Re: Leica SL images and specs. Looks somehow familiar...
Very interesting review by Kristian Dowling (part 2) here.
He considers the VARIO-ELMARIT-SL 24-90mm lens far better than most competing lenses — and those only cover the 24–70mm focal range. On color, from the SL he writes:
This is where I get really excited. The colour coming from the SL is the best I’ve seen from any 35mm system camera to date. Everything from skin tones to skies and landscapes come out with great accuracy and more importantly, consistency from the AWB sensor. It’s theoretically impossible for a white balance sensor to be accurate all the time, just like an exposure meter, but the SL gets pretty close to it, in many different lighting situations...Like other recent Leica cameras, there is a slight lean towards the orange spectrum, so I reduce the orange-channel saturation a little, to get the skin tones exactly where I like them.
The red-orate issue that he refers to in the last sentence echoes what Ron Scheffler wrote earlier in this thread (i.e., somewhat like that of the color rendition of the M240) — and makes me skeptical of the statement that the SL color \"is the best\" of \"any 35m system to date\". All this raises the M9 vs M240 color rendition question, on which many people are divided. I take it that the latest SL profile in Lightroom 6.3 still doesn\'t solve the red-orange tint for skin tones. I\'ll be interested to see what comes out if all this.
Nov 24, 2015 at 06:17 AM
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