[Leica] SL Lens Choices

Jim Nichols jhnichols at lighttube.net
Tue Sep 13 12:34:32 PDT 2016


Congratulations to both you and your audience.  I'm glad they are 
interested in something besides a smartphone.

Are you still using the "wiggle fix" when the 24-90 hangs up, or has 
that gone away, or been corrected?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/13/2016 2:27 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> I agree and will save my SL for Leica lenses only!  I can use all of my M
> and R lenses on it, I have the 24-90 and hope to get the fast 50 made for
> the SL.
> At my lecture this morning (which was standing room only), the students had
> lots of questions about Leica, which they had never heard of before!  They
> also had lots of intelligent questions about Syrian refugees and
> documentary photography - I was impressed.  There were well over 100 people
> in a room that seats 82.  I'm just glad it's over ;-)
>
> Tina
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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>> Which, given that lenses are Leica’s greatest strength, seems absurd.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
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>>> On 13 Sep 2016, at 20:43, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> curious isn't it. We have always talked about using Leica lenses on other
>>> bodies, we now can use other lenses on a Leica body.
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>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Frank Verizon 2 2016 <
>> red735i at verizon.net>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Novoflex has announced full automation adapters (AF and aperture
>> control)
>>>> for use on the SL body. Adapter for Canon EF lenses and the Nikon G (
>> the
>>>> ones without aperture rings) lenses. The Canon adapter was announced
>>>> several months ago. The Nikon adapter will be announced at Photokina
>> next
>>>> week. That will dramatically enlarge the number of lenses that you could
>>>> use on the SL. (Until Leica can broaden their offerings).
>>>>
>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>> Red735i at verizon.net
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