Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/29

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Subject: [Leica] New S lens vs. Schneider Kreuznach tilt shift glass.
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:44:55 -0700
References: <CAE3QcF5ND3RnhC83k7znBtJTzkrmXV3gGz4mAvzVOEiVhh6Ljw@mail.gmail.com> <CAD1ACCF.161A0%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,
If you go by the Digital Transitions booth, I think they may be using my
photo:
http://www.rgaphoto.com/benches/content/Bench_View_Pano_Crop_large.html
Let me know if you see it!!
Thanks,
Bob

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
rabinergroup.com>wrote:

> I played with these yesterday. Or watched the guy show them too me at
> Photoexpo. I'm not going today the snow is falling today the size of small
> gerbils.
>
> https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogSubCategoryDisplay.aspx?CID
> =1822  or
> http://tinyurl.com/4ynsxqr
>
> I've never seen anything more gorgeous with this blue trim they have on it.
> Schneider Kreuznach.
>
> Their 120 5.6 fits on your Mamiya phase 1 camera and only cost
> $5,657.00. I'd have guessed 10.
>
> They have a 90mm 4.5 for your nikon for only $3,962.00 EA
> I guess EA does not really stand for "each".
>
> https://www.schneideroptics.com/ecommerce/CatalogItemDetail.aspx?CID=1822&II
> D=8295
> because the JSK optics which are one of the very few sources to give Leica
> glass a run for their money they turn your camera, full frame or medium
> format or cropped into a view camera with a large range of tilt shifts.
>
> And while 3 to 5 thousand dollars makes a Nikon Canon user blanch a Mamiya
> user ever this is what a Leica user of today spends on his starter slow
> normal lens. Chump change.
>
> A good way to class up my Lowly Nikon D700. I saw on on a D3.
>
>
> A direct comparison between a Mamiya/phase1 with theses new lenses and the
> S2 glass would not be direct as the guy reminds me.
> Becuae as should be quite obvious we're not comparing glass. We're
> comparing
> whole systems.
> But I have no problem with comparing whole systems.
> Because when I win the lottery or start knocking off banks the system I
> could get into could be Phase 1 with the blue glass.
>
>
> --
> Mark R.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
> > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:19:34 +1000
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New S lens
> >
> > Aah so they are identical, apart from the whole being completely
> different
> > thing ;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> >
> > *Lighting- eyes- action*
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> >
> > On 29 October 2011 12:24, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> One is 3:2 and the other is 4:3 ratio......
> >>
> >> john
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>
> >>
> >> The sensor size is the same as the S2. In fact, I believe they are the
> same
> >> sensor.
> >>
> >>
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-- 
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com


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