Ivar B

Yes, this annoying. I think the focus should be that the SL2/S is still a superb camera, which will serve you well for a long time.

Yes, prices have fallen a lot here in Norway as well. Those who bought an SL2 or SL2S a few months back are probably not too happy. On the other hand, I was able to get a mint SL2 in box for around $3000 - good for me! Probably quite a few are migrating to SL3, although Leica very much hopes to attract new users.

I use the Leica UVAII 82mm on my 24-90. Excellent filter maybe made by Marumi in Japan, but I am certain that for example a B + W Master is the same quality and 1/3 of the cost or something. A few days ago a 24-90 was offered for sale here at a low price. Why? A 2 cm stratch on the front element. This is why you use a filter in front.

Exactly. This is why.

I owned the 2/180 some years ago and sold it. Idiot.

I don`t need to as I already have and I don`t have any affected lenses. This is the policy: "Wetzlar is no longer accepting any optics (lenses or binoculars or telescopes) that show any sign of fungus. They will be received in triage and returned unserviced if there is any sign of fungus on the glass." Could be that it is their cleaning tools they are worried about also and not spread from one lens to another.

Perhaps so - but why does Leica then refuse to handle these?

You should most definately NOT continue using it. I do recall that Leica at one point of time refused to accept fungal lenses as they were frightened that the fungus might spread. If a lens was fungal, it had to be sent to a special repair shop in Hamburg as I recall, which would kill fungus. I recall this happened to a friend of mine with an 1.0/50mm where Leica refused to accept the lens and also said that the required procedure would bee too expensive. He was able to find somone else, though. It this is too strict I cannot tell nor am I certain that Leica still has this policy but I would take great care so fungus does not spread to my other lenses.

The latter is true and also the case for the SL/EOS adapter. Novoflex staded clearly that they had lost the support of Leica.

I have not tested but it is perfect on the SL2 and I cannot see why it should not work on the SL3. I don`t have an SL3, so I cannot test. The Novoflex adapters generally are very well made.

A roadmap is published at regular intervals at l-rumors.com. What I believe I have read is that there will be a tele zoom. Looks like there are more S than S Pro lenses. Panasonic S 1.8/85 is a very good lens but if you look for 1.4/85 I fully agree with Sohail that the Sigma 1.4/85 DG DN is the one to buy. Fantastic lens. If you buy second hand go for the DG DN and not DG as the DG DN is much more compact.

S Pro lenses are better built and appear more high end. My only direct experience is S Pro 1.4/50 vs. S 1.8/50, where Leica sells the latter rebranded. The 1.4 is an extremely high performing lens and better than the 1.8, but differences are not great and the 1.4 is much larger and heavier and much more costly. In many cases there is no "overlap" as there are no S Pro 35 and 85, for example. I don`t know if more S Pro lenses are coming, but several S lenses are supposedly in the pipeline.

What was the source of the problem?

This is not good. Knowing your skills, we can also rule out user error. Bad for Sigma that such a lens is not stopped in the final quality control before being shipped, but this can happen to everone, I guess

Do you actually mean Summicron-SL and not APO-Summicron? The latter are most certainly not rebadged, but the Summicron-SL are rebadged Panasonic lenses. That being said, most users praise the quality of these lenses as well.