doug
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Yesterday, as part of my continuing evaluation of the Leica SL for my use, I visited Colusa National Wildlife Refuge north of Sacramento, what I consider a target-rich environment. I didn't expect great art from this day's photography so I was not disappointed . I wanted to see how the SL's raw files looked in a context I was familiar with when using the DMR and a7II.
In a nutshell, I'm delighted with the raw files. Aside from conversion to jpg all I did was use a Photoshop curves layer to adjust black point and (infrequently) white point. That's all. The colors are rich and full with excellent gradation.
Details: I used the Canon FD 500mm L at f/5.6, ISO 400. Manual focus without magnification is not difficult, and in challenging cases magnification is available at the touch of a button. I'd like to see a firmware update to enable two-step magnification on the joystick like the bottom left button has. The first magnification step is usually more than sufficient for critical manual focus and is easier to track a moving target. The other firmware update that would make this camera much more useful to me is being able to make the 'exposure preview' mode sticky.
the pix:
(full detail in the black plumage, no highlight clipping. A first for this species)
All comments are welcome.
In a nutshell, I'm delighted with the raw files. Aside from conversion to jpg all I did was use a Photoshop curves layer to adjust black point and (infrequently) white point. That's all. The colors are rich and full with excellent gradation.
Details: I used the Canon FD 500mm L at f/5.6, ISO 400. Manual focus without magnification is not difficult, and in challenging cases magnification is available at the touch of a button. I'd like to see a firmware update to enable two-step magnification on the joystick like the bottom left button has. The first magnification step is usually more than sufficient for critical manual focus and is easier to track a moving target. The other firmware update that would make this camera much more useful to me is being able to make the 'exposure preview' mode sticky.
the pix:
(full detail in the black plumage, no highlight clipping. A first for this species)
All comments are welcome.