S2 in the field - something other than Leica dealer shoots

[Bo_Lorentzen]

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The Leica s2 field-test

 

Have not read the text yet, but its raining S2 images of a sorts I like a lot better than ladies on color-stripes with umbrella lights.

 

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[lct]

Soft images on my monitor. They hardly do justice to the camera.

[Guest farbtupfer]

He used a Nikon vs. S2. Interessting would be a S2 vs M9...

[Bo_Lorentzen]

You can't expect to evaluate ANY large image on a web-posting, its all just words until one have a print in the hands.

 

How would a rangefinder M9 compare meaningfully to a SLR S2. ? The camera is meant to be a MF quality SLR in a compact (somewhat) body size, comparing to the use and operation and files from a Nikon is perfectly meaningful, as the S2 supposedly would be a step up in quality while being equally portable, which is the intend of Leica in the first place... they never meant to compare to a M9.

 

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[Guido]

comparing to the use and operation and files from a Nikon is perfectly meaningful, as the S2 supposedly would be a step up in quality while being equally portable

To be precise, he compared the S2 to a Nikon D300 (a late-2007, superseded 12MP crop-factor camera) with a 18-200 consumer-grade lens (really not among the best in Nikon's stable; I know because I owned this very combo myself). To top it off, he shot the images at f/22!

 

I doubt he could have done any worse than that. The image comparison really isn't meaningful in any way, nor does it do the S2 any justice.

[lct]

...How would a rangefinder M9 compare meaningfully to a SLR S2....

The S2 is only 25% larger than the M9 in term of sensor length, sensor height, sensor diagonal and circle of confusion and it doesn't loose more than 20% in terms of DoF. It is very far from a 6x9 or even a 6x6 camera from those standpoints.

[zlatkob]

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Soft images on my monitor. They hardly do justice to the camera.

 

Agreed.