SL2-S USER PROFILE FRUSTRATIONS

[algrove]

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I heard with the new software yes it can be on the M11, not sure about SL system

[Pelu2010]

On 1/9/2024 at 4:36 PM, Sohail said:

Can the touch screen function be disabled?

Yes you can 

[algrove]

Having trouble when changing settings to a User Profile already setup.

Any hints on the process to do the above? Thanks.

Edited January 27, 2024 by algrove

[Chuck Albertson]

On 1/26/2024 at 5:13 PM, algrove said:

Having trouble when changing settings to a User Profile already setup.

Any hints on the process to do the above? Thanks.

Go to User Profile > Manage Profiles (second page of submenu) > Save as Profile, then save it as whichever profile you're modifying.

[adikln]

Hello,

I have a question about the photo/video switch mode at the touch of a button on the SL2-s. It is advertised that you can easily switch from photo to video by pressing the button on the housing. This also works for me, as long as I don't change user profiles while switching between photo/video.

I took my time and configured my customer seats for photo.

Now comes the problem:

If I am in user profile 1 and switch to video mode using the button (which I have also configured but not assigned to a profile), this works without any problems. However, if I now switch back to photo mode by pressing a button coming from video mode and consequently select a different user profile for photography, my configured video mode setting is reset to the factory setting when I switch back to video mode by pressing a button.

Example:

User profile 1: Photo, A mode, people detection, AF-C

Video mode (without explicit profile assigned) configured: M mode, AF-C, 4K60, etc)

Switching between these two is possible without any problems while retaining the respective settings.

However, if I now change the user profile to 2 (photo) and then go back to video mode, my video settings are reset (P mode, iAF, etc.).

Is this understandable? Is it similar for other forum members?

Thank you very much!

LG Adrian

 

[Photoworks]

10 hours ago, adikln said:

Hello,

I have a question about the photo/video switch mode at the touch of a button on the SL2-s. It is advertised that you can easily switch from photo to video by pressing the button on the housing. This also works for me, as long as I don't change user profiles while switching between photo/video.

I took my time and configured my customer seats for photo.

Now comes the problem:

If I am in user profile 1 and switch to video mode using the button (which I have also configured but not assigned to a profile), this works without any problems. However, if I now switch back to photo mode by pressing a button coming from video mode and consequently select a different user profile for photography, my configured video mode setting is reset to the factory setting when I switch back to video mode by pressing a button.

Example:

User profile 1: Photo, A mode, people detection, AF-C

Video mode (without explicit profile assigned) configured: M mode, AF-C, 4K60, etc)

Switching between these two is possible without any problems while retaining the respective settings.

However, if I now change the user profile to 2 (photo) and then go back to video mode, my video settings are reset (P mode, iAF, etc.).

Is this understandable? Is it similar for other forum members?

Thank you very much!

LG Adrian

 

here is my attempt to answer.

Profile ONE:  the photo section and the video section can be saved in profile one, you can make all the changes in the photo and save all the changes in the video and save over.
at this point, you get a video when selecting Profile one. If your main shooting is photo just switch back to photo and save one more time.

I would just make the essential changes from the default profiles. You should use an AF lens when doing it because you get a different menu.

you can now switch the photo video options and you should be ok.

If you save photo to Profile One, and video to Profile TWO you are setting the profile every time you switch profile to the initial save.

 

the camera has two different memories for photo and video.
Let's say you only use profile one,  in A mode with F2.0 and face detection. take some snaps and change "exposure compensation" take a few images and switch to video. Your video setting loads and you can film, and you switch to "L-Log".  when you now go back and forward photo/video the "exposure compensation" and "L-Log" should be still in effect until you switch profiles.

PS : you can use a button to switch and it would have been programed in both profiles, but you can swipe on the screen to change mode. you never have enough buttons.

[MarkinVan]

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Also, it seems that after you set your SL to a user profile, once you make any camera adjustment the camera reverts to the default profile in settings

[LocalHero1953]

16 minutes ago, MarkinVan said:

Also, it seems that after you set your SL to a user profile, once you make any camera adjustment the camera reverts to the default profile in settings

Not in my SL2-S. If I select one of my profiles, then make a change, it stops showing any profile as selected, but it doesn’t change any other settings or revert to the default profile. 

[helged]

13 hours ago, LocalHero1953 said:

Not in my SL2-S. If I select one of my profiles, then make a change, it stops showing any profile as selected, but it doesn’t change any other settings or revert to the default profile. 

Same here, I adjust the profiles all the time, everything stay according to the starting profile.

[SJH]

As a general comment to the posts in this thread Leica has had a bug in the Q and SL line for a while now that manifests itself for some and not others i.e. if you select your Profile 2 a small '2' appears against the Profile icon in the quick access menu. If you switch off the camera (or it enters sleep mode in some cases) when you switch it back on there is no number shown against the Profile icon for some people. As a result people think it's gone back to 'default' when in fact the camera is still using Profile 2 in this example.

My SL2, SL2-S and Q2's displayed this behaviour as well as my SL3 now but my Q3 and M11M & M11P don't i.e. they keep the profile number showing against the Profile icon.

Annoying really as ideally Leica should resolve it as we all just want to glance at the screen to check what profile we're in when we start using the camera with a quick glance.

[LocalHero1953]

2 hours ago, SJH said:

As a general comment to the posts in this thread Leica has had a bug in the Q and SL line for a while now that manifests itself for some and not others i.e. if you select your Profile 2 a small '2' appears against the Profile icon in the quick access menu. If you switch off the camera (or it enters sleep mode in some cases) when you switch it back on there is no number shown against the Profile icon for some people. As a result people think it's gone back to 'default' when in fact the camera is still using Profile 2 in this example.

My SL2, SL2-S and Q2's displayed this behaviour as well as my SL3 now but my Q3 and M11M & M11P don't i.e. they keep the profile number showing against the Profile icon.

Annoying really as ideally Leica should resolve it as we all just want to glance at the screen to check what profile we're in when we start using the camera with a quick glance.

Mine has shown this after updating firmware and reloading my profiles. I have solved it by resaving the profile.

My ill-informed guess is that the new firmware has settings with parameters that are not compatible with or identical to parameters in the user profiles from the previous firmware. Perhaps the new firmware records the same setting with a different set of parameters. Saving the profiles gets everything in sync again.

I have no reason for thinking this is a true state of affairs, but my solution has worked for me.

[SJH]

1 minute ago, LocalHero1953 said:

Mine has shown this after updating firmware and reloading my profiles. I have solved it by resaving the profile.

My ill-informed guess is that the new firmware has settings with parameters that are not compatible with or identical to parameters in the user profiles from the previous firmware. Perhaps the new firmware records the same setting with a different set of parameters. Saving the profiles gets everything in sync again.

I have no reason for thinking this is a true state of affairs, but my solution has worked for me.

Thank you and if my memory serves me right we both were part of this dialogue when the SL2-S came out as we'd moved on from the SL2. I to find this works but then it's sporadic with different releases i.e. it works with some and not others.

[MarkinVan]

On 10/21/2024 at 2:04 PM, MarkinVan said:

Also, it seems that after you set your SL to a user profile, once you make any camera adjustment the camera reverts to the default profile in settings

Well, just confirmed. Set the camera to user Profile 1 and the menu shows "Active" , change the ISO to auto and go back to user profile and Profile 1 no longer shown as "Active".

[LocalHero1953]

41 minutes ago, MarkinVan said:

Well, just confirmed. Set the camera to user Profile 1 and the menu shows "Active" , change the ISO to auto and go back to user profile and Profile 1 no longer shown as "Active".

That's correct. Your settings are no longer those saved as Profile 1, because you've changed it, so it doesn't tell you it is. (It hasn't reverted to the 'Default' settings either).

Edited October 23, 2024 by LocalHero1953