Greetings all, I have crept out of my 'radio silence' on the news release of the Leica S2...... One may ask if there was a Leica S1, and actually there was....although it was a tethered studio cam rather than this (r)evolutionary breakaway that Leica has termed the S2. The S1 was the 'first' digital Leica with 5140 X 5140 pixels! See: http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/00GqzV This is a rather long article from the New Yorker circa 2005 about an exemplary effort using the S1: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/11/050411fa_fact?currentPage=all Moving on to today's Leica S2, here are other sites with more info. : http://www.s.leica-camera.com/ http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08092301_leica_s2.asp http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=64119 Wishing you all "Sunny 16" as we move into Autumn! Eric Chan ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: http://www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/