Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] BIG new Leica - TINA
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:36:09 -0400
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You can use all of the Leica M and R lenses on it with adapters but they
won't be autofocus.  Supposedly the very large, bright viewfinder makes it
easier to manually focus them.

Tina

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> The Leica SL with a small lens on it would be near pocketable (jacket
> exterior pocket) unlike the Nikon. But like the M
>
> I think we need to not define a camera body by the stupidly huge lens
> someone puts on it. Any camera body can have a modest to compact optic on
> front of it instead of a metal munching fast zoom or a zoom with an overly
> wide range... And VR makes a lens way heavier and I think bulkier.
>
> I'm saying put more Leicalike glass in front of these bodies and we can see
> how they compare with an M with a typical M optic on it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/22/15 3:50 PM, "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting.  He also seems to state it has better image quality than
> the M.
> > Here is a quote:
> >
> > "The SL is not a cheap camera ? EUR6,000+ for the body and a further
> > EUR4,000+ for each lens makes this the preserve of the very wealthy,
> though
> > in reality I suspect most of Leica?s existing audience will see this one
> as
> > a no-brainer. M lenses are now virtually native, as are R lenses; they?re
> > easy to focus and image quality is better than from the M cameras. It
> would
> > have been nice to see more resolution, but I suspect this might have
> eaten
> > uncomfortably into S system sales. I actually suspect this camera is the
> > beginning of the end of the M resurgence ? a typical complaint from M
> users
> > I know is one of deteriorating eyesight and difficulty in achieving
> focus.
> > We no longer have that problem. And for those used to paying $7,000+ for
> a
> > body, the SL isn?t a stretch at all."
> >
> > He also goes on a bit about the size.   BIG
> >
> > Aram Langhans
> > (Semi) Retired  Science Teacher
> > & Unemployed photographer
> >
> > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin
> himself
> > would ever have dared dream.?   James D. Watson
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John McMaster [mailto:john at mcmaster.fr]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 11:58 AM
> > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] BIG new Leica - TINA
> >
> > It is the lenses, almost same size and weight as S lenses!
> >
> > https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5790/21615453253_1c85b372e2_c.jpg
> >
> > SL compared to a D810 with 24-120/4 lens....
> >
> > (from
> > http://blog.mingthein.com/2015/10/21/premiere-review-2015-leica-sl-601/
> )
> >
> > john
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > It's really not that big of a camera, but folks are hung up on this idea
> > that a mirrorless camera has to be a tiny little thing.
> > SL size compared to a digital M:
> > https://tinyurl.com/ppbdsr8
> >
> > I look forward to seeing what you can do with it, Tina.
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > On 10/21/2015 3:17 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> >> Has anybody posted a photo of it compared to the size of the M9 or the
> >> M240?  The Sony and Fuji mirrorless cameras are actually too small and
> >> too light for me.
> >>
> >> Tina
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
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