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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: haring on January 17, 2011, 06:21:05 pm

Title: Shooting weddings with Leica S2?
Post by: haring on January 17, 2011, 06:21:05 pm

Do you know anybody who shoots weddings with a Leica S2? I would be interested to see how MF Leica copes with weddings... :)

Title: Re: Shooting weddings with Leica S2?
Post by: Carsten W on January 17, 2011, 10:53:32 pm

Quote from: haring on January 17, 2011, 06:21:05 pm

Do you know anybody who shoots weddings with a Leica S2? I would be interested to see how MF Leica copes with weddings... :)

Marc Williams (fotografz) just picked up a properly calibrated one, and will start using it soon. He currently posts on the LFU S2 forum:

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-s2-forum/?pp=50&daysprune=7

Title: Re: Shooting weddings with Leica S2?
Post by: sanzari on January 19, 2011, 04:27:13 pm

I guess the question is can you justify $50000 for equipment and how quickly can you get a return. Must be selling some big print packages to fund it.
If you already have one a studio camera then fine, but the images sizes I print a D3X or indeed D3s is already too much. I think the optics will show a difference, but the speed of the Weddings some shoot will tell me the kit will only come out at the slow or arty moments.

I would love to shoot on a 645, Phase or indeed S2 but sadly to cost of entry is just too high.Some parts of the Wedding will benefit but most of it will not. You must ask yourself if photographic royalty like Jeff Ascough or Joe Bussink or Dennis Reggie including the new wave of stars like Mike Colon, David Jay, etc dont use them, there is a reason.

I think its a nice gimmick, but the bride is unlikely to see or appreciate the difference. An editor will see the difference as will a fashion client.

Just sadly my 2 cents worth, I so want to justify one.