LocalHero1953

You mean amateurs are not seduced by high pixel specs???

I'm another one who does not see the need for the shutter to close for lens changing. I would rather see the sensor each time so I can eyeball any gross dust contamination and blow it off. I always found the 'clean lens' routine on the ?M9 ?M240 tedious. If Leica chooses to implement it, then I hope it can be disabled. I am careless with changing lenses (I put lenses on the bed, and lay the camera (SL2-S) face down on the duvet while swapping lenses at home. While shooting and swapping lenses frequently, I will lay them down in my open backpack without rear end caps. I don't seem to have a big problem with dust. Each time I go out for a session with the camera, a quick blow job (did I really write that?) deals with anything I can see. If I have more time, I will use a loupe, but I can't remember the last time I needed the arctic butterfly or wet cleaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network For those like me that hadn't heard of a CDN.

On my SL2-S there is no automatic focus enlargement with M lenses, and you don't have to press a button to get enlargement - I just turn the rear wheel. M lenses cannot trigger automatic enlargement on any camera except the M: there is no electronic communication between the lens and body - just a mechanical one on the M body. L-mount lenses can trigger automatic enlargement. If you don't like focus peaking, turn it off. It will be just like the R5. You may want to read the manual - I don't see why the SL2 would be different from the SL2-S in this respect.

If I were to reply "I have no idea" to every question in the forum where I don't actually have an idea, I would have no time for photography.😏

I had the Apo-Summicron-M 90, and I carelessly caused a chip by putting it face down on an irregular rock surface. I lived with it for a number of years, then had it repaired (new front element) and sold it. I never noticed any effect on my images. I guess if the light catches it at just the wrong angle you may get some anomalous flare, but most of the time it would not be a problem. It may be slightly more at risk of causing a problem because it is further back. How does such damage happen to a surface that is neither the front nor rear? I would worry that someone carelessly damaged it while dismantling to clean it, and that the same carelessness caused other, hidden, damage. You say you cleaned 'each lens surface'; did you dismantle the lens entirely😮?

The problems I have had with EVF switching (CL, SL, Q2) have been related to the eye proximity sensor - cleaning the area around it has solved the problem. This shouldn't happen with a new Q3 though, nor does your description match what I'd expect. But perhaps worth a try.

The corollary of the explanation for the 'more blur with more pixels' issue is that increasing the number of pixels leads to diminishing returns. If the point of more pixels is to see more detail in the image (smaller crops? larger enlargements? sharper images?) then why bother if that detail is masked by blur? Why not keep to a lower resolution sensor? On a camera that appears intended for handholding, like the M, more pixels seems a waste. Unless one introduces IBIS - which runs counter to the traditionalist attitude to the M.

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I've been seeing the same for the last few hours, though otherwise problem free. I've seen it before and wouldn't think more about it if there wasn't for the other reported problems. No adverts, MacOS, Safari, no VPN, wifi to fibre broadband. I've just checked my iPhone 13: Brave browser, same result whether 4G or home wifi. And my PC: Windows 11, Brave browser, ethernet to fibre broadband.

There are always exceptions!🙂 But a 12mp sensor weights the FX3 on the video side of the video-stills hybrid spectrum; I guess the SL3 is on the stills side.

IDK - just the question of how date and time are managed in f/w. The introduction of a timecode function must have some interface with the internal clock. It may be a red herring.

Random speculation: a time stamp bug introduced to the SL3 along with the hardware and firmware for video timecode syncing?

My amateur performance photos are taken for other amateurs (see my website), and are used for publicity for productions, individuals and the theatre venue (the local ADC Theatre), so are used online, printed programmes and brochures, occasional media reviews and, to a lesser extent these days, in printed posters. The photos I take for myself I may post on social media (FB & instagram) or here. We have a fair amount of space on our house walls, and my premises manager quite likes my photos, so our walls are covered with a mixture of family, travel and theatre photography, mainly printed by myself at A3, but some landscapes at A2. I use gallery hanging rails and hang groups of photos as close-spaced blocks. In covid lockdown, I made a number of photobooks, and learned bookbinding. That's a slow process (both choosing/sequencing/laying out and printing/binding) so I haven't done many. But it is wonderful not being constrained by the standard layouts and printing formats of Blurb etc. I have made concertina books, stitched, perfect and coptic bound books, and books printed on Washi papers that still give me great pleasure. I can't imagine making images that are designed only for me to see - it is important that others see them as well. I am always interested in their reactions and may take on board their comments - if I agree with them. Edit: Seeing @M11 for me's note about Smugmug below: my website is hosted by Format, and I use a Lightroom plugin for Format that creates a link from a LR collection to a set of images on my website. Such plugins make internet publication simple.

My Sigma 85/1.4 DG DN arrived yesterday............ (No opportunities for use till next week though).