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I bought this lens quite a few years ago to use on my R9 with color slide film on an African safari and was happy with it at the time. Then I got the APO-Telyt 280mm f4.0. The difference in quality is quite obvious when one looks at photos side by side, but the results of the 350 are not bad by itself and it was quite usable. If you don't need the utmost quality in a long lens for occasional use, or if you want to see if you will enjoy using such long lenses, the 350 is not a bad choice and it is quite cheap. The APO-Telyt 280/4.0, on the other hand, is optically unsurpassed. Puts describes it as "diffraction-limited" and the MTF curves confirm that. Combined with the 1.4X and/or 2.0X APO-Extender(s), (and a good beanbag), it provides the ultimate safari tele solution. Guy

No answer, so I did a quick and rough test: Leica CL, 18-56 zoom, fresh battery. Manual mode, 1/50th, f3.5, Manual focus, DNG+JPG. Continuous High Speed drive mode. UHS-1: Lexar Professional SDHC, Class 10, 133X Speed, 8 GB: 31 photos, 62 files. UHS-2 Lexar Professional SDHC. Class 10, 1000X Speed 150MB/s, 16 GB: 49 photos, 98 files. So, UHS-2 rated cards do make a difference. Whether it is worth the more expensive cards is up to you. Guy

Hello everyone, I have just now added a Leica CL to my Leica SL kit, using R, M and L lenses. I used the "Search" function of the forum, but came up empty. The CL manual states that the camera accepts UHS-2 SD cards (as it must!) but does it actually use the increased throughput of the UHS-2 cards? Thanks in advance. Guy

Umut, In rereading your initial post, it would seem that you confuse "spherical aberration" with the deeply curved spherical design of the inner individual elements of the Summicron 50mm lens. Spherical aberrations are indeed due to the spherical surfaces of the lens elements, but you cannot infer that deeply curved surfaces necessarily lead to more spherical aberrations. Your phrase: "But when you look to its elements , there are many aberrations" suggests that you are implying one from the other. Guy

Odd beast indeed. It has terrible barrel distortion at the wide end. One might argue that it matters little in a digital age, but it matters a lot on color reversal slides. Guy

Actually, the last version is 1.9 http://us.leica-camera.com/Service-Support/Support/Downloads?category=112770&subcategory=&type=&language=all Guy

In July 2005, we were traveling in Namibia and Botswana. We went into Zimbabwe to have a look at Victoria Falls and had lunch at the Victoria Falls Hotel. Very good lunch, fine settings, all in all, a very positive experience that we thoroughly enjoyed. Then came the bill: Z$ 1,000,000! It was a very good lunch, and ... everything is relative. BTW, we have not had another million-dollar lunch since. Guy

Indeed, these are good "problems" to have. 😉

No problem, but I hope all is well in the end. Is this one of the varieties that die after flowering? Which would be unfortunate for your garden! Guy

Agave? Guy

No, the Perar is NOT collapsible. It's only TINY. And, yes, I DO have one. Barelly thicker than a body cap. BUT, it does vignette. Guy

I have had my M9 since 2010 and I never used the "snapshot" profile; I doubt I ever knew about it's existence! Do you know why it is there and what/who it was intended for? Guy

AZN, could you explain better exactly what the bug is before I install 3.4? I use a lot of my R lenses with the SL and the Leica R-Adapter L. Thanks. Guy

Hi Brian, My Leica R-Adapter L reads my ROM R lenses ID, which lens is mounted, and records that info in the EXIT.. It does NOT record the aperture, although this information was available on my R9/DMR nor, for zoom lenses, the focal length selected, which was also recorded by the R9/DMR, IIRC.Why Leica decided not to record/report all the information available is beyond me. Guy

I have. A few times. It is really simple and very straightforward. But, to strictly answer the question in your title, I did not do it during a shoot. Guy