Oh ****......:angry:
Very sorry to hear. I understand your reaction. Reliability and trust in equipment is key.
However, I wonder whether you are not pouring out the kid with the bathtub. From what I have read so far, there have not been repeat complaints about the S2 being unreliable or about the shutter locks you experienced.
Anyway, many thanks for sharing your experience with the S2 and your thoughts about the system and working with it :clap:. We all benefit from this. Good luck with your Hassy and Sony systems. May be a third try with the S3 in a couple of years
Georg
PS: Out of curiosity: would you mind sharing what was the problem with the first S2P you got?
Appreciate the thoughts Georg.
I don't know the degree of complaints regarding the S2, some have sent it back (posted here), others have had more than one camera and are willing to put up with it (also posted here). How many is not terribly relevant to me ... if the one in my hand works ... then fine, if not ... then bye-bye.
Issues can be "one of", or more wide spread with any camera I suppose. One camera with issues and any company deserves the benefit of the doubt. To Leica's credit they replaced the first one with a cracked sensor immediately ... and probably would replace this one (if there are any available in the US) ... or send a new battery to test if that is a patterned problem they've noted.
However, I've spent over two intense weeks sorting through issues and concerns about basic stuff like the lock-up, AF, and flash operation with two different cameras. It's been like eating too much chocolate :ROTFL:
The question is why, at these incredibly high prices, does a photographer have to sort through issues after over a year in production? MFD is already a challenge to master when working perfectly. Throw in a bunch of questionable issues and/or real mis-steps and the task becomes far more difficult ... and somewhat unnerving.
While I seemed to grasp the S2 AF issue published by others, and seemed to overcome it in more leisure test conditions, it is the real world, on the job, that is the acid test. Of the 3 shots I was able to take before lock-up yesterday, one was hopelessly back focused, and a second one was marginal. The 150 shots taken with the Sony and fast aperture lenses were ALL in focus.
Not to beat a horse beyond dead ... but I've used a string of Hasselblads, one upgrade to another, on the job for years and years now, in raging Michigan winter storms, monsoon like down-pours, intense tropical heat ... for 8 hours straight ... and have been very lucky I guess ... my biggest issue has been the stupid eye cup falling off.
So, it doesn't matter if the S optics were forged by the Gods, and the camera designed by the ghost of Ferdinand Porsche, real beauty is the images you actually capture, not what you are carrying. Yes, it is wonderful when beauty and brains come together perfectly, which, in my specific instance, is what was promised and not delivered.
Just bad luck perhaps ... it does happen.
-Marc