Mark Gowin
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The last photo with the gnarly tree is my favorite of this set. It would be even better if the bit of dark foliage wasn't in the upper left corner.
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So I guess this must be the grave of someone special. I like to go there another time with better background information:Very nice Tom... I like the second in the set. Placing a rock on the monument is part of the Jewish tradition and serves as a reminder that the family has visited and the grave is attended and cared for.
Hi Tom,So I guess this must be the grave of someone special. I like to go there another time with better background information
Another beautiful photo ceh. It appears you spend quite a lot of time in the mountains.............................................
:thumbs:Georg!I picked up the S2 in Germany yesterday. The dealer was the same where Tom had bought his and Tom came to the shop with his family and they, my wife, and myself had a coffee afterward. Unfortunately, it was already getting dark so Tom and I could not go for an S2 shoot out, but may be next time.
There are, unfortunately, also three issues that I encountered with the camera but I hope they can be fixed easily or are due to user error.
First, and clearly the most problematic, is that the SF58, which I bought new on Friday, won't fire on the S2 (it works flawlessly on the M9). When on the S2, the flash symbol appears in the view find, the flash it sends out some red lights, but won't fire when the shutter is pressed. I tried everything and several times but without success (I also switched the camera off before putting on the flash and I even reset the camera to factory settings to be sure there was not the odd setting). Any leads appreciated.
Second, when previewing, zooming into shots is sometimes slow. Specifically, I zoom in, but it takes time before the zoomed picture appears. (Note, I have a new 60MB/s Scandisk card).
Third, there seems to be an issue with either the information regarding card capacity our my mathematical abilities. My understanding is that compressed DNGs are files of some 39Mb each. Thus, an 8GB card should give some 200 shots and a 16 GB some 400. However, when I put the 16 GB card in, it only showed 201 free shots and the 8 GB card only 101 shots (after formatting).
Beside the above mentioned issues, overall experience after a half day of shooting pretty good. I realized however, that I will be on a steep learning curve, in particular the very shallow depth of field and risk of motion blurr with the larger sensor. Also, for the past 5 years I only shot rangefinder (Leica M7, 8, 9 and Hassi Xpan), and I have to get used to the size of the S2. But I am hopeful that it will be the beginning of a long and lasting friendship.
Finally, in the good tradition of this thread, my first S2 shots posted include a dog shot.
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Looking at the other posts, the choice was between a dog, gorgeous models hanging out on the pool, snowy mountains, or little babies. I don't have the latter any more, there are no mountains to speak of anywhere close, and trying to persuade a model to pose in a bikini at 4 degree Celsius seemed a bit of a stretch . So I went for the dog, even though a black dog in poor lightning is not an easy target for the S2. Several shots had the nose but not the eyes in focus.
The others were grabbed for fun during the walk with the dog.
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Georg
Thanks Marc. I am really happy I joined the club :thumbup: (no Gaucho Marks second thoughts here ). Your many postings on this forum and on LUF were a great help for me. Odd thing with the counting, but once I noted that the number did not change whether the setting was compressed or not, I realized that it must be something stupid.:thumbs:Georg!
Nice, natural looking first post of images.
Not problems but user error
The SF58 will not fire unless set to TTL HSS in the flash menu under mode. If set to TTL, it will not fire. It is just the way it is.
The capacity of the card is determined by full RAW files ... when I have the camera set to uncompressed DNG, the number is 403 with a 32 Gig Sandisk Extreem Pro, with the camera set to Compressed DNG the number remains at 403. 201 shots with a 16 gig card is correct. What is important is that it shows what you have left as you shoot.
Can't answer the zoom question without seeing how fast it actually is for you.
-Marc
Thanks Peter. A great club indeed, but the entry fee is pretty stiff!Welcome to the club Georg!