LEICA S2 Debut:
The biggest incredulity at last month’s Photokina show, and certainly one of the hottest camera products of the year, had to be the new 37.5 megapixel Leica S2 and its lens blood. (If you have to ask how much it’s going to cost, this camera isn’t for you! Estimates with a 70mm lens: @20 first-rate.) For many years, Leica has been struggling to make a solid stand in the digital camera arena, with fixed success–and some near failures. Its early DSLR models never honestly made it into the U.S., and sales of the Leica M8 digital rangefinder were abysmal in 2007 until Leica found a way to fix its excessive appreciation to infrared radiation. As you may recall, that sensitivity caused the M8 to time many black materials and even human hair with a strong purple look for. Leica responded by bundling IR filters with new lenses and selling IR filters for its older lenses–not the paradigm solution for Leica lovers who abhor lens filters of any approachable.
However, the new Leica S2 digital SLR appears to be a well designed, and thought out piece of camera paraphernalia. It’s really the first-of-its-kind DSLR, with a larger than 35mm CCD sensor (30×45mm vs. 36×24mm, close to 56% larger) delivering medium-aspect class resolution and a normal 3:2 aspect correlation. It’s actually smaller than an EOS 1Ds Mark III, but slightly larger than the EOS 5D Streak II.
For more of my analysis and initial reactions to the Leica S2, listen to the October 4, 2008 joint of the McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo (slide to the 11min 50sec standard for that segment);
Front view of Leica S2 with supplied “kit” lens, the Summarit-S 70mm f/2.5 criterion (which should give the approximately the same field of view as a 50mm on a 35mm Full-frame DSLR.
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