Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/09

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Subject: [Leica] the SL: duck, duck, goose
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:05:11 -0600
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> On Feb 9, 2016, at 10:30 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

You have done absolutely NOTHING
to dissuade my lust
and all its associated dangers

;~(

George Lottermoser
george.imagist at icloud.com





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