SL lenses with aperture wheel on the lens?

[Pelu2010]

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Hey,

 

👋 

I would love the SL lenses with an aperture wheel on the lens. This would make the working in manual mode so much easier. As you would use the left hand for the aperture and the right hand for exposure and exposure compensation.

 

Anybody on this boattrip? 
 

I am using different lenses from all kind of manufacturers on my SL camera. 
 

And every time I put an autofocus lens with aperture in the front of the lens on my body, I am thinking : why are there only M lenses from Leica that can do this? 
 

I would prefer to have this dial on the lens. 
 

Do you ? 
 

cheers 🥂 

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[jankap]

Wheel?

[Pelu2010]

Aperture Ring ! 
 

Like all lenses had when they where manual 

 

I find it easier to dial in the apertures with such a ring 

 

like the q, q2, q3 

or some of the sigma lenses that have aperture rings 

[Chris Nebard]

On 4/20/2024 at 2:49 PM, Pelu2010 said:

Hey,

 

👋

I would love the SL lenses with an aperture wheel on the lens. This would make the working in manual mode so much easier. As you would use the left hand for the aperture and the right hand for exposure and exposure compensation.

 

Anybody on this boattrip? 
 

I am using different lenses from all kind of manufacturers on my SL camera. 
 

And every time I put an autofocus lens with aperture in the front of the lens on my body, I am thinking : why are there only M lenses from Leica that can do this? 
 

I would prefer to have this dial on the lens. 
 

Do you ? 
 

cheers 🥂 

Yes, in manual or aperture priority modes, this is my preferred method for selecting aperture (as opposed to using an assigned wheel on the camera). The Q works this way, M lenses obviously do, and it’s intuitive. This is one of the reasons I use Sigma DG DN Contemporary lenses, particularly if I want to use an autofocus prime. At some point I may buy an SL Apo prime, but I would definitely miss the aperture ring. When I use my SL zoom, I still search for it with my left hand - just through muscle memory from fifty years of taking pictures. If Leica were to produce a range of small, L Mount, autofocus primes (perhaps Summicron/Elmarit f2 or f2.8) with aperture rings on the barrel, I would buy them. In the meantime, I love using the Sigmas. They look, and feel, as if they were made for an SL and, for me at least, the image quality is very good. 

[Almizilero]

I guess you're talking particularily about the Leica lenses, but most of the Sigma prime lenses offer an aperture ring. So does the excellent 50/1.4 from Panasonic. Why Leica omitted them is a mystery. Probably a design decission. Or they'd have to be even more expensive, since it's a more complicated build.

[tomasis7]

m lenses?

[jaapv]

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Sigma 70-200/2.8 has an aperture ring which can be locked on A by a switch and can be unclicked for video use by another switch. 

[Pelu2010]

1 hour ago, jaapv said:

Sigma 70-200/2.8 has an aperture ring which can be locked on A by a switch and can be unclicked for video use by another switch. 

That’s what I mean. 
I would love to have the Leica sl lenses with aperture ring too. 
 

maybe to Variances > one classic sl lens with out

and the new lenses with ring