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

[Tina Manley]

Thanks, Philippe. The WB is my fault.  I took it in Tungsten light but when
I used that as the default, it was way too yellow so I just guessed at what
it should be.

Yes, it's an early Christmas and birthday and anniversary present for me
(all coming up in the next couple of months!)

Tina

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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