[Leica] NEW CAMERA??? LEICA SL.

Fri Aug 19 10:36:51 PDT 2016

A great collection!  You have some real diverse personalities there.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/19/2016 12:29 PM, Jeff Moore wrote:
> 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!!
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> A friend sent me a sort of flyer on a new SLR LEICA  "LEICA SL" model.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 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
>>>
>>> ++++1
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>>> Nathan Wajsman
>>> Alicante, Spain
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>>> YNWA
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>>>> On 16 Aug 2016, at 04:05, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> USA
>>>>>
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