[Leica] SL system forthcoming glass

[tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)]

I have the SL 50/1.4 which is a fantastic prime lens.  I've never been
interested in zooms but the 24-90 really exceeded my expectations so I took
a chance on the 90-280.
I still love my M's, especially the M240 and MM, but I really like the
auto-focus on the SL.  I have adapters and can use all of my R and all of
my M lenses on the SL.  That's one great thing about Leica - nothing is
obsolete.  I'm still using all of my lenses made many years ago with my
most modern digital cameras.

Tina

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> It?s just frustrating to me Leica comes with a paradigm shifting, time
> warping, M system crunching SL system which reinvents everything and gets
> us all excited.
> They promise forthcoming a trio of prime glass long time Leica users love
> and are used to a 35mm, 50mm and 75mm and then don?t come through with
> them. Oops sorry maybe next year!
> They do somehow get around to having the time to come through with three
> zoom monsters, a 16-35mm, 24-90mm, and now 90-280mm.
> The SL is about the same size and weight as an M and will take M glass so
> we make the mistake of thinking this will revolutionize our M style
> shooting. But all those years of having to make compact glass which stays
> out of the line of sight of the viewfinder has gotten them thinking and
> doing other things.
> Leica seems to have R shooting in mind here not M shooting or M shooters.
> They want big glass, zoom glass, long glass, hyper expensive glass, heavy
> glass with a million floating elements in them.
> Barnak needs to come back from the grave and kick some serious ass.
> I just think it should have been handled differently. As in come out with
> the glass they say they are coming out with.
>
> I think SL prospective buyers and shooters should go on SL lens buying
> strike and not buy those metal munching monsters but force Leica to come
> out with those juicy primes!
> We get to see how good Leica can make an AF 35mm, 50mm, 75mm lens when
> they don?t have to keep keeping the size super small.
> With a tro of sharper than M glass they M system itself will need to
> scramble.
>
>
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> Photographer
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