no-nonsense user interface  
>>>>> and what I've
>>>>> heard about the production camera's responsiveness and manual- 
>>>>> focus-ability
>>>>> I'm completely smitten with it and wish they'd hurry up and get  
>>>>> that 350mm
>>>>> APO-Elmar-S on the market.  Then I'll start selling kidneys on  
>>>>> ebay.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug Herr
>>>>> Birdman of Sacramento
>>>>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> -------------------------------------
>>>> regards, mehrdad
>>>>
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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] S2 thoughts (was: Re: M9 thoughts!))
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