played with a nice camera today - the Leica S2

[bomberman]

Am still thinking about it! It was a demo day a friend of a friend organised. very nice camera, solid as a rock. i don't really understand much about it but apparently it's a medium format sensor in an SLR body. Only one AF point in the middle which was a bit odd... noisy over iso 640

 

[HoppyUK]

Did you ask about the price?

 

[Skyline On Fire]

The S2 is around 20 grand is it not?

The sheer amount of lenses you could buy for that, not to mention a couple of 5Dmk2's....

 

[Cistron]

I've seen one in Harrods today. Truly a beast.

The sheer amount of lenses you could buy for that

Won't be hand-manufactured Leica-glass though.

 

[Laudrup]

£16k+ for the body and £4k+ a lens it's in the realms of fantasy for most owning it. Guy tests one out here:

http://dfarkas.blogspot.com/2010/07/testing-leica-summarit-s-35mm-f25-asph.html

 

[bomberman]

the one i had hold of was 20K for the body and 10K for the lens!

 

[Laudrup]

What lens was on it, a 70mm?

 

[bomberman]

They had 4 different lenses, the 35, 70, 180 and another i forget what focal length

EDIT: and a 120. Oh, and 3 more bodies to go with them!

Bling Bling!