Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am delighted you like the magnified focus feature. It is my preferred method. (a7 and XE-1) An interesting comparison would be the weight of the new SL to the R you might own. How did the camera perform exposure? You did nothing, the camera handled everything? You set the lens f-stop, the camera set the shutter? You did everything manually, setting shutter speed and aperture? Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net On Nov 30, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: PESO: I took some photos in the rain to compare the SL with the R19/2.8, the SL with the 35/2.0 Summicron and the M240 with the Summicron. As I was carrying the cameras out to the deck, I passed the kitchen scale so I weighed them. The SL with no lens weighed 966 grams. The M240 with the 35/2.0 attached weighed 961 grams, so not a huge difference. When I attach the M lenses, the SL automatically recognized the coded lenses with no further attention from me. When I attach the R lenses, I go to the menu and tell it which R lens is attached. It recognizes the lens but does not record the correct aperture. I know I took several at F/8 and used hyperfocal focusing, but none of them came up as having f/8 for the aperture. The SL is much easier to focus. I tried out both the magnifying in the EVF and the focus peaking. Both work fine but the magnified EVF is much easier to see. You press the bottom right button once and it zooms to 100% in the EVF, press it twice and it zooms to 200%. Focus and touch the shutter button and it zooms back out and takes the photo. With the auto-focus SL lens, there are several focusing formats to choose from in the SL and you can also touch the screen and have it focus there or move the toggle switch (they call it the joystick) next to the EFG to choose a focus spot. I find the screen and the toggle switch to be easiest and fastest. But these are all manually focused with M and R lenses. The first one is an experiment with the Noctilux last night using the magnified EVF to focus on Tom's eyelashes instead of the glasses frame. http://www.pbase.com/image/161961923 The next three are straight from the camera as DNGs, converted to jpegs as they are exported with no other adjustments. Leica SL with 19/2.8 Elmarit R: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/161961755 Leica SL with 35/2.0 Summicron M: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/161961757 Leica M240 with 35/2.0 Summicron M: http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/161961758 I did some bracketed exposures and merged the photos for HDR with each camera and each lens. These are adjusted for color and exposure: *http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/leica_sl&page=7 <http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/leica_sl&page=7>* The SL will also bracket the 3 exposures as DNGs and make a merged jpeg from them automatically. I found those needed more adjusting than making them myself. What do you think? Tina -- Tina Manley http:// <http://t.sidekickopen29.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XYgfmKYPW4WzBHl3Mx_9dW3LqWkM56dQ1Jf7P8b5b02?t=http%3A%2F%2Ftina-manley.artistwebsites.com%2F&si=6038418186567680&pi=3f1c7a4e-c03b-4b6c-d0a4-595245935e69> www.tinamanley.com http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information