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

[Frank Verizon]

I am delighted you like the magnified focus feature.  It is my preferred method. (a7 and XE-1)

An interesting comparison would be the weight of the new SL to the R you might own. 

How did the camera perform exposure?  You did nothing, the camera handled everything?  You set the lens f-stop, the camera set the shutter? You did everything manually, setting shutter speed and aperture?

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net

On Nov 30, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 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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