Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was checking Reid out because if I'm going to spend money on something I like to have a clue what it is ahead of time not after I spent the money. And he's still writing for Luminous Landscape and here's a thing on the LS and a greet shot of the camera with a lens full on. And back. >https://luminous-landscape.com/some-thoughts-on-the-leica-sl/< I'd also like to write right now that its in the archives somewhere (hold the anchovies) that I've thought a flat compact non pricey mirrorless camera could be a great M and R lens solution. Which means that the lenses would work well on those kind of cameras not that you'd want to drop them in water like an Alka-Seltzer. I'm not against mirrorless I think it can be an elegant camera basic design concept. The Leica M system is in the "mirrorless" camera category in the B&H website on the internet. Not sure if I like that all that much. I can think of lots of things with no mirrors. That doesn't define them. The tea-cup I'm drinking out of right now is mirrorless. And thank god no one expects it to be. I think the best solution for Leica M lenses is a near current Leica M digital camera or just just about any Leica M film camera ever made. And I also think about the screw mount system glass and cameras. I hope this SL camera does not mean Leica is not having second thoughts about its venerable rangefinder viewfinder which goes back through at least half of the last century and to a lot of people is the core of what Leica has long been about, not venerable like electronics. But this camera should please people who feel there is no reason for living without auto focus. Or feel their eyes have given up and them and for some reason cant get better glasses. On this review I don't think an overly long range bulky pricey normal zoom is going to get serious shooters attention. I think an 18-35 will and an 80 to 200 would. A wide and tele zoom kit. Well there seems to be a The Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280/f2.8-4 in the wings that's the tele zoom I wanted close enough. And a Leica Summilux-SL 50/f1.4 ASPH a lens I can also sink my teeth into. Normal zooms are eschewed by the bulk of serous shooters who spit them out. They just seem to use the wide and the tele and maybe for the middle use a fast 50 or macro. I hope that people don't find a whizz bang EVF or whatever the acronym is viewfinder front curtain what have you is what gets their credit cards out and the M system flounders. I hear the M framelines light up now. That's good enough for me. Show them an LED and they'd follow it anywhere. Don't need no stinking auto focus on my Leica M glass. I'll zone focus at iso 64,000. F 11 and be there. On 10/28/15 10:15 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge683 at fastmail.com> wrote: > I?ll just observe here what I have said to him directly: his Flash-based > site > is damn near unusable on my Mac. He wants his pay-wall which is okay but > there > are better ways to get there. It?s an ugly, awful site to navigate. Adam > > On Oct 28, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote: > > On his > main review site, Sean Reid has: > > - an extensive review of the SL > > - > an introductory piece on M and R lenses on the SL and M > > - an even more > in-depth piece on 35mm RF lenses on the SL and M (typ 240) > > As usual, the > content on Reid Reviews is well worth the annual fee. > > > http://www.reidreviews.com > > [cue Mr. Rabiner reflexively opining that > because there are reviews > you can look at for free on the web, it could > never under any > circumstance be worth paying to support Sean Reid's site in > 10... 9... > ] > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Tina Manley > <images at comporium.net> wrote: >> I have not been able to log in to my Reid > Review for some reason, but he >> has posted a mini-review on Luminous > Landscape that is very interesting. >> It may tempt some: >> >> > https://luminous-landscape.com/some-thoughts-on-the-leica-sl/ >> >> Tina >> > >> -- >> Tina Manley >> http:// >> > <http://t.sidekickopen23.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJN7t5XYgfmK > YPW4WzBHl3Mx_9dW3LqWkM56dQ1Jf7P8b5b02?t=http%3A%2F%2Ftina-manley.artistwebsite > s.com%2F&si=6038418186567680&pi=4205025f-95b4-4e3c-e6ec-362345971492> >> > www.tinamanley.com >> http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information _______________________________________________ Leica Users > Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/