Steve Spencer wrote: MAubrey wrote: rscheffler wrote:
US $5995.
S1R in Leica clothing...
Well, that Leica clothing includes micro lenses designed for rangefinder lenses. So there's that.
I hope in addition to micro lenses, it also has thinner sensor cover glass. The micro lenses, thinner sensor cover glass, and built-in corrections could make this camera clearly the best non-rangefinder for Leica M glass and that would be important to a number of people. In addition, it would then be the camera that works the best with Leica M glass and also works with L mount glass like the new Leica SL summicron lenses. One could imagine a kit for this camera that included the Leica M 21 SEM (or the WATE if you wanted wider), the Leica SL 35 f/2 APO, the Leica SL 50 f/2 APO, and the Leica SL 90 f/2 APO. That is a ridiculously expensive, but pretty stellar kit and quite reasonable in size. If you needed a fast wide lens you could add the a Leica M summilux 21, 24, or 28. If you needed longer focal lengths you could add L glass. I can see this as a very versatile camera that can take a lot of different and interesting lenses some of which other cameras could not use or not use well.
Now if you need top drawer AF, then this camera probably won't be for you, but I think it will have a following and for those people it will bring some things that other cameras cannot.
There is some mention of a thinner cover glass in one of the SL2 reviews ( have to find that one again) . Something about 2 layers of glass instead of 3.
Nov 07, 2019 at 07:13 AM
Previous versions of LBJ2's message #15037980 « Leica SL 2 announced »
