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At our December 3rd Leica Open House (and the morning after) we had an opportunity to put a production S2 through it’s paces for the first time. While the firmware was not finalized and contained some minor glitches (which is standard for a camera not yet shipping) we were very glad to be able to collect real world samples. Among other tests we tested the 70mm and 180mm at each available aperture*.

Mirror up was used on a heavy tripod and the very neat self-timer-plus-MUP function was used whereby you push the shutter release and the mirror goes up, waits for mirror vibration to reduce and then takes the exposure. Aperture priority metering was used, and the images were captured as quickly as a careful workflow and the buffer allowed. The camera (i.e. the aperture) was controlled by the computer using Leica’s Image Shuttle program (still in beta).

*One of the firmware/software glitches we experienced was that when the 180mm lens was set to above f/13.5  that the metadata would be recorded correctly, the camera LCD, but the actual aperture opening would be f/13.5. So those files were excluded to avoid confusion.

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