Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/03

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Subject: [Leica] S2 vs. 645D
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:26:29 -0800
References: <CAF8hL-Hz_cBE1Lx=oz8F8ts8U6kUCRT-eCQjL2OFLMPq2_Ttxg@mail.gmail.com> <002901ccf9c5$66bdf3a0$3439dae0$@chiaroscuro.co.nz>

The genesis of the camera seems to be that Pentax finally finished it so
that it can make the company more appealing to Hoya, but then it got wildly
popular (well, wildly is a relative term in medium format world). Now
another owner later, they are certainly taking their time releasing new
lens. There is one wide lens already: 25mm which is even wider than the new
Leica S2 35mm but one will have to make do with the older 645 or 6x7 lens
in the mean time. The performance varies so you may have to try several
lens to get one that performs well, but they are dirt cheap though,
relatively speaking.

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:12 PM, John McMaster <john at 
chiaroscuro.co.nz>wrote:

> Pentax don't seem to be rushing out new/wider lenses for it, not sure
> (either way) of the quality of the lenses from the film days.
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> If I can finagled $11K, I'd buy the Pentax 645D in a heartbeat. \
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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