New to SL - a couple of questions

[marknorton]

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An SL3 is inbound so keen to know:

- the grip, pricey (now there’s a surprise). I like them for vertical shooting as on the Nikon Z9. What’s the experience?

- I have a collection of R lenses which were once highly rated (for their time), like the 100 macro, the APO 180 and I enjoy using them on an M. For the L, you can stack R to M and M to L adapters or else buy the pricey (now there’s a surprise) R to L adapter. Is the R to L adapter just a fancy extension tube or does it interact with the newer R lenses to pass information to the camera? 

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[jaapv]

1 hour ago, marknorton said:

R to L adapter. Is the R to L adapter just a fancy extension tube or does it interact with the newer R lenses to pass information to the camera? 

The same for all SL cameras. Only with ROM lenses. Personally I do not find it worth the trouble and use the Novoflex adapter.

[harbelot]

1 hour ago, marknorton said:

An SL3 is inbound so keen to know:

- the grip, pricey (now there’s a surprise). I like them for vertical shooting as on the Nikon Z9. What’s the experience?

- I have a collection of R lenses which were once highly rated (for their time), like the 100 macro, the APO 180 and I enjoy using them on an M. For the L, you can stack R to M and M to L adapters or else buy the pricey (now there’s a surprise) R to L adapter. Is the R to L adapter just a fancy extension tube or does it interact with the newer R lenses to pass information to the camera? 

Stack them. I use a combo of L-M + M-R adapters. Works fine.
No info, but I get the lens profiles on the camera and that's it.

[jaapv]

Actually I have a few L-M adapters and keep them on the M lenses that I use most.More practical than having one adapter and switching all the time.  I do not bother with Leica adapters for uncoded lenses. Nearly all dumb ones work just fine.

[Luke_Miller]

2 hours ago, marknorton said:

- the grip, pricey (now there’s a surprise). I like them for vertical shooting as on the Nikon Z9. What’s the experience?

I have the grip for the SL (Typ 601), but is has the controls in the same arrangement as that for the SL3. As a Z9 shooter you will discover that, unlike the Z9, the SL3 vertical grip controls are configured differently from those on the body.  So when shifting from landscape to portrait orentation you will quickly find the shutter button and joystick to be in different locations from what you expect.

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Luke_Miller

[redrocksjoe]

I have the novoflex adapter that I use on a 16mm elmarit-R. Works great! I love my SL3, guessing you will too. 

-Joe

 

[frame-it]

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5 hours ago, marknorton said:

R lenses which were once highly rated

were????????????

 

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50 minutes ago, frame-it said:

were????????????

 

Here's my favorite R 50 Summilux - good review - https://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/lenses/lenses/page88.html#:~:text=The new 1%2C4%2F50,Summilux-M 1.4%2F50.

[LD_50]

 The SL series vertical grip is pretty clunky. I would say it’s nothing like the built-in grips on something like  a Nikon Z9.  I have a lot of experience with Nikon vertical grip bodies and don’t even bother with the SL series.