All of the stuff about the S2 being an "inbetweener" is fast becoming disproved IMO and direct experience.
This camera and its lens system punches well beyond it's class, and is every bit able to run with the big dogs of the MFD world. Stats would seem to indicate otherwise, but real world use is the real test, and I've now used this system and a bunch of different MFD rigs long enough to make a few observations.
Not only has the S2 taken over a LOT of the 35mm DSLR duties and spoiled me against using any 35mm kit, it has relentlessly crept into applications I'd normally use my H4D/60 for. More so than I ever thought would be viable. I recently did a studio shoot and used both cameras about evenly, sometimes swapping from one to the other for the same set-up. Frankly, I was hard pressed to distinguish the IQ between them, and if not for the different ratios, would have had to check the exif info to tell them apart. I'd have to be making ginormous prints to see any real difference ... or cropping a ridiculous amount.
Frankly, I'm not only pleasantly pleased by this, I'm quite surprised .
Also, for my applications, I do not find the lens spread to be limiting at all. I haven't run into any shoot where I was lamenting the lack of something wider or longer ... at least not yet. However, I do wish Leica would get the Leaf Shutter versions out soon.
Here are a few applications of S2 shots done for a project (I made the S2 poster for myself as a side line ).
All shot in the studio using a Profoto D4-2400 and either a Mola Beemm Beauty dish, or a Profoto 6' Strip light with a 4" strip modifier mounted on an overhead boom arm. This was a fast paced shoot as the bodybuilder could only pop the muscles for a brief time, and I had to move quickly for each set-up ... which I found the S2 to be more agile at doing than the H4D/60.
-Marc
This camera and its lens system punches well beyond it's class, and is every bit able to run with the big dogs of the MFD world. Stats would seem to indicate otherwise, but real world use is the real test, and I've now used this system and a bunch of different MFD rigs long enough to make a few observations.
Not only has the S2 taken over a LOT of the 35mm DSLR duties and spoiled me against using any 35mm kit, it has relentlessly crept into applications I'd normally use my H4D/60 for. More so than I ever thought would be viable. I recently did a studio shoot and used both cameras about evenly, sometimes swapping from one to the other for the same set-up. Frankly, I was hard pressed to distinguish the IQ between them, and if not for the different ratios, would have had to check the exif info to tell them apart. I'd have to be making ginormous prints to see any real difference ... or cropping a ridiculous amount.
Frankly, I'm not only pleasantly pleased by this, I'm quite surprised .
Also, for my applications, I do not find the lens spread to be limiting at all. I haven't run into any shoot where I was lamenting the lack of something wider or longer ... at least not yet. However, I do wish Leica would get the Leaf Shutter versions out soon.
Here are a few applications of S2 shots done for a project (I made the S2 poster for myself as a side line ).
All shot in the studio using a Profoto D4-2400 and either a Mola Beemm Beauty dish, or a Profoto 6' Strip light with a 4" strip modifier mounted on an overhead boom arm. This was a fast paced shoot as the bodybuilder could only pop the muscles for a brief time, and I had to move quickly for each set-up ... which I found the S2 to be more agile at doing than the H4D/60.
-Marc
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