A Tiny thing to improve SL

[mike3996]

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SL and SL2 both are very good hosts for all lenses adapted. Decent with Leica M lenses and great with pretty much everything else out there.

Foreign lenses have to have their own aperture rings.

This brings me to my lamentation:  I wonder why neither SL or SL2 allows user to set the thumb dial be ISO selector and the main dial can be shutter speed. How cool would that be. Every point of the exposure triangle controlled with direct dials.

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[helged]

8 hours ago, mike3996 said:

SL and SL2 both are very good hosts for all lenses adapted. Decent with Leica M lenses and great with pretty much everything else out there.

Foreign lenses have to have their own aperture rings.

This brings me to my lamentation:  I wonder why neither SL or SL2 allows user to set the thumb dial be ISO selector and the main dial can be shutter speed. How cool would that be. Every point of the exposure triangle controlled with direct dials.

Since the SL-lenses don't have an aperture ring; where/how would you set aperture...? (just curious). 

[mike3996]

7 minutes ago, helged said:

Since the SL-lenses don't have an aperture ring; where/how would you set aperture...? (just curious). 

My wish only concerns adapted lenses.

Now that you mentioned native lenses, I kind of realize the reason why Leica didn't implement this even if they thought about it -- it would perhaps feel clumsy if a user mixes and matches native and adapted lenses.

But it would be a great option to have nonetheless.

[Photoworks]

On 9/7/2020 at 12:27 PM, mike3996 said:

SL and SL2 both are very good hosts for all lenses adapted. Decent with Leica M lenses and great with pretty much everything else out there.

Foreign lenses have to have their own aperture rings.

This brings me to my lamentation:  I wonder why neither SL or SL2 allows user to set the thumb dial be ISO selector and the main dial can be shutter speed. How cool would that be. Every point of the exposure triangle controlled with direct dials.

the Leica implementation is better if you use ATO ISO.

what you talking about would work only in manual mode and then you loose exp compensation, well it would be all manual.

[mike3996]

1 hour ago, Photoworks said:

the Leica implementation is better if you use ATO ISO.

what you talking about would work only in manual mode and then you loose exp compensation, well it would be all manual.

Full manual is good for the soul. It's predictable.

[adan]

Kinda surprises me the SL/SL2 do not have assignable or adjustable control dials (if correct).

My decade-old Canon 5D2 has a control-setup item in the menus that allows assigning the control wheels, semi-permanently (i.e. until you use the menu to change them again), to control shutter speed, or aperture, or something else. Front is aperture, back is shutter; or back is aperture, front is shutter.

And even reverse the direction (turn clockwise for faster shutter speed, or turn clockwise for slower shutter speed) to suit the user's muscle-memory. I have mine set up to match my Leica M-digital dials. Aperture using the front wheel (closest to the lens) and turning left to stop down - back wheel for shutter and turning right for faster speeds.

[Chuck Albertson]

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2 minutes ago, adan said:

Kinda surprises me the SL/SL2 do not have assignable or adjustable control dials (if correct).

My decade-old Canon 5D2 has a control-setup item in the menus that allows assigning the control wheels, semi-permanently (i.e. until you use the menu to change them again), to control shutter speed, or aperture, or something else. Front is aperture, back is shutter; or back is aperture, front is shutter.

And even reverse the direction (turn clockwise for faster shutter speed, or turn clockwise for slower shutter speed) to suit the user's muscle-memory. I have mine set up to match my Leica M-digital dials. Aperture using the front wheel (closest to the lens) and turning left to stop down - back wheel for shutter and turning right for faster speeds.

The SL does all that. I think the OP wants the same functionality for setting ISO. I don't change ISO that much while shooting, so it's assigned to one of the long-press buttons on the back.

[LocalHero1953]

You can swap the direction of the dials. I am also surprised that the dials don't have more functions to assign, though I would stick with them as they are. ISO adjustment is the obvious one to add. The CL has an alternative way of doing it with a button in the dial to bring up an alternative dial function.

Edited September 9, 2020 by LocalHero1953

[mike3996]

I think for Leica SL and SL2 there's more such people that don't own any native L mount lenses nor will even consider ones, than for any other mirrorless system.

It may be a low percentage but who knows, the number could be 10% or even more.

For all these users the aperture dial is just wasted space on the camera. For all these users, maybe a fraction of them would shoot full manual exposure but the feature wouldn't hurt or confuse.