[Leica] NEW CAMERA??? LEICA SL.

[Jeff Moore]

Oh, thanks, guys, for the kind words!  *This* time I wasn't actually
posting to pimp the photos - I did that last March when they were taken - I
just thought they did a good job of illustrating how well the rented SL
worked for me.  I'm a fan.

And even...  for a long time I've considered myself a guy who just doesn't
like zoom lenses much.  I've always liked a particular look a good prime
seems to have, and also found that essentially every zoom is too slow to be
a practical available-light lens in dim situations.  But that new Leica
24-90mm for the SL, damned if it didn't keep making pictures I liked, in
circumstances where I'd usually have been really frustrated by a zoom
lens.  And technologies we haven't traditionally associated with Leica -
autofocus and optical image stabilization - they worked a treat.

I mean, I know Leica developed autofocus 30-40 years ago, before letting
Minolta bring it to market - but I wasn't sure they'd ever come back to it
and execute it so well.  Yes, I'm choosing to ignore the S, because it was
never a camera for me.

The vast majority of the pictures in that gallery were taken with the SL AF
zoom.  I did bolt on some M and R glass as well, because I really wanted to
see how well that worked;  here's one of the rare examples (taken with the
80mm Summilux-R):


https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/25778017651/in/album-72157665752167155/

You can do manual focus nicely;  but it is definitely slower than using the
SL-system lens.

I'm drooling over the promised but AFAIK as yet unavailable 50mm Summilux
designed and built for the SL system.  It'll be remarkably huge compared to
the M and even R equivalents, but I expect it'll be really damned good.


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:26 PM, George Lottermoser <
george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

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> > On Aug 19, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> 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.
>
> gorgeous, spontaneous captures
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
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