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Nikon makes a range of very good lenses - if you can get a 'good copy' - Zeiss makes a range of even better lenses for Nikon mount - problem is they are all manual focus and here is the rub (as alluded to by a few posters above) it is very difficult to 'nail focus' especially wide open even if all the internal bits of the Nikon camera are aligned properly - see volumes of discussion re quality control regarding 800 series and even current 850...hence the autofocus issues many report....all due to the very very tight alignment tolerances required for 35+megapixel resolution....Has anyone here dropped their Leica SL for the D850? I'm growing tired of a lack of prime lenses and after trying out the D850 with the 105 1.4 I was smitten. With these newer E lenses is the gap between Leica glass and Nikon narrowed?
Thanks
Sorry to disagree - the autofocus on my SL with 24-90 and 90-280 lenses is nothing short of outstanding.I actually had expected that Nikon would make the D850 with some integrated EVF (aka Hybrid VF). Unfortunately that did not happen, either because they cannot do it technology wise or they do not want to do now as they want people to wait for their mirrorless FX camera that should be out in 2018. And then one can only hope that this camera will have enough MP for high resolution needs.
Meanwhile the SL is still a very good solution for appropriate manual focusing of different high end glass, but the AF system and also the MP count is not up to what is possible today. I do hope that Leica replaces the current SL soon with a high res version with highly improved AF system (PDAF on sensor) and maybe even a backlight sensor. Once that happens I might be intrigued to move to an all over Leica SL system with SL glass and adapting my many wonderful M lenses as well.
I do hope that will happen sooner than later
Sorry to disagree as well - there are only CDAF points and this is a clear disadvantage to PDAF implementations. The Sony A7RII offers 499 PDAF points and the A9 even 693. Anything I did not see?Sorry to disagree - the autofocus on my SL with 24-90 and 90-280 lenses is nothing short of outstanding.
That's nice but it's also far short of even the previous generation Nikon AF capability. Also Nikon manages to make zooms that aren't variable aperture which is nice.Sorry to disagree - the autofocus on my SL with 24-90 and 90-280 lenses is nothing short of outstanding.
Looking on the bright side, Leica support has been expanded in C1 Pro 10 and the SL (and M10/Monochrom) is supported. :thumbup:Last thing is specific to me, and that's the ability to fully utilize CaptureOne to process the raws.