"Leica has dropped quite the shocker on everyone with their new Leica S2, which is a relatively compact DSLR with a monstrous 37.5-megapixel sensor. The shocking part is that the sensor size is 56% larger than a 35mm (or full frame) sensor found in “pro” level DSLRs. Kind of makes Canon’s 21.1 megapixel 1Ds Mark III look kind of quaint, eh? Leica has announced a number of lenses to accompany the new system as well."
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
Think the price is more of a shocker than the sensor size. ;-p
- ronin
I see B&H has it listed with no price and "available soon" designation -- body only though. Don't see any lenses for it on their site. I am guessing multi thousands for a lens.
- Brian Sullivan
I guess the stereotypical answer from a Ferrari salesperson .. "If you have to ask ... " :)
- Clarence Chiang
Who buys this stuff anyway? How many billionaire dilettante photogs can there be? Even a pro making very large money I think would have a hard time justifying the 7 or so times factor over a D3 for example.
- Brian Sullivan
I played with one today. Its much improved than the first gen. The feeling in your hand is much better and the device feels MUCH more solid.
- Grant Gochnauer
"All the photos were shot with Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EF 50mm f/1.4 USM at ISO3200. The high ISO capability of the 5D Mark II allows unprecedented opportunity for food photography in many restaurants that are dimly lighted. Before the 5D Mark II, I would never have been able to shoot with this quality in a restaurant as dimly lighted as The Square. Just by looking at these photos, you would never know how dimly lighted the restaurant was. You can click on the individual images for a larger view."
- Vox
from Bookmarklet
I'm reading "The Snowball" http://tinyurl.com/527wwb but only start to read about the boss himself since the first 6 chapters are dedicated to Warren's ancestries. I wonder if your book will be necessary after the 1000 pages on Warren's work :)
- Jérôme
I want to read that. The Warren Buffett American Capitalist book seems shorter and more cogent.
- Diana Blue
I found "The Snowball" very much worth reading: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2008.... Let's just say that Warren, writing about himself, doesn't brag, and under-states how hard he actually works.
- Piaw Na
Thanks for the blog! I bookmarked it. Have you read this book: Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett's Omaha: A Hedge Fund Manager's Dispatches from Inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. I've read the Warren Buffett Way and The Making of An American Capitalist, and I find WB a very interesting man - rational, patient, eccentric, and stoic.
- Diana Blue
No, I haven't read those books. So many books, so little time!
- Piaw Na
@Piaw: I read yesterday the passage about the mortgage crises you mention in your blog post. Highly relevant quote for our times.
- Jérôme
Yes, the man is clearly brilliant. It's a pity most money managers are such slimeballs, and not people like him.
- Piaw Na
"For a couple of months now, I've been using a music service that's been in a quiet (but open) beta period. It's been kind of amazing. That service is the all-new version of Lala, and it's officially throwing its doors open to the public today."
- tech.newsjunk.com
"Democrats, hit reset. Accept the fact that the race has changed utterly, that you're up against a ticket that has captured the public imagination. Now you must go out and recapture it."
- newsjunk.com
A good article indeed. - "Then Mrs. Palin, and the catastrophe of the Democratic and media response to her. Books will be written about this, but because it's so recent, and so known, we're almost not absorbing how huge it was, and is. Here was the central liberal mistake: They used the atom bomb just a few days in. They used it so brutally, and yet so ineptly, in a way so oblivious to the true contours of the field, that the radiation blew back over their own lines."
- Soulhuntre
There is good advice and great quotes all through the article. "Most crucially, the snobbery of it, the meanness of it, reminded the entire country, for the first time in a decade, what it is they don't like about the left. Really, America had forgotten. Mr. Obama's friends reminded them. Unforgettably."
- Soulhuntre
"A source inside the McCain campaign confirms a massive online fundraising haul since Sarah Palin was named as the VP -- $4.5 million in the first 24 hours, part of a $7 million overall fundraising burst. "
- newsjunk.com
"The White House says the president will probably be unable to deliver his speech in St. Paul Monday to concentrate on Hurricane Gustave, which is expected to strike Louisiana that day. Spokeswoman Dana Perino says: "Due to the hurricane, the president is unlikely to travel to Minnesota on Monday. We are working on alternate preparations.""
- newsjunk.com