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

[Philippe]

It all looks like an early but well deserved Xmas, Tina :-)
Have fun!

The WB in Tom's shot is probably a bit off I guess (skin tones)

Amities
Philippe

Le 30 nov. 2015 à 21:34, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> a écrit :

> 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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