[Leica] the SL: duck, duck, goose

[Tina Manley]

Impressive!!  You are certainly making good use of the SL!

Tina

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Yesterday, as part of my continuing evaluation of the Leica SL for my use,
> I visited Colusa National Wildlife Refuge north of Sacramento, what I
> consider a target-rich environment.  I didn't expect great art from this
> day's photography so I was not disappointed ;).  I wanted to see how the
> SL's raw files looked in a context I was familiar with when using the DMR
> and a7II.
>
> In a nutshell, I'm delighted with the raw files.  Aside from conversion to
> jpg all I did was use a Photoshop curves layer to adjust black point and
> (infrequently) white point.  That's all.  The colors are rich and full with
> excellent gradation.
>
> Details: I used the Canon FD 500mm L at f/5.6, ISO 400.  Manual focus
> without magnification is not difficult, and in challenging cases
> magnification is available at the touch of a button.  I'd like to see a
> firmware update to enable two-step magnification on the joystick like the
> bottom left button has.  The first magnification step is usually more than
> sufficient for critical manual focus and is easier to track a moving
> target.  The other firmware update that would make this camera much more
> useful to me is being able to make the 'exposure preview' mode sticky.
>
> the pix:
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/SL/L1060187.jpg
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/SL/L1060234.jpg
> (full detail in blacks, no highlight clipping, a first for this bird!)
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/SL/L1060317.jpg
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/SL/L1060328.jpg
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/SL/L1060337.jpg
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/SL/L1060346.jpg
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/SL/L1060350.jpg
>
> All comments are welcome.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com
>
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