Worse than that, they’ve replaced the beautiful Bauhaus brutalism with a kind of soft edged version, all the edges smoothed out and finessed.īut it’s my job to test these cameras, so I have, and my thoughts are below.Īs usual I should stress that my remit is to test cameras, not to write reviews, and if I find something wrong, then my duty is to tell Leica about it (not you). Added to which the strap lugs on the SL2 stick out, and it only has 3 buttons on the back (rather than the 4 on the SL), and they have writing on them! So why would I want something different, and let’s be honest – how often does one really NEED 47mp.

The SL still fulfills all my requirements, and I’m still in love with the interface. I have no idea how many pictures I’ve taken with it, but I have around 20,000 saved images (and I’m really very brutal about culling) I would estimate well over 200,000. It has performed flawlessly, and I know it better than any camera I have ever used. Nearly four and a half years on, my camera has been through hell and high water, Rain and sweat and dust and seaspray, it’s been banged against walls and pulled onto the floor by children. Since then I’ve photographed lots of events, seven weddings and hundreds of landscape, environmental and wildlife images (and even some street photography). I have been looking back at my Lightroom catalogue and it seems that I first shot with the Leica SL on June 1st 2015.

USB 3.1 Gen1 Type C, HDMI 2.0b Type A 3.So, here we have Leica’s upgrade to the SL, or so I thought, but it isn’t quite that simple. Viewfinder Magnification (nominal/claimed):Īuto, Daylight 5200 K, Cloudy 6000 K, Shade 7000 K, Tungsten 3200 K, HMI 5600 K, Fluorescent warm 4000 K, Fluorescent cool 4500 K, Flash 5400 K, Grey Card, Grey Card Live View, Manual color temperature 2000K to 11500K Viewfinder Magnification (35mm equivalent): MP4: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Audio Format: 2ch 48 kHz/16 bit, AAC), MOV: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Audio Format: 2ch 48 kHz/16 bit, AC-3)Ĭontrast-detect AF with depth mapping 'Leica Object Detection AF': 225 zones Spot (can be shifted), Field (can be shifted), Multi-Field, Zone, Face detection, object Tracking, optional Touch AF Smart AF (autonomously selects AFs and AFc), AFs (picture taken only after successful focusing), AFc (picture can be taken at any time), AF setting can be savedĮVF: 5.76M-dot 'EyeRes' OLED, 0.78x magnification (50mm lens at infinity, -1dpt), 100% coverage, 21mm eyepoint, -4 to +2 diopter, 120 fps, eye sensor

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