[Leica] Big SL Lens ( DIameter) explanation

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I just checked into the LUG having just read some of the Red Dot forum to recommend to you to just put a Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 ASPH on it and hit the airport.
But seems you?ve figured that out long ago!
Leica lenses have never messed up for me but I?ve never had a zoom glad you are back in business shooting with the it. 
What you could not photograph with that would not seem worth mentioning!
And if you had a 24, 28, 35, 50, 75 and 90 in your bag instead it would require much more padding? and Tylenol. And wheels!
 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
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On 1/15/18, 6:20 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

    My SL 24-90 jammed when I was in Iran.  It would not zoom at all.  I sent a
    panicked e-mail to Leica and they responded immediately.  They had had two
    lens that had that problem.  The guy that worked on them talked me through
    how to tug on the lens hood to get the zoom to unstick.  It worked and I
    did that for the rest of the trip.  When I got back home, the lens went to
    Leica NJ where they fixed it permanently and shipped it back to me in less
    than a week.  It hasn't jammed since then.
    
    Tina
    
    On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
    
    > Frank all your camera issues seem to be with M?s a camera even though
    > digital is still very much a mechanical beast and the repair issues seem to
    > be more mechanical than electronic.
    > I think  the new systems now from Leica,  the SL we?ve been discussing as
    > well as the medium format S are working out.
    > I?m not hearing about repair problems on these newer system cameras which
    > are more firmly based on electronics less much less on mechanical systems.
    > I think they are working out.
    > I just can?t begin to almost afford them. They are the things dreams are
    > made of.
    >
    > If I had money rolling in I?d get set up with both S and SL systems.
    >
    > Ironic with Leica?s mechanical camera making history they?ve got the
    > electronics down just not the nuts and bolts.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    >
    > Mark William Rabiner
    > Photographer
    >
    > On 1/15/18, 5:56 PM, "LUG on behalf of Frank Filippone" <lug-bounces+mark=
    > rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
    >
    >     Who says?  Do you really trust Leica will properly repair your camera
    > in a timely fashion?
    >
    >     My M6 was repaired but then they shipped me a body casting that was so
    > dented the film cartridge would not fit.....
    >     My M8 had to go in twice because there was not a single pixel in
    > focus....  It appeared that the focal plane was twisted compared to the
    > image plane.
    >     My M9 was fine until the glass cover plate fell off....
    >     My Monochrom was fine, with a corroded glass cover plate....
    >
    >     These cameras have spent a total of over 18 months being repaired.
    >     You think pros can tolerate that kind of time without their working
    > tools?
    >     Excuse me, pros get treated special, it is the amateur's repairs get
    > treated like .... dirt.
    >
    >     To be fair, I have never had a problem with lens repair..... ( mainly
    > because I send them to DAG to be done)
    >
    >     Not again.  No more Leica bodies for me. Period.
    >
    >     But with the Techart Leica AF adapter for the Sony A7 family plus
    > Leica glass, why would I?  Best glass, IBIS, AF, bodies ( technology) that
    > I can afford to grow with.
    >
    >
    >     Frank Filippone
    >
    >     Red735i at verizon.net
    >
    >     I think the SL camera though costing many thousands but then not spend
    > all the time in the shop
    >
    >
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