Newly acquired SL2-S, exposure issues

[tpf1952]

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Been a steady Leica M-10 user for several years, bought into the SL system when it first came out, but let it go until today, when I picked up a new SL2-S. Still getting used to it’s behavior but discovering some odd issues with exposure. Shooting with Leica M lenses with Leica L to M adapter; shooting in manual exposure mode. Enhanced Live View is set to OFF. So when I load images into Lightroom, my exposures in the Library module look as I set exposure, and the text “embedded preview” displays on my computer screen’s bottom right. Yet when I look at the same image in the Develop module, the images look much darker. I have to make a stop and half increase is Exposure to correct the image. The histogram in Library and Develop modules remain unchanged. What’s going on?

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[tpf1952]

Replying to my own post above: Unlike Sony cameras, and even the Leica M-10, the SL2-S does not seem to produce accurate previews in Lightroom when using the default “Embedded & Sidecar” method. If you embed “standard” previews when importing SL2-S files into Lightroom, the images in the Library and Develop modules match more closely. Does anyone here on the forum have the same experience using their SL2-S with Lightroom?

Many thanks for and reply.

Tom

[SrMi]

When using the "Embedded" preview, Lightroom displays the image using the JPG embedded in the raw file instead of a preview generated from the raw. That changes once you switch to the Develop module when Lightroom computes the displayed image based on the raw image.

So, what you see is a difference between the generated JPG and DNG. This difference can be big when you have turned on iDR. If you want the JPG to match your recorded DNG better, turn iDR off. I do not care about the difference, as I do not use the image brightness in EVF to set the exposure. I set the iDR to high to see more details in the shadows and refer to the histogram and highlight clipping to set the exposure.

Also, if you set your JPG setting to B&W, the embedded preview will show a B&W image, but it will change to a color version once you switch to the Develop module.

[tpf1952]

Super! Thanks for sharing your insights. Very much appreciated!