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Hi Victor,GMB...a nice image array showing the flexibility of the S2. I like your travel 'eye' and variety!
I do most of my shooting while traveling, and am curious what percentage of the time you find the auto focus grabs the point you want. Coming from MF Contax and RF MF, I have tried the S2 a few times and it is better, but I still hear the "I mostly use MF" from the pros.
That said, I also hear that the AF has improved with the firmware changes (I still want spot AF!!!)
I am off to Italy for a trek, with the S2 (I am leaning in that direction) and wondered how often the AF would suffice. On previous trips, for landscape and pano I found better performance with focus at infinity (NOT hyperfocal distance; it works in therory, but as Robert has shown here a number of times, HF distance can be a poor compromise, esp for wider lenses.)
Anyway, just curious. I tend toward MF out of habit (doing this for over 60 years! ) but sometimes the AF is needed to get a fleeting image.
reagrds
Victor
Victor,GMB...a nice image array showing the flexibility of the S2. I like your travel 'eye' and variety!
I do most of my shooting while traveling, and am curious what percentage of the time you find the auto focus grabs the point you want. Coming from MF Contax and RF MF, I have tried the S2 a few times and it is better, but I still hear the "I mostly use MF" from the pros.
That said, I also hear that the AF has improved with the firmware changes (I still want spot AF!!!)
I am off to Italy for a trek, with the S2 (I am leaning in that direction) and wondered how often the AF would suffice. On previous trips, for landscape and pano I found better performance with focus at infinity (NOT hyperfocal distance; it works in therory, but as Robert has shown here a number of times, HF distance can be a poor compromise, esp for wider lenses.)
Anyway, just curious. I tend toward MF out of habit (doing this for over 60 years! ) but sometimes the AF is needed to get a fleeting image.
reagrds
Victor
just curious: why was it in Solms?My S2 is back from Solms
When I put the microprism-screen in I found out that the position of the mirror/screen needed some slight adjustment. Now everything is perfect again.just curious: why was it in Solms?
Java, would you mind telling us a little more about your technique (your photographs are terrific). For instance, are you using the autofocus in these portraits and recomposing, or are you using manual focus. And, are these tripod shots? (They look to be handheld, but thought I'd ask.)Thank you all for the comments
I have S2 approximately half a year. I bought it from CEH. I also have 35mm 70mm and 120mm to it. I have brought quite a lot of material from Ethiopia. I'll add another photos soon but I have to edit them first.
I do mostly portraits of people and before Leica S2 I had A900 where I used Zeiss 24-70mm 2,8 + Zeiss 135mm 1,8, Zeiss 16-35mm 2,8. I've recently sold system A900. I know comparing these two systems is not fair but I've been photographing with A900 for 2 years.
I shoot 98% of pictures with almost opened aperture. All lenses 35mm, 70mm and 120mm are excelent at this, detail 1:1 is incredible. I'll be printing a lot of photographs at big format and I'm looking forward to it. That was the main reason I bought Leica S2.
Everything was shot in a natural light in Ethiopia, most of the time in shadow. Balancing white in shadow – expressing the skin colour is amazing. S A900 had sometimes big problem with it.
In A900 I wasn't satisfied with the result on sharp sunlight(morning and evening), there was always something disturbing with colours. Leica S2 is handling it perfectly. Colours are flawless and DR is superb.
I was really pleasantly surprised with ISO 640, I'll add some photos later.
Photographing with S2 requires a whole different approach – autofocus in the centre- tripod in ethiopia is used in 50%
I'm highly satisfied with the system after my trip to Ethiopia.
The first four photos are 120 mm
There is Exif in all the pictures.
The first picture is still made in Schevening, right?Hi all,first post here from an S2 owner,I was drawn to this superb thread and figured I may as well throw a couple of snaps into the mix...
the 2nd one is nothing much but I thought it was a good display of the S70mm performance,very sharp..(although I doubt you could tell from an online jpeg..)
Rob