[Leica] NEW CAMERA??? LEICA SL.

Fri Aug 19 10:29:35 PDT 2016

The SL is an excellent camera.  It's biggish, and heavy, and its first
available system lens (the 24-90) is huge...   but the camera and lens
are both truly top-notch.  The SL is the only electronic-viewfinder
camera I've used in which I notice no lag between what's happening in
the world and the picture I see in the viewfinder.  It's like a bionic
SLR - you see what the lens and sensor are seeing, but it brightens up
your view in dim light, and can magnify to help with manual focus
(say, of your existing M lenses).  The autofocus lens made for the SL,
though, nails focus quickly and with shocking reliability.

I rented an SL (because it is quite expensive) to take these pictures:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157665752167155/

Aside from the size and weight issues, there are very few downsides to
the SL, and it's actually a superb camera for a photographer whose
eyes are no longer as good as they used to be at nailing focus.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Leica SL is the one I've been using lately. Almost all of the Iran photos were made with the SL. High ISOs are wonderful with a film-like grain instead of noise.  It's the best digital camera Leica has made. I only have one SL lens - the 24 to 90, but it does take all Leica M and R lenses with adapters.  I don't regret buying it!!
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> Tina
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> A friend sent me a sort of flyer on a new SLR LEICA  "LEICA SL" model.
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>> ISO RATE?  50 to 50,000
>> Like with that kind of sensitivity???? "WHO NEEDS LIGHT?"  A quick look through advertisment  and it truly appears as a "magical machine? It's also?  Mirrorless?
>> Seems like lots of other cool bits, buttons & thing-mee-bobs!
>> Maybe some of you have heard of it or quite possibly played with one?
>> Another interesting bit? With an adapter you can use "M-lenses"??????? Oh and there were all kinds of new stuff?
>> HOWEVER I DID NOT SEE A PRICE???????? :-( Oh well can't afford one anyway!  :-(
>> cheers,
>> Dr. Ted
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>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
>> Sent: August-15-16 9:32 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Louisiana
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>>> On 16 Aug 2016, at 04:05, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
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>>> Good to hear you and yours are still fine.
>>> Thank you for sharing that powerful, first hand narrative.
>>>
>>> a note off the iPad, George
>>>
>>> On Aug 15, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> We're fine, so far, no flooding in our area.  Some in Adam's neck of the
>>>> swamp, Iowa, La. near Lake Charles, but his subdivision is built on an old
>>>> rice field, and though the soil holds water, it also drains well.
>>>>
>>>> Eric is fine in New Orleans, he's had to work from home some as the streets
>>>> have some flooding, but his house is pretty high, and his apt. is on the
>>>> second floor.
>>>>
>>>> Kathy works for Public Health, and she's likely to go staff shelters soon.
>>>>
>>>> I won't mince words, this is a serious disaster.
>>>>
>>>> So far more than 20,000 people are evacuated from their homes.  The worst
>>>> is around Baton Rouge, and in the Lafayette area.
>>>>
>>>> More rain today.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your concern.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *The following is not my writing!*
>>>>
>>>> *from Louisiana Voice, a blog I follow:*
>>>>
>>>> Following a leisurely breakfast Saturday morning, we looked out the front
>>>> door to see water from the Amite River (a mile from my house) coming across
>>>> the street.
>>>>
>>>> That was all the warning we got after feeling confident the night before
>>>> that we were in no peril. We scrambled to throw some clothing into garbage
>>>> bags, gathered our medications and put our dogs on leashes as the water
>>>> poured into the home where we had been living the past 22 years.
>>>>
>>>> Shortly after, a flotilla from the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department
>>>> (that’s West Baton Rouge, as in across two rivers—the Amite and the
>>>> Mississippi—and two parishes to the west of us) arrived as we struggled to
>>>> raise heavy furniture. The deputy who came to our door told us it was
>>>> useless because the water was going to go much higher than where we were
>>>> trying to raise it. He helped be complete the task anyway—something he
>>>> didn’t have to do, but did anyway out of compassion for our plight which
>>>> was growing more desperate by the minute.
>>>>
>>>> He helped carry our bags of clothing and our small dog and I bodily carried
>>>> our Chow-Golden Retriever mix through the filthy, swirling water that was
>>>> by now deeper than the tops of my white shrimp boots (a required part of
>>>> the uniform if you live in South Louisiana). Needless to say the weight of
>>>> two boots filled with brown river water made jumping onto tho flotilla
>>>> impossible so a pair of deputies bodily lifted me aboard even as an
>>>> untimely cramp in my right calf prohibited me from being of much help to my
>>>> own rescue.
>>>>
>>>> Once aboard, another smaller boat pulled alongside carrying a family with a
>>>> special needs teenage boy. His wheelchair was lifted onto the flotilla and
>>>> his father, who lived behind our home on an adjacent street, lifted his
>>>> helpless, diapered atrophied son and placed him gingerly onto his
>>>> wheelchair. It was as I watched that boy, unable to even raise his head
>>>> that I came to the realization that even though I was losing my home, both
>>>> vehicles, my record collection, my books and my computer, our losses were
>>>> insignificant.
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>>>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone heard from Sonny Carter?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is he on high ground down there in Louisiana/
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
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>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Sonny
>>>> http://sonc.com/look/
>>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>>> 1714
>>>> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
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>>>> USA
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