Personally, I accept different pictorial looks from different cameras ... however from a lifestyle angle my biggest concern would be AF speed and versatility. While using manual focus and stopping down can nail action shots ... that is somewhat true for any camera with a decent manual focus feel to it. These lenses may lend themselves to that sort of manual control better than others, but (IMO) it remains that the AF may well be a shock to those using most any DSLR, and a bit disappointing for those expecting an marked improvement over the later models of MFD cameras.
-Marc
Marc,
there are several things I struggle with:
1) The review which D. Farkas posted said, that the S2 AF is pretty fast and accurate. This is assumed to be due to the special information stored in the lenses so the AF does not start hunting. This is totally contra dictionary to what you found.
Does that mean that you had a bad sample of an S2?
2) Fast AF and what DSLR users are expecting ..... If you had a bad sample, then a good sample would be faster, because no AF hunting or what so ever.
And further one needs to understand that in a MF camera system you are moving much larger masses as in a 35 mm DSLR system, so actually no serious user should wonder that DSLRs are faster.
There remains the question if any DSLR AF is more accurate than the single point S2 AF ????
Where also remains the issue that a DSLR user questioning all this should simply stay out of MF as long as they do NOT understand the issues you have to deal with in MF world.
Sorry to say this as harsh, but we are dealing with MF and who does not understand simply should stay out of these comparisons and not waste our time here.
And finally - thanks for your efforts and posting your findings here, I find this extremely helpful on my final MF decision process :thumbs: