Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh, thanks, guys, for the kind words! *This* time I wasn't actually posting to pimp the photos - I did that last March when they were taken - I just thought they did a good job of illustrating how well the rented SL worked for me. I'm a fan. And even... for a long time I've considered myself a guy who just doesn't like zoom lenses much. I've always liked a particular look a good prime seems to have, and also found that essentially every zoom is too slow to be a practical available-light lens in dim situations. But that new Leica 24-90mm for the SL, damned if it didn't keep making pictures I liked, in circumstances where I'd usually have been really frustrated by a zoom lens. And technologies we haven't traditionally associated with Leica - autofocus and optical image stabilization - they worked a treat. I mean, I know Leica developed autofocus 30-40 years ago, before letting Minolta bring it to market - but I wasn't sure they'd ever come back to it and execute it so well. Yes, I'm choosing to ignore the S, because it was never a camera for me. The vast majority of the pictures in that gallery were taken with the SL AF zoom. I did bolt on some M and R glass as well, because I really wanted to see how well that worked; here's one of the rare examples (taken with the 80mm Summilux-R): https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/25778017651/in/album-72157665752167155/ You can do manual focus nicely; but it is definitely slower than using the SL-system lens. I'm drooling over the promised but AFAIK as yet unavailable 50mm Summilux designed and built for the SL system. It'll be remarkably huge compared to the M and even R equivalents, but I expect it'll be really damned good. On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:26 PM, George Lottermoser < george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 19, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote: > > > > The SL is an excellent camera. It's biggish, and heavy, and its first > > available system lens (the 24-90) is huge... but the camera and lens > > are both truly top-notch. The SL is the only electronic-viewfinder > > camera I've used in which I notice no lag between what's happening in > > the world and the picture I see in the viewfinder. It's like a bionic > > SLR - you see what the lens and sensor are seeing, but it brightens up > > your view in dim light, and can magnify to help with manual focus > > (say, of your existing M lenses). The autofocus lens made for the SL, > > though, nails focus quickly and with shocking reliability. > > > > I rented an SL (because it is quite expensive) to take these pictures: > > > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157665752167155/ > > > > Aside from the size and weight issues, there are very few downsides to > > the SL, and it's actually a superb camera for a photographer whose > > eyes are no longer as good as they used to be at nailing focus. > > gorgeous, spontaneous captures > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >