SL2 video troubles and rampant deficiencies

[hillavoider]

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13 hours ago, Photoworks said:

I am getting it too now, and the battery is full...

 

Leica answer : The Leica SL2 need a lot of energy for 4K video. Please use an external power supply via USB-C or attach the handgrip with a second d battery to the camera.

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i'm surprised more people are not complaining about this, hopefully its fixable 

Edited February 4, 2020 by hillavoider

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7 hours ago, digitalfx said:

small handheld camera.

Small ?😋

 

[digitalfx]

3 minutes ago, frame-it said:

Small ?😋

 

small for 5K Video

[Photoworks]

On 12/27/2019 at 12:37 AM, NRKstudio said:

Hate to say the SL2 video capabilities are seriously flawed at 4K recording and C4K.  See the picture below.  The main issues I ran into during a full day of video use (With the 50 APO SL and 35/1.2 Art):

1.  4K recording can only occur for 5 minutes or less on a full battery before error message “battery level too low for 4K recording”.  (Changed batteries and encountered same issue so it’s not the battery)
2.  C4K recording restricts AF usage, limited to only manual focus with the Sigma 35/1.2. 

3. All AF capabilities during recording are very slow to focus, unable to switch faces during face/body detection (in the rare case it captures a face), the AF box may at times capture 2-3 bodies and choose to “average” the focus distance.  
4.  No compressed 4K recording at 50mbps or less.  
5.  Video Focus peaking’s highlighted/colored areas do not match still focus peaking highlighted areas.  
6.  No way to magnify the video during capture to check focus.  
 

Unfortunately the error message for battery doesn’t show up until 30 seconds after you hit record video.  So it ruined a nice Xmas morning moment with the family, when I set up the tripod, hit record, then joined the wife/baby.  5 minutes later, I check the camera and only 30 seconds or less were recorded and the moment gone.  Last year my A7r3 recorded 4K full width of sensor till the battery went to 0%.  AF easily moved from eye to eye of subjects, focus peaking was accurate and easily seen, and it held tons of video in a UHS-1 SD Card.  
 

For a camera that touts it video recording, my iPhone did better (actually much better), and then I had to grab my xpro3 for the rest of the day.  
 

how did Leica release a camera with such terrible firmware?? ASIDE from video, just off the top of my head, I recall: terrible accuracy and reliability issues with AF-c tracking, complete lack of eye-AF all together, blurry EVF view in magnified mode for AF-s and manual focus, no AF-s abilities at all while in magnified live view,  terrible reliability with tethering (can’t tether to an iPad with two SD cards in the camera due to a firmware bug),  nonlinear focusing in manual focus on the Summicron SL lenses.  That’s all I encountered, im sure there’s more to report.  I haven’t encountered a small percentage of such obvious firmware issues with the xpro3, a7r3, A7r4, Nikon z7, or gfx50r.  

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It is probably the lens using to much power

[SamJames]

I'm a bit late to this thread but I have the SL2-S and can record around 1 hr 40 mins of 4K 25p on a full battery with the rear screen off. Pretty good!

[bpLeica]

I made a simple tweak and an observation that helped;

1- turn off bluetooth/wifi. when you are not using it, it sucks battery for no reason. (I rarely use it anyway)

2- Some lenses drain the battery more. for example: sigma 35/2.0 my battery lasts longer and even goes below the normal threshold before the error. Panasonic Pro S lenses are the worst for battery life. 

hope this helps