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

Mon Nov 30 14:07:29 PST 2015

I would love to, Ted, if I could just find one of those "well paying
clients"!!  There don't seem to be any around anymore.  I am going to quit
testing, though, and go out and take photos of my chickens and geese and
guineas and ducks and cats and dog.  We do have a shortage of people around
the farm but Tom is painting the front bedroom.  Maybe somebody will pay me
another $1.74 for 5 years use of a photo of Tom painting!

Hope you are well!

Tina

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Crew, :-)
> I've got an even better idea???????? :-)
> Just go out and take nice content winning photographs the content blows
> people away! And save a lot of wasted time fiddling!
>
> Yeah yeah OK I'll go away as I don't read! I just take photos and have
> fun... KISS! Folks as that beats the heck out of all this testing you'll
> probably forget in the "HEAT OF AN ASSGNMENT" for a well paying client!
> :-)
> :-) Aw, that feels better!:-)Have a nice day!
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Jim Nichols
> Sent: November-30-15 12:56 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGS: Comparing SL and M240 and 19R and Noctilux
>
> Tina,
>
> It is difficult for me to make comparisons of images from two cameras
> when one is shot at f/6.8 and the other at f/2.  I think you need to
> select common settings for such comparisons to have any real meaning.
> DoF  makes a big difference.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 11/30/2015 2:34 PM, Tina Manley 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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