[Leica] SL system forthcoming glass

[Mark Rabiner]

Leica has used these very high apatures as an excuse to jack up their price point and be a super-premium company not just a premium one of centuries gone by.
I agree Luis we are in an f iso 1,000,000 and be there era; why monster outer elements and the weight and cost which comes with it?
People on the internet when it comes to glass seem to know about one issue about glass and one issue only and that’s bokeh.
They are buying and selling and using glass based in its booked. Nothing else matters.
That’s how fast glass is sold “great bokeh”.
They say “its super-fast so you’ll get great bokeh” but that they mean “MORE bokeh.”
No mention of resolution or contrast or the way it renders off axis such and such or distortion.
I think we know there is more to glass than the way it renders out of focus areas and you could do worse stuff then to stop down a bit and get more in focus and while at it make sure what you are aiming at is in focus.

But I do shoot at this point with one super-fast lens. And that’s the AF Nikkor 28mm f/1.4D Aspherical.  And I will say I’m glad I have it and that option.
My high end iso I end up shooting a lot this year at night with is 128,000 and be there and at f 1.4 I can get a black cat in a coal mine at midnight as it leaps in the air to the next trash can and capture the action in the air. So that’s nice. Could never really get that before. 
Most my glass now are f1.8’s  so that’s 2/3’s and close to ¾’s of an f stop.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 1/13/18, 1:49 PM, "LUG on behalf of Lluis Ripoll" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:

    In addition I have read on Leica Rumors they are preparing the announcement M lenses 90mm f1.5 and  35mm Noctilux f 0,95
    
    With the actual cameras going to very high ISO values I ask me who need such apertures
    Lluis
    
    
    
    > El 13 gen 2018, a les 19:43, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> va escriure:
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    > It’s just frustrating to me Leica comes with a paradigm shifting, time warping, M system crunching SL system which reinvents everything and gets us all excited.
    > They promise forthcoming a trio of prime glass long time Leica users love and are used to a 35mm, 50mm and 75mm and then don’t come through with them. Oops sorry maybe next year!
    > They do somehow get around to having the time to come through with three zoom monsters, a 16-35mm, 24-90mm, and now 90-280mm.
    > The SL is about the same size and weight as an M and will take M glass so we make the mistake of thinking this will revolutionize our M style shooting. But all those years of having to make compact glass which stays out of the line of sight of the viewfinder has gotten them thinking and doing other things.
    > Leica seems to have R shooting in mind here not M shooting or M shooters.
    > They want big glass, zoom glass, long glass, hyper expensive glass, heavy glass with a million floating elements in them. 
    > Barnak needs to come back from the grave and kick some serious ass.
    > I just think it should have been handled differently. As in come out with the glass they say they are coming out with.
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    > I think SL prospective buyers and shooters should go on SL lens buying strike and not buy those metal munching monsters but force Leica to come out with those juicy primes!
    > We get to see how good Leica can make an AF 35mm, 50mm, 75mm lens when they don’t have to keep keeping the size super small.
    > With a tro of sharper than M glass they M system itself will need to scramble. 
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    > Mark William Rabiner
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