Erratic Focus Peaking with R Lenses on the SL

[Daniel81]

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I have an SL.  I have a native SL lens (the 75) and I have several R lenses with the Leica R to L adaptor.  All in excellent condition.  I have used all the R lenses with perfectly functioning focus peaking many times.  But erratically, when I have the 75 SL on the camera and switch over to an R lens with the Leica adaptor - suddenly the focus peaking does not work.  I check all the settings - make sure they are good, I even take the lens and the adaptor on and off in case its a poor connection (but everything is very clean and new) - I turn the camera on and off - nothing helps.  The problem is erratic.  But when it happens, it is a problem across my several R lenses - not specific to one of them.  All of my R lenses are ROM.  Any ideas or thoughts?

Edited November 11, 2020 by Daniel81

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[graeme_clarke]

Hello Daniel,

I trust you and your family are well at this terrible time.

I had a problem with settings changing when switching between L and R lenses on my SL (601), including the screen going black and the shutter locking up.  The camera and L lens went back to Leica in Germany but they couldn't find a fault.  Their advice was not to use the memory card that was in when problems presented themselves - a Lexar 32GB 1000x U11.  I swapped it for Sandisk  Extreme Pro U1 and have used them ever since without any issues at all.

It's worth a try???

Stay safe and well

Best wishes,

Graeme

[Daniel81]

Hi Graeme!  Nice to hear from you.

All I have at home are Lexars.  I just swapped three different ones out, each time formating the disk and restarting the camera . . .  and when I have the SL 75 on the camera in manual focus mode, the focus peaking is there.  With the R lenses, it is completely gone.  Nothing.  So strange!  I guess I will go buy a different brand memory card and see what happens.  Fingers crossed.  So bizarre.

[Daniel81]

Figured it out!!  Aside from enabling focus peaking through the Capture Assistant in the Setup, you also have to enable it by scrolling view options with the bottom right button!!

[graeme_clarke]

There you go!!!!

(Should have said that when the camera and lens (24-90) was back at Leica they didn't have the memory card - so their advice was a speculative suggestion!!!)

Take care,

Graeme