Wanted this camera for a couple of years but could not afford it until B & H started closing them out.Now my favorite camera after years of SLR's' DSLR's'and Medium Format cameras.Also really like the dedicated battery grip .That grip will only fit the SL-2 and the SL2-S, so anyone thinking they need this accessory will have to bite the bullet soon while they are still available.Really like your channel
Thank you for the kind words; the channel "at best" is a mess of content! What I will say is that I will always say what I think; I don't get paid, it's my money and my thoughts upon (good or bad) what I have brought The SL2-S so far, and I do love a proper rangefinder camera, is the best thing I've had my hands on in a long time and I have owned a lot of cameras. It is a tank, will I ever stump up the money for an L lens? Probably not, I don't need the video, I don't need the AF... I shoot b&w mainly, but the colors from this camera, like the M8 are just on point Most underrated camera from Leica to date
Just came across your channel Jeremy, and I love the video, hehe ! I'm so happy to see you feel this way about our trade. The SL2-S is indeed sublime. It's one of the best camera I've ever used. On my side, I really appreciate how the Q2 gives more constraints. It's a very little, yet powerful camera ! Thank again !!!
The SL2-S is the best! If you can live with the weight and poor battery life. The sensor is the best I have ever tried. Shoot 12.500 iso and push it further 2 stops in Lightroom - and you still have a fantastic image. The EVF is so fantastic. The AF in AF-S is never failing. Always precise. Not the fastest AF but so good. Enjoy it and now make wonderful photos.
Battery life: get a spare battery, i also only shoot EVF AF: don't use it as I shoot old lens Weight: I have a 1DX lol, I think this is lighter EVF: works with sun glasses which is amazing I'm just getting to grips with it but my god it is probably the best camera they have made I do miss the Q and Q2 because of the compact size and the glass but I am happy with this camera 100%
The Leica SL28APO its amazing. I started with the 24-90 and have now added the APO primes. They're absolutely incredible. Wait to start picking up R lenses and even more M lenses.I have even adapted by S lenses
I'm just sticking with M lenses for the time being... but hey at least now I have a camera that can actually use that 0.95 (that I need to borrow again). The variety of glass out there makes this (for me) something that I can use day to day without risking my sub 10k M8 (Canada has weather) to harm. #firstworldproblem
As a long-term Leica owner from the 1960's to date, I know the drug: the IIIa, wasn't good enough, it was swapped for IIIf, the Summar 50mm F2, was likewise swapped for 50mm Summarit, & so on. Going through the 70's to-date, I've never owned less than 2 Leicas of various vintage, but never one from new. Currently I still own my old IIIf, (with various LTM lenses), a Leica R5 (with 28/50/135mm lenses - still perfect) & a Leica Q & SL (the original versions - which are still very good). The moral of the story is, buy the best you can afford, but don't swap unless you have to! Make as much use of the technology you have at hand. Top quality Leica lenses remain top quality. Eg. R lenses with adapters work as well as when they were made.
Yup; I said it. What do you want? I'm brand loyal, Canon before and Leica now. I've played with Fuji's, my friends have them and they are superb cameras, but it's not what I'm into and not what I want. Photography is about making art, I was loaned a XV100V AND a VX100VI from friends and I don't (simply) like them or what I took with them. The M8 years back ruined me, the Q made it worse, because of that lens, the Q2 compounded the problem... I don't think the SL2-S will leave me, much like the M8 Baseline: you do you, I'll do me. I like the images I get from Leica more than Fuji.
The "S" in Leica SL2-S could stand for Speed, Sensitivity, Stealth, or Small (file size). There isn't a definitive answer to what the "S" stands for. taken from the internet
The SL2-s is a special camera, the build quality is second to none, Bauhaus style. Great EVF and colors too.
Wanted this camera for a couple of years but could not afford it until B & H started closing them out.Now my favorite camera after years of SLR's' DSLR's'and Medium Format cameras.Also really like the dedicated battery grip .That grip will only fit the SL-2 and the SL2-S, so anyone thinking they need this accessory will have to bite the bullet soon while they are still available.Really like your channel
Thank you for the kind words; the channel "at best" is a mess of content! What I will say is that I will always say what I think; I don't get paid, it's my money and my thoughts upon (good or bad) what I have brought
The SL2-S so far, and I do love a proper rangefinder camera, is the best thing I've had my hands on in a long time and I have owned a lot of cameras. It is a tank, will I ever stump up the money for an L lens? Probably not, I don't need the video, I don't need the AF... I shoot b&w mainly, but the colors from this camera, like the M8 are just on point
Most underrated camera from Leica to date
Just came across your channel Jeremy, and I love the video, hehe ! I'm so happy to see you feel this way about our trade. The SL2-S is indeed sublime. It's one of the best camera I've ever used. On my side, I really appreciate how the Q2 gives more constraints. It's a very little, yet powerful camera ! Thank again !!!
Sir, you are welcome
The SL2-S is the best! If you can live with the weight and poor battery life. The sensor is the best I have ever tried. Shoot 12.500 iso and push it further 2 stops in Lightroom - and you still have a fantastic image. The EVF is so fantastic. The AF in AF-S is never failing. Always precise. Not the fastest AF but so good. Enjoy it and now make wonderful photos.
Battery life: get a spare battery, i also only shoot EVF
AF: don't use it as I shoot old lens
Weight: I have a 1DX lol, I think this is lighter
EVF: works with sun glasses which is amazing
I'm just getting to grips with it but my god it is probably the best camera they have made
I do miss the Q and Q2 because of the compact size and the glass but I am happy with this camera 100%
The Leica SL28APO its amazing. I started with the 24-90 and have now added the APO primes. They're absolutely incredible. Wait to start picking up R lenses and even more M lenses.I have even adapted by S lenses
I'm just sticking with M lenses for the time being... but hey at least now I have a camera that can actually use that 0.95 (that I need to borrow again). The variety of glass out there makes this (for me) something that I can use day to day without risking my sub 10k M8 (Canada has weather) to harm. #firstworldproblem
As a long-term Leica owner from the 1960's to date, I know the drug: the IIIa, wasn't good enough, it was swapped for IIIf, the Summar 50mm F2, was likewise swapped for 50mm Summarit, & so on.
Going through the 70's to-date, I've never owned less than 2 Leicas of various vintage, but never one from new.
Currently I still own my old IIIf, (with various LTM lenses), a Leica R5 (with 28/50/135mm lenses - still perfect) & a Leica Q & SL (the original versions - which are still very good).
The moral of the story is, buy the best you can afford, but don't swap unless you have to!
Make as much use of the technology you have at hand. Top quality Leica lenses remain top quality. Eg. R lenses with adapters work as well as when they were made.
Amen
“I didn’t switch it for a fucking Fuji.” 🙄
Yup; I said it.
What do you want? I'm brand loyal, Canon before and Leica now. I've played with Fuji's, my friends have them and they are superb cameras, but it's not what I'm into and not what I want. Photography is about making art, I was loaned a XV100V AND a VX100VI from friends and I don't (simply) like them or what I took with them. The M8 years back ruined me, the Q made it worse, because of that lens, the Q2 compounded the problem... I don't think the SL2-S will leave me, much like the M8
Baseline: you do you, I'll do me. I like the images I get from Leica more than Fuji.
And this little kids is how you get into depth for marginal improvements.
*debt
I know what I want and I know what I like
The "S" in Leica SL2-S could stand for Speed, Sensitivity, Stealth, or Small (file size). There isn't a definitive answer to what the "S" stands for. taken from the internet
I think you could CNC that phrase and hang it on a shelf in your playroom
Not strictly true it didn't cost you anything as you've be caressed into buying new lenses. LOL