Trivia (V)

Today I was offered a Leica S2 for the weekend.
Couldn't accept it though.
Damn...
:(

Quoting from Luminous Landscape, the basics of the S2's design brief are as follows...

• A 37.5 Megapixel Kodak CCD sensor measuring 30X45mm. This offers a 3:2 aspect ratio, the same as 35mm.
• A 6 micron pixel pitch, the same as the Phase One P65+'s sensor
• 1.5 frames / second shooting rate (impressive for a sensor of this size)
• Autofocus lenses
• Dual shutter system; a focal plane shutter and also a range of lenses with leaf shutters (CS)
• 16 bit files – DNG format raws and in-camera JPGs (according to Leica true 16 bit, not 14 bit padded to fill a 16 bit space)
• ISO 100 – 1600
• Weather sealed construction – both body and lenses
• Ships with full Adobe Lightroom 2.4

Steve Huff's excellent review of the Leica S2 is up on his site here: stevehuffphoto.com