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Leica SL Survey - Your Opinion?

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What do you think about the new Leica SL?  

549 members have voted

  1. 1. Can you imagine to buy a Leica SL (Type 601)?

    • I want one!
      85
    • I'm interested but let's wait for detailed tests.
      61
    • I'm interested but will buy later when more lenses are available.
      40
    • No, the Leica SL is too expensive for me
      100
    • No, the Leica SL is too big and heavy for me
      126
    • Thanks no, not my camera at all
      137

  2. 2. Who will buy the Leica SL over the next years?

    • Professional photographers
      165
    • Video producers
      44
    • Leica R and M owners to adapt their lenses
      252
    • Leica fanatics who buy everything with a red dot
      253
    • Oligarchs looking for big and expensive gear
      96
    • No one - will become a flop
      57

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Peter Walker

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Now that Zeiss are making excellent lenses for the Sony A7Rii, with its 42 megapixel sensor and uncompressed raw images, it's difficult to justify spending triple the amount on the SL.  I'm waiting for more lenses and the next model.

 

As more information becomes available, with a little bit of trust that Leica will add more primes to the range over the next few months, this might be an excellent travel camera.  I am re-thinking my original assessment...

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IkarusJohn

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As more information becomes available, with a little bit of trust that Leica will add more primes to the range over the next few months, this might be an excellent travel camera.  I am re-thinking my original assessment...

 

I wouldn't do that. First, you need to explore the benefits of Sony A7 ownership. That way, if you decide the Leica is what you want after all, it will mean more to you. 

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ramarren

ramarren

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You bought it after July 2014 then i suspect. I was a beta tester for the firmware update 2.0.1.5, i can tell you ;)

 

 

 

For sure, but it's not relevant. I bought what was available at my time of purchase, and it worked/works as expected. 

 

I'd already been through a year and some of A7 experimentation, and I sold the A7 rather than the Leica M9. The M-P outperforms the M9, and by extension the A7. I have all the Leica R—and M—lenses I'm ever going to need. I have three film bodies for my R lenses so even if the SL were a dud, I don't lose anything. But I have to believe that Leica knows their lenses better than anyone else, and thus the SL will be the best performing digital capture platform for them. So I'll take the risk of early adopter on this one, and learn how to exploit its advantages and workaround its foibles as we always have, with every camera. 

 

That's simply what photographers do.  :)

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lct

lct

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I must not be enough of a photographer then but what was not relevant for you was a concern for me so unless curiosity is too strong i will follow the SL610 adventure on the sidelines pending a firmware update matching my expectations if any. Interesting discussion anyway :).

 

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pico

pico

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Again in English please. 

Ni vidis la filmon Steve Jobs kaj mi estas ankoraŭ en aura de perplekso , do nenio estas pli bona ankoraŭ . En la pluraj brainstorming renkontiĝoj mi havis kun Jobs ĝis 1983 mi ne vidis tian personon . Nomu ĝin jardekoj de esti en realeco distordo kampo . Mi estas bona kun tio sed ankoraŭ malfeliĉa en tiu momento .

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Jeff S

Jeff S

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The only advantage of mirrorless vs SLR is size and weight of body and lenses. But it seems that Leica has not yet understood this.

 

Well, with contrast detect AF, there should be no need to micro-adjust each lens to ensure ideal lens/camera alignment as with DSLRs.....and even then, the DSLR micro-adjustment cannot really deal with myriad focal length options on a zoom....typically only at shortest and longest FL.  Of course there are other potential advantages/disadvantages to the two focus systems.....or combination thereof.

 

Some suggest that the generalized size/weight distinction between mirrorless and DSLR systems isn't really that much, notably when considering big lenses (and not just the SL and native zoom); rather, the benefit is in the simplification of the build without mirror assembly, and the presumed increased reliability, speed of operation, etc.  Not just with cameras, but as this article suggests, technological advances often involve shifts from electro-mechanical operation to fully electronic.  Whether that's better or worse, I'll leave to others.... https://photographylife.com/the-mirrorless-hype   Size and weight often have more to do with sensor size than with DSLR vs mirrorless.

 

An EVF might also provide advantages for some with regard to night viewing.  But OVF vs EVF gets into personal preferences....and the implementation of these respective systems varies greatly by manufacturer and product.

 

Jeff

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LocalHero1953

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I do occasional octopus photography.

This is the last one: Sicily, 2004.

I never got to grips with P&S autofocus and film photography. By the time you found out it was wrong, it was too late.

The octopus was good.

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Herr Barnack

Herr Barnack

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Maybe it's just me, but I see no advantage that the SL has over the M-P other than the maximum ISO of 50,000 and the burst rate of 11 FPS up to 33 frames.   The burst rate will obviously be of interest for sports photographers and possibly street photographers.  ISO 50,000 is pretty hard to argue with but it is not enough of a motivator for me to cough up $7450 USD. 

 

JMHO/YMMV.

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Tina Manley

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Maybe it's just me, but I see no advantage that the SL has over the M-P other than the maximum ISO of 50,000 and the burst rate of 11 FPS up to 33 frames.   The burst rate will obviously be of interest for sports photographers and possibly street photographers.  ISO 50,000 is pretty hard to argue with but it is not enough of a motivator for me to cough up $7450 USD. 

 

JMHO/YMMV.

The obvious advantage to me is auto-focus??!!

 

Tina

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