News: Leica’s enormous S2

Leica is to release its enormous new digital medium format offering, the S2 in December this year.

According to the British Journal of Photography, between 100 and 200 units will be available on the camera’s initial launch.

The S2 system features its own class of specially-designed lenses, providing a 35mm-size camera capable of producing imaes 37.5 megapixels in size with its 30 x 45 mm sensor.

Leica’s New Zealand distributor, Lacklands, assured Tone’s sister publication D-Photo that the S2 is on track for a local delivery sometime in the early new year, and would have pricing competitive with other medium format digital cameras.