[Leica] SL system forthcoming glass

[Mark Rabiner]

I also love auto focus on my latest camera its faster and quieter and focuses in the dark not just near dark and I’m happy as a clam about it.
Interesting having just finished my first “project” in years I had to turn manual about a third of the time. Shooting with a D750 with two tele zooms.
I had to get the thing in focus and have it be left there. Holding down a lock button doesn’t really work for me. At least shooting Audrey Munson Statues it didn’t.
Why does shooting projects change everything? Somebody must know. I’d go for months AF only.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 1/13/18, 2:58 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

    I have the SL 50/1.4 which is a fantastic prime lens.  I've never been
    interested in zooms but the 24-90 really exceeded my expectations so I took
    a chance on the 90-280.
    I still love my M's, especially the M240 and MM, but I really like the
    auto-focus on the SL.  I have adapters and can use all of my R and all of
    my M lenses on the SL.  That's one great thing about Leica - nothing is
    obsolete.  I'm still using all of my lenses made many years ago with my
    most modern digital cameras.
    
    Tina
    
    On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
    
    > 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.
    >
    > 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
    > Photographer
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