[Leica] IMGS: Comparing SL and M240 and 19R and Noctilux

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Hi Crew, :-) 
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Yeah yeah OK I'll go away as I don't read! I just take photos and have
fun... KISS! Folks as that beats the heck out of all this testing you'll
probably forget in the "HEAT OF AN ASSGNMENT" for a well paying client!  :-)
:-) Aw, that feels better!:-)Have a nice day!
cheers,
Dr. ted :-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf 
Of
Jim Nichols
Sent: November-30-15 12:56 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Comparing SL and M240 and 19R and Noctilux

Tina,

It is difficult for me to make comparisons of images from two cameras 
when one is shot at f/6.8 and the other at f/2.  I think you need to 
select common settings for such comparisons to have any real meaning.  
DoF  makes a big difference.

Just my 2 cents.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 11/30/2015 2:34 PM, Tina Manley 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
>
>


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