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

[Frank Verizon]

Saying the obvious..... You were younger then....

Frank Filippone, ducking quickly......
Red735i at verizon.net

On Nov 30, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

I hate tripods.  I did put the camera on the rail of the porch. I'd be glad
to send anybody a full DNG or blow up any section to 100% and post it.
You are probably right about the lens weight; however, I did carry around a
Canon 1DMII with an 85/1.2 lens for over a year before Leica finally came
out with a digital camera.  That combination weighs 2623 grams and is not
nearly as easy to handle as the SL and 24-90 at 2095 grams.

Tina

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:24 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
> 
> That you could/should have used a tripod to get similar framing ;-) You,
> looking at the DNGs, are the only one who is likely to see a real
> difference..... There will be no native SL lens weighing less than twice
> (more likely 3x) the weight of a 35/2.0....
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 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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