Seeking Experienced Advice on Using SL for Movement

[Luca]

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My Sherlock 🙂 , SL2 vario 24-90 @67 F5  ISO 1600 1/15.

 

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Edited January 11, 2020 by Luca

[dem331]

12 minutes ago, Luca said:

My Sherlock 🙂 , SL2 vario 24-90 @67 F5  ISO 1600 1/15.

 

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Magnificent!

Skilful use  of shutter speed to freeze movement 😊

[sillbeers15]

12 hours ago, Jeffry Abt said:

“What you're asking is to learn how to swim from reading a book”.  
No, I’m interested in hearing about SL2 users’ experiences with the camera. Ie. How they get the most out of it! 
 

I do not care if a Sony product is better! As far as I am concerned, Nikon makes the best fast action camera in the world. But this is a Leica forum. So, what settings are SL2 users using to get the best out of their cameras? 
 

After all, this is a forum. Isn’t one of its purposes to learn from each other’s experiences?

I'm trying to tell you that whatever you gain from other's experience belong to others. You'll get to expend your understanding by reading other's experience but still will not get to optimise your camera. Trust me, I've been through it. The required AF tracking settings changes as the condition of light, type of background, size and movement of subject determines. If your panning technique cannot even let you keep the subject winthin the frame consistently, setting does not matter. If you cannot understand me on this, it means you have not even started shooting moving subjects.

[sillbeers15]

18 hours ago, FlashGordonPhotography said:

As previously stated, with an original SL, there's not much you can do in camera to improve things. It's poor as a tracking camera. Always will be. Techniques like pre-focusing might help. Even manual focusing with R or M lenses can be useful. You're already using the most useful one DoF.  Personally for action I use single shot AF, a couple of stops down and mash the shutter, with the SL and SL2. But the AF isn't ever going to have a high success rate. Period.

For the SL2 Cassia provided a link to the most useful setup tips for the SL2 AF system and CAF on page one. However no matter what you do the hit rate will still be low. Higher than the SL (601) but no where near most other brands flagships. Maybe, maybe Panasonic/Leica will come up with a firmware update to improve things. But as of now it's mostly luck if it works.

And as much as you don't want to hear it you'll find that quite a few SL/SL2 owners solve the problem by having another brand camera they keep to fill the holes in the SL shooting envelope.

Gordon

How did I managed to get clearly focused 10 out of 11 frames after frame pictures using AF tracking of SL2 on my post in number76 post of  'Leica SL2 AF' tread by NRKstudio on 24th Nov 2019 just 3 days after I unboxed my SL2 if your comments on SL2 AF tracking capability were 'But the AF isn't ever going to have a high success rate. Period.'? You need to live outside your comfort zone mate!

Edited January 11, 2020 by sillbeers15

[helged]

41 minutes ago, sillbeers15 said:

How did I managed to get clearly focused 10 out of 11 frames after frame pictures using AF tracking of SL2 on my post in number76 post of  'Leica SL2 AF' tread by NRKstudio on 24th Nov 2019 just 3 days after I unboxed my SL2 if your comments on SL2 AF tracking capability were 'But the AF isn't ever going to have a high success rate. Period.'? You need to live outside your comfort zone mate!

Link 'service' (since I went for a check...): 

 

Edited January 11, 2020 by helged

[Daniel81]

Your points are excellent and well taken.  Fully understood.  Even from the beginning.  It nevertheless, in addition, is always great to hear of other's experience.  Both are valuable.  

[Chaemono]

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vor 13 Minuten schrieb Daniel81:

[...]

, is always great to hear of other's experience.

[...]

Great.  With the SL2 it's just so rewarding to shoot action.  Whenever I nail a shot, it reminds me of The Crisis by Thomas Paine.

“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot [read: the α9 user] will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."

This applies even more so to the M.