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  1. I do slightly wonder. Some of the SL lens designs are attributed to Tampon, eg. But putting down a patent is not the same as producing a finished lens. There are trade-offs and production challenges. Competition is a good thing. If you look at Sony / Zeiss lenses from when the FE-mount was originally introduced (or even go back to the E-mount), the differences in performance are night and day. But so is the price. And the weight has also become a priority, after being sacrificed, for a while. Leica SL lenses have also been down a windy road: the initial zooms covered quite a lot of common uses for amateurs. Then the 50mm f1.4 produced magical rendering at the expense of bulk and (in the case of the Panasonic release at a similar time) the absolute performance. The Summicrons have been almost cinema lens quality, at reduced price, but the capacity to build them is almost exhausted, compared to the aspirations of the road map. In the meantime, Sigma and Panasonic have filled a range of size/weight / price / performance holes. And in the meantime, meantime, the software developers have discovered AI that will, ultimately denoise your pics and / or render them cleaner, whereupon the glass will become slightly less important.
  2. Hmmmm. A camera that has three different type faces on the front needs to make its mind up.
  3. Depends on what you shoot. Unless you need the $£... you will regret it, at your leisure. I love my APO lenses, but have just come back from a trip where I didn't want to carry the extra weight, so took the 24-90 (and 50mm SL Summilux + 135mm f3.4 APOish M) and they did the job on he SL3 as well as it used to on the SL. But this is where the Sony competition is fierce: their 24-70mm is light, as are the 50mm f1.4, 35mm f1.4 and 24mm f1.4. The longer options are more limited / heavier, however. But their 20mm f1.8, 14mm f1.8, and 16-35mm f2.8 are also light.
  4. The DXO reports are not consistent with ordinary experience. The APO 35mm is not on a par with the 35mm f2.8 Sony/Zeiss lens (I have both).
  5. https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/ is a good way of getting cards to a good initial state. (You then have to format them in camera, of course.)
  6. Yes. It works fine with other cables. It's just the plastic housing that is preventing the connection.
  7. The Leica cable doesn’t completely click into my iPhone with case, as other cables do …
  8. outside, with the phone in one hand and camera in the other...
  9. The look v style dichotomy is very confusing. When I go into the jpeg settings I can’t switch off the looks and select a standard style, eg. On the main back screen I can press the look and switch to standard / vivid / natural style as well as the various looks. Connection to my iPhone for gps is unreliable. Even connecting from the app can be flakey: both ends try to establish a WiFi connection and then can’t join. No idea why. AF remains unreliable for moving subjects. The boxes detect people ok, but sometimes every other pic at 4fps is blurry. (Similarly, beta animal mode detects dogs surprisingly well, with boxes, but doesn’t then focus on the right part of the animal.)
  10. Well I can confirm that the SL3 is not yet well tuned for black dogs. In Animal (Beta) focusing mode the boxes are drawn around them, but the camera focuses on the collar rather than the head. Admittedly the dogs I was testing on (giant schnauzer) have eyes fairly well hidden by fringes, most of the time, but I got a better hit rate with field or spot mode on the SL2 (daylight or indoors at night).
  11. Don’t know what’s going on but the APO wide open at the edge is probably sharper than most 50mm lenses in their centre.
  12. fewer clicks to switch bracketing on and off for individual shots. Focus stacking. Access to kore settings through the app
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