Nice review, the strange thing that the battery % is visible if you use Leica Focus app. Autofocus is great in AF-S and good in AF-C, too bad auto exposure and auto focus is limited to 5 shots per second. It would be helpful if it focused only on the eyes and not the body or you could choose.
Hi, and thanks for your video. I had a SL 601, first model... for two years, and the only time it fell on a wooden floor, the battery was stuck and couldn't take it out... Sent it to Wetzlar for an eventual repair... I bought it second hand two years ago for 2'100 USD... Wetzlar asked 2'890 for the repair... Even though I loved my Leica SL.. I had to refuse the repair, and they kept the camera.... I really hesitate to buy an SL2-S... but after my experience of "it's solidity", the camera is not the best resistant as said or pretended to be. One fall and lost the camera. :-((
Really nice vid man. Subbed! I'm seeing this camera all over youtube today cuz I just posted another sprocket hole vid. I think I'm sold though. Gotta get me one cuz doing sprocket hole photos in a yashica is kinda a struggle. Especially to do Horizontal shots. If you want a laugh, check out my youtube shorts where I slam some 35mm in my yashica. BTW that is a nice scanning setup mines so janky lol.
I’m so torn on this camera. I love the size and weight and operation. But the corners are so weak that sometimes I wish I was just shooting a (muskier and heavier) film SLR with a good 28mm or 24mm lens. It often feels like the only usable part of the image is the equivalent of a single 35mm frame. I know there are medium format cameras with better lenses, and there are means of adapting 35mm film into them. But the loading is always something of a kludge, while the sprocket rocket’s film winding is rather good. I sometimes think about getting a torn or broken folding camera, and hacking that lens onto it. If Lomo ever made, say, a Sproket Rocket Pro which used the lens from one of their nicer medium format cameras like the Lubitel 166+ or the LC-120, I think that would be a big winner. It’d no doubt bulk up the camera, and a 75mm lens would have a very different look, but the gains in IQ and control would be worthwhile.
I definitely resonate with how you feel about the build of this camera. I had it as my third "everyday carry" camera while in Alaska as a backup. I love the ability for the Sprocket Rocket to capture the sweeping landscape of an image, but I do agree that if this camera had a "pro" version it would become much more successful and useful. Fingers crossed, hoping for Lomography to release another iteration!
Nice review although I don`t shoot video. You are correct about the focus. Pretty poor. I use mine for general stuff but shoot a lot of equestrian .It misses more than a modern camera should do .
i have this lens. no complains. image quality is good and sharp. everything is good. but the focal length is not for me. too tight, and not enough depth that i need. But i would recommend anyone else if they want to have a 50mm equivalent as their starter.
Thanks for the review. I have a 30 year old Linhof alum & metal german tripod a friend gave me. I reconditioned it with a fresh coat of paint, looks new BUT it's heavy to carry around in the great outdoors I just bought a canon 100-400 USM MK2 lens for my canon 5DMK4. based on your review I just ordered this tripod and the Oben GH-30 Gimbal Head, wish me luck with all the new toys Brian.. thanks again for your review
Thanks for the great review! Btw, I think the sensor on the EVF may be only on that particular camera. My SL2-S Reporter doesn’t get finicky at all. Btw, have you tried setting the focus throw angles? I haven’t seen anyone review on it. I think it helps with the “wired focus” problem. That was one of the features that made me interested in this camera, but I haven’t tried it myself.
I figured it probably had to do with the particular loaner model I received from Leica. Seems like an odd issue to have with Leica's engineering track record. I did read from another comment about setting the manual focus settings to not be acceleration based! I missed that when I was reviewing the camera unfortunately.
@@BrianChoto be honest, it’s quite hard to find how to videos for the Leica SL2-S. Not a whole lot of people use them (at least not on RU-vid), and most review videos are outdated because Leica has updated the firmware a few times. As a result, I’m still learning how to use the camera. 😂 again, thanks for the wonderful review.
SL3 coming real soon, waiting for them to at least be S5iix autofocus performance. Fingers crossed, I've only shot manual focus on sl2s for video or static focus.
@@harrysharma1 prime is not better or worse. It depends on what you are shooting. If you're doing anything where you'll need to get closer to your subject and can't physically move closer you'd need a zoom of some type. It's one of those situations where there is no right or wrong answer. Prime and zoom are just lens types. There are literally thousands of each.
you shot some photos with A7c right? have you tried it in full frame mode as well, or just cropped. I'd be curious to hear how it behaves while having it in FF mode as well. my friend has the 50 f0.95 and on FF it looks pretty dope. So yeah.
Hi and thanks for this video. You replaced the red dot with a black dot. I'm curious about your black dot. Can you tell me more about it? Could you tell me where can I find this kind of black dot? Thanks in advance
14:35 one thing you didn’t touch on in this section is that you can actually change the manual focus settings to not be acceleration based. In fact, you can dial in how many degrees you want it to turn from close focus to infinity! So it’s really the best focus by wire system out there.
16:06 also the Leica 24-70 focuses much faster than the Sigma. As a general rule the Leica made SL lenses focus better than the Sigmas on the SL cameras.
I couldn’t agree more with you Brian. The only thins is that the 24-70 is newer than the summicron I believe. If it wasn’t for the auto focus it would be a dream camera to work with for video. Cheers
If you're into high contrast black and white with crazy resolution, you should really give Ferrania p30 a go. It's a little harder to shoot but the images are staggeringly pretty.
Hey, Sayan this side I have one question. Actually I am a student and just got one second hand fuji camera. Now I want a lens for night time videography. I am also an artist who posts various videos. I have a few lights and as I have my college during day time coming and drawing at night is kind of relaxing but can't record as my current lens has 2.8 f stop. I am planning to buy one lens that will give me the liberyof shooting some film footage for my job and also those of my artworks during night. so which f stop would be a better option for me a0.95 or a 1.2 or a 1.4. I actually don't have a lot in my pocket and at Max can just buy one lens. So if you can help me a bit would be great. Lots of love from India🇮🇳🇮🇳
Hi Sayan. 0.95 and 1.2 lenses are notoriously hard to focus and typically produce soft images. Unless if your 1.2 lens has autofocus I'd stick with a 1.4 lens.
dude, i got one exactly the same color as yours and i love the images it produces. well, its low-fi but it has the distinctive characteristic that no digital cameras can emulate. its a keeper!
Just bought a Sprocket Rocket and looking to shoot some black and white film. Absolutely love the grainy "GIANT CAMERA" shot at 0:05. What stock did you use?
Thanks for making this Brian. Have been contemplating using this and getting a used Fuji xe1 to try and simulate old film pix on street. What you think?
Sounds like a sweet street photo setup! I've been thinking about a combo like this too. The TTArtisan 35 is such a compact lens, carrying it around wouldn't be a problem at all.
@@BrianCho thanks a bunch for your advice! Best of luck with your work in NY! I have been watching a bunch of stuff from Paulie B. And the NY street photo scene trying to learn. Maybe you can connect with follow Korean John Wha. 😊 -Thomas
As far as I understand NP mode activities at 800 ISO so you could shoot it with Portra 800 at night. From my experience Natura 1600 looses sensitivity really fast even when frozen. So I don’t think this really shows what the camera can actually do in low light.
thinking of getting it for $249 right now on B&H deals event! my first tripod, will probably pair it w the Oben GH-30 Gimbal Head. Hope it all goes well, thanks for the vid!
Thanks for the Sprocket Rocket review. When I feel the need for a 24x70mm panoramic image like that produced by the Sprocket Rocket, I load a roll of 35mm film into one of my 6x7cm medium format cameras. However, the widest lens I have for my 6x7cm medium format camera is a 50mm lens. I may try the Sprocket Rocket with its 30mm lens.
If you use the mask to cover the sprockets, it creates even more striking panos. The exposed sprockets are fun, but masking them makes the images feel a bit more polished.
