as i already posted in the forum, i doing my studies for 40mp MFD. leica S2 is there but very soon i have realized, partly from many good arguments on this forum, that the S2 is not a fully ready tool. now i just downloaded some DNG files from Guy's iDisk public folder and tried to play with them in LR myself. just for example, contrary to the dull light were are talking here, i know the issues with some of those photos guy uploaded, i live in israel and playing with sun-light is familiar to me, i know what to expect from film, and from digital.
now i really realize what Marc has commented about the FLAT look of S2 files. i really tried, tried hard and was sitting half a hour on those, i simply could not get a pleasing to me file. what takes minutes to bring a scanned file, or a digital file (like from leaf, or even like from canon 5d2 that im not exactly exited about) was a hard work with S2 and never got there. FLAT.
i just compare it with a slide film (provia medium format) that i have made for fashion in sunny-light... what a depth to the photographs, on light table or scanned proof printed etc...
more over... there are some ugly artifacts, like in hair for example. i know it can happen with MFD, but i simply had troubles with it more than i could imagine. some more issues, but those mentioned are enough.
now, the resolution seems great, the lens quality and character seems great too as far as i could put it apart from general experience of tuning the files. but FLAT.
so ok, i understand this is a conversion issue, and guy talked about it in his review, and nothing really changed since then, or not improved enough. but as it is now, leave aside the completition from pahse/leaf/hassy 40mp, as it is now, i would rather prefer film slides than S2. simply because i have MUCH better look, and the extra work with film does not look like a big issue compared to the extra work with S2 dng.
since i really like this camera, aesthetic, concept design etc ... i have to say, that my experience i described is very limited, but enough for me not to look at this camera as an option, until there significant improvements. again, im not talking about "creative" part, this is very personal indeed, i also like contrast, punch etc... im talking about experience when working on the file and the result i get, especially "look"/"character" etc...