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New Leica on the way

and amazingly ugly and hard looking. Canon curves could maybe too tooo curvy but that is?
Don't drop it on your toe!
Same sensor is in the M11 and Q3 both of which are much prettier if that matters.
 
reminds me of a 1980s Praktica

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Funnily enough I've been out all day with the SL3 and the 75mm f2 lens. Fits the hand very nicely. I like it. Certainly more tactile than the GFx100s that I was about to swap to. Its satisft=yingly heavy as opposed to bloody hell thats heavy. Its only on loan for a week or two som hopefully I'll get a chance at some nice conditions with it.
 
In the flesh I find it a much nicer looking camera than the Canon R5 which I had for several months last year. Its also more tactile than the Fuji Gfx100s. I would possibly put it on a par with the Z8 for the nicest 'big' camera I've had in my hand over the last year.
 
The previous SL2 is a fabulous camera. Forget the looks. Once you hold and use it, it’s a winner. Few buttons, relatively easy menu system and you can use Leica lens ever made (screw, M, R, S medium format or SL).
 
topoxforddoc said:
The previous SL2 is a fabulous camera. Forget the looks. Once you hold and use it, it’s a winner. Few buttons, relatively easy menu system and you can use Leica lens ever made (screw, M, R, S medium format or SL).
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Having owned and used Leicas extensively in the past (though not currently), I have to agree that in the hand, their use is so often a far more rewarding being a much simpler experience. I owned the original Leica SL for three years and loved it's simplicity and the colours from the RAW files, but the real joy came from using the Leica S, which matched the simplistic, analogue like work flow with the most amazing OVF I've every seen this side of medium format film.
 
geetee1972 said:
, but the real joy came from using the Leica S, which matched the simplistic, analogue like work flow with the most amazing OVF I've every seen this side of medium format film.
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The S is just amazing - the OVF, wonderful rendering of the images from the big sensor and stellar lenses. Still have my S(006) & 4 lenses (30, 70, 120 and 180). I'd like to complete the set with a 45 & 100. Great thing is that I can use all of these S lenses on my SL2.Mind you, I need to win the lottery, if I want a S4 (when it arrives next year).
 
topoxforddoc said:
The S is just amazing - the OVF, wonderful rendering of the images from the big sensor and stellar lenses. Still have my S(006) & 4 lenses (30, 70, 120 and 180). I'd like to complete the set with a 45 & 100. Great thing is that I can use all of these S lenses on my SL2.Mind you, I need to win the lottery, if I want a S4 (when it arrives next year).
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Did you have any trouble with sensor corrosion in the S? It was the same problem on that CCD sensor as with the M9 but if you had it replaced or the problem never materialized then it's worth hanging on to the 006 as I suspect they will eventually become quite sought after due to the perception that the CCD sensor is able to render colour in a more appealing way. ISO 400 is plenty fast enough for most projects you might apply that camera to.
As for lenses, personally, although I owned the 45, 70 and 100 at various times, i think I used the 70 for maybe 85% of everything I shot on the 007. The 100 Summicron was amazing and gorgeous but not especially versatile. It's a portrait lens, pure and simple. That's the only compelling reason to own it, but as such, and given than for portraits anything more than a working distance of about 3m becomes impractical, the 100 Cron limited you to three quarters portraits with the subject filling the frame. The 70 on the other hand allowed you to work everything from full length/environmental portraits all the way up to close ups. But the 100 Cron was still something else!
I cannot see what an S4 would offer that would better even the 007; certainly not colour reproduction. The extra pixels in the S3 aren't even that neccessary for all but a small handful of pro togs making work designed for huge advertising prints, and even then, it's not like we saw the limitations of say 6mp on advertising billboards in the early noughties. Save your money and save the 006 for it's gorgeous clour reproduction and watch as CCD sensors make a comeback in the near future!
 
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