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Leica chief Andreas H Kaufmann posted that image shot on the Leica SL. Of course he doesn’t say it as clear as I am doing now. He writes on Facebook:
Salzburg, Getreidegasse, yesterday, shot with….? Who knows?
Andreas carefully removed all EXIF data but it seems like the image has been taken with the 24-90mm SL lens at widest aperture.
What we know so far of the camera:
– Will be announced on October 20
– Sensor 24MP CMOS
– Full autofocus support
– 4K Video
Three new SL lenses will be alunched along the new SL camera:
– Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 1: 2.8-4 / 24-90 mm ASPH.
– Leica Apo-Vario-Elmarit-SL 1: 2.8-4 / 90-280 mm
– Leica Summilux-SL 1: 1.4 / 50 mm ASPH.
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Thanks Mistral for sharing the Facebook link!
18 Responses
> “it seems like the image has been taken with the 24-90mm SL lens at widest aperture.”
At the shortest focal length, i.e. 24mm, very probably. At the widest aperture, i.e. f/2.8, I’m not so sure: the depth of field is quite important.
I’m not sure either. Depth of field looks pretty large.
Just shot the same with my iphone, downsampled to 4mp and it looks better. Leica fail
Blown highlights, DR is gonna suck
Obviously taken at high ISO because of the noise, but shutter speed is clearly fast (no motion in the people) and depth of field looks large, so a smallish aperture was used. This treatise in exposure 101 could back up the rumors of “best in the industry” high ISO performance.
Also, that’s a tough white balance situation to get right and it looks pretty good to me.
Not bad!
Yes, not bad. It’s hard to judge based on a down scaled pic but there is no chroma noise and the luminance noise is very fine. And you’re right, the WB is very nice. But on this point it could be manually selected or corrected in post processing. (noise too, BTW).
nnn
Doesn’t look any better than a picture taken with my Sony RX1000 III
Yeah, but _you_ probably look better taking a photo with the SL rather than with the RX 😉
Looks similar to what I get out of my smartphone, after scaling the image down significantly and slightly oversharpening it. I’m not sure whether my smartphone really produces that much noise, though.
Try your phone’s front camera, it’ll take a similar pic
Oh no…here we go again! another electronic gadget you attach a lens to. Love photography, enjoy using a camera but gee the technical talk and hype gets very very boring very quickly.
shut up fegit
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Complaining you can’t afford the best gear on a gear page = gay. Pls don’t molest your daughter (or kidnap victim in your avatar). Thanks. Fegit.
Ban this idiot please, thanks.
Leica SLow?
Leica SLeek?
Leica SLick?
I guess its normal for the first images from a new camera almost always look like this. This looks like it could have been taken with any number of cameras.