This is great news for people that want to upgrade to the Leica but don't have the funds switch over their entire system at once. Lens adapters afford them the opportunity to use their current lenses on the S2 body while waiting to get the funds together to upgrade to Leica lenses at a later date.
Man, why are there so many S2 bashers?
I tried the camera for a few days and it was a beautiful piece of kit. It's a new system and Leica are a small company.
How about we all start bashing Alpa, Sinar, Arca-Swiss, Linhof et al because they are more expensive than Fotoman? The whole "Leica must be crap / in trouble because they dare sell an adaptor for other peoples lenses" argument is stupid.
Most of the bashing has to do with a lack of understanding of the S2 in terms of use-value. When people don't understand how it can be used as a tool within certain professional contexts then the only thing they have to measure it by is it's associated cost, which of course makes little sense since they don't understand it's use-value in the first place.
The S2 is marketed as a camera made for professionals. Many of the features that a lower or mid-level shooter might consider to be professional might not be the same as what a higher-end shooter might consider professional quality and this leads to huge misunderstandings. A photographer's status or his ambition to achieve a certain status will often color his definition of a word and his opinion of camera features. That might be elitist, but it's also the reality and truth of the photo industry.
For example, a low-end shooter might consider high ISO a professional feature since he's forced to work with available light. But a photographer working with large budgets might consider high ISO a low quality feature since he has the capacity to light every scene with a crew. In this example, the low-end shooter might think that the S2 (in it's current form) isn't up to his definition of professional standards since the high ISO isn't useful for his work. Meanwhile, the higher-end photographer considers high ISO to be a feature that only lower-end photographers worry about. In fact, the high end shooter might actually consider reliance on high ISO to be a sign of low quality work that doesn't match his professional standard. I'm just using ISO as an example because it's one of the common criticisms encountered online in discussions about the S2. But the point of the example isn't really about ISO as much as it is about how the definition of what is a professional standard can be vastly different depending on context and status of the photographer (or his aspiration to status) within the industry.