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M240 with SEM 21, Loch Ness in late November.

Great travel companion, Super Elmar 21 with SL601. Tomb of Rabiadurani (Bibi Kamaqbara) in Aurangabad, India.

Summilux R 80mm at max aperture, mounted to Z7. Lovely old school lens, deliberately uncorrected in post, purple and green fringing visible in Nikon letters.

Bold post, not a glamour shot but celebration of living.

After recent experience fully agree. I feel "Sharpie" is used liberally as generic marker pen without concern for the suitability for job in hand.

Many years ago I had M9 and Chinese 6-bit flange painted with Humbrol Matt paint worked. This is my first experiment with coder on M240 camera and Sharpie, I guess it is question of try and error, will carry on. Thank you all on suggestions, Amazon will make fortune selling all variety of Matt permanent markers. Edit, if anyone is wandering, it is easy to check coder against already coded kens, pits coincide . I also filled gaps between adjacent “1” or pits, lens is modern Voigtlander M so flange is perfect for aftermarket coding. Perhaps good Matt paint should work.

I have same coder and used Sharpie, sadly it doesn’t work. What is your camera, mine M240P, no cigar.

L. Lenses come engraved with recycling symbol which imply once electronic die and no longer supported they are kind of expensive bookshop. Conversely M lens can last for ever providing there is person, still to be born, who can provide CLA.

Yes, that 100-400 is Sigma lens under the skin. Leica version cost more. It should work on all SL models. It is not only Sony, other big two known jointly as CaNikon have high pixel fast tracking cameras also.

Pay peanuts get monkeys.

Even Leica apologists stopped defending Leica. Lens should never passed QC, it is not a scratch card for owner to rub off excess paint it see if it is winner or lemon. If I was owner I would request clean copy, after all it is supposed to be premium product. Why is this happening so often, my guess there seems to be anarchist cell embedded in the work force and now and again showing two fingers to the clientele.

As post 6 above, protective filter and hood do different things. As a minimum either protector or UV filter is a must but than I have to be careful to avoid stray light entering the lens. Best policy for piece of mind and maximising image quality is to use both.

it is to be expected that SL3 would have improved AF and subject tracking performance, for one as I understand it it employees phase detect rather than slow (but accurate) contrast method. Providing you are satisfied with longest almost Leica L lenses being 280mm (90-280mm zoom allegedly Panasonic design), longer lenses are either repackaged Sigma or third party, which is, surprise surprise, Sigma. It may sound picky or snobbish but the idea of buying into Leica is about optics, works same for other vendors. No matter how hard Leica is trying they seem to lag half decade behind mainstream rivals, 5frames at 12bit, common, even Sony doesn’t do that anymore. There is a chance to improve in future FW updates but bottleneck would remain the image processor. edit, minor spelling.

What type of filter?

Maybe repeat, M246 with Wate at 21mm.