Steve Spencer wrote: snapsy wrote: Steve Spencer wrote: Zorro2016 wrote:
Beside the poor autofocusing performance, the battery life of the SL2 also sucks according to DPreview. I agree the video feature seems to be the only outstanding feature of the camera. Anyway, I would always take any Leica review by a Leica user with a big pinch of salt. We just have to wait and read the reviews once the camera is available and in the hands of more users.
I would say at least one other outstanding feature is the weather sealing. They went to extra mile to meet an external standard that so far no one else has done. That wouldn't matter much to me, but to some it will be important. It also not surprisingly will work better with Leica M lenses than any other off the shelf camera and that will matter to some as well. By the way there is also a review at PC Mag here: https://www.pcmag.com/review/371694/leica-sl2 that is by a non-Leica user (I think it is by one of the Camera story guys from Calgary and I generally like their reviews). The non-Leica review pretty much matches Jono Slack's review. If you want tracking AF, then the camera is a bit behind but otherwise it is pretty competitive in features and even ahead in a couple: use of M lenses as would be expected and weather sealing which I would not have expected. It also comes with a Leica premium price, which is of course expected as well.
I agree it's cool they received an IP54 rating but I'm guessing its S1R sibling would meet or exceed that rating if Panasonic went through the effort and expense to get rated. As an aside, IP54 means "Protected from limited dust ingress, protected from water spray from any direction"
I not so sure the S1R would get the rating. Some of what I read is that the SL2 had to redesign the top dials to work by use of a magnet to get the rating, and obviously the S1R does not have that protection from water entry. Nevertheless, the similarity in the cameras and the lack of similarity in price is obvious. The appeal of the SL2 is that for Leica shooters it will work well with almost all of their Leica lenses and it will have the Leica interface, which I personally really like, but I am not willing to pay the price it would take to get it. If I still had my M10 and the Leica M lenses, I had with it, however, this camera would be mighty tempting.
I read about the magnetic-activated dials too. Sounds innovative but not sure it would be necessary to prevent ingress, although perhaps it's necessary to get the checklist IP rating. For example the K1:
Nov 07, 2019 at 09:59 AM
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