SL2 How can this be considered professional?

[scott kirkpatrick]

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1 hour ago, Jim B said:

I thought the 6bit transferred all the data including f stop to the body? 

The 6 bits are just painted on, they don't change.  And that's only enough information to identify 64 different things -- Leica has made more lenses than that!

[Jim B]

Well I used the new battery and reset the camera and used an m 75Noctilux. Worked fine high speed burst, and video. The battery was down to 1/2, put on an autofocus Sigma 35 1.2, wouldn’t burst or record. Didn’t bother putting an SL lens on.

Perhaps I’ll just use the camera with the m lenses until they sort it out.

[caissa]

If the problem is the power consumption - as Leica hinted - then the cheapest solution would be to use an external usb pd battery bank. It costs much less than a single internal battery or even 8 of them (or even hundreds less than the grip) and the power is several times that of an internal battery.

I use this since several months (Anker devices) with the SL2 and never had a problem with burst shots. I can only wonder why users here try to avoid this obvious and effective solution by any means....

Edited April 28, 2020 by caissa

[Leon_B.]

On 4/26/2020 at 12:12 AM, darrel Crilley said:

This afternoon in the forest, with the battery at somewhere in the region of 80-90% we got one burst sequence of 5 JPEGS before the error then intervened and refused to go away.  Switch to ES only and I could shoot for a further hour recording about another 60 shots via some 10-12 burst sequences.  Further, for present purposes I have been using the little Sigma 45mm lens which I have presumed does not need quite as much energy as the SL 24-90 given that the AF motors are not having to move quite such large elements back and forth.

For Sigma lenses as the 45mm there is an update which optimized the communication of power consumption in combination with the SL+CL cameras:
https://www.sigma-global.com/en/download/lenses/firmware/

Did you try the update? 

3 hours ago, Jim B said:

Well I used the new battery and reset the camera and used an m 75Noctilux. Worked fine high speed burst, and video. The battery was down to 1/2, put on an autofocus Sigma 35 1.2, wouldn’t burst or record. Didn’t bother putting an SL lens on.

Perhaps I’ll just use the camera with the m lenses until they sort it out.

Which FW version do you use with this lens? Did you upgrade on FW1.1?

[Jim B]

Camera firmware version 1.0
Lens firmware version 1.0

But this isn’t just with the one Sigma lens, it happen with Panny 70-200 2.8, and the Leica SL 90apo.

I just updated the Sigma, thanks for the link. It worked and cleared the error message and camera would burst!

 

There’s New Firmware for Leica SL Lenses 3/25/20 !!! 

https://us.leica-camera.com/Service-Support/Support/Downloads?category=128329&subcategory=&type=&language=all

Edited April 28, 2020 by Jim B

[Exodies]

Don’t get too excited:

Please follow these steps to install the new firmware for your Leica L-mount lens:
This instruction describes the update process if you are using a Leica CL to update the firmware of your Leica SL lens or if you are using a Leica SL to update the firmware of your Leica TL lens.
SL-lens firmware updates are already included in the SL-camera firmware as well as TL-lens firmware updates are included in the CL- and TL-camera firmware.