Saturday, July 30, 2016

NEW USE FOR LEICA R LENSES







Leica just announced the availability of the Leica R-Adapter L which finally offers a good alternative to use the Leica R lenses on the Leica SL as well as the Leica T.  Today we learn about another new use for the Leica R lenses.

More and more film makers have discovered the creative properties and the high quality of many older lenses.  To allow these optical top performers to maintain their excellence when subjected to the mechanical requirements of film production, the Firm of P+S Technik in Munich is offering a rehousing program where the optical components are transferred to a new lens barrel.

The optical components of these older photographic lenses are used in a housing, which allows an optimal interaction with the motorized focusing and aperture control units when filming.  In addition, P + S Technik has also launched a program for lenses with floating elements.  The diaphragm mechanism of all lenses has also been improved.

Leica-R Apo-Summicron 180mm f/2

Leica R lenses are now incorporated in the SL case of P + S with a front diameter of 110 mm.  The invention of "Floating Elements" was a big, important step in the history of optical design. This technique has been transferred from zoom lenses to fixed focal length lenses to correct chromatic aberrations during focusing over the entire field of the focusing range.

In a classic lens design, the entire optical system is moved back or forth to corerwect focusing at the image plane.  In a floating lens element system two or more lens elements are moved simultaneously and independently from each other. 

Leica Apo-Telyt-R 400mm/560mm module

Often these older lenses are described as being softer and less contrasty than their modern counterparts, but when compared to most vintage lenses, these examples are sharper and display noticeably higher contrast levels.


Obviously this is only a relatively small market, but the very fact that the Leica R lenses are part of this rehousing program by P+S Technik further underlines the incredible performance levels these lenses are capable of.


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Friday, July 29, 2016

LEICA SL (TYP 601) FIRMWARE VERSION 2.1 RELEASED





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By Josh Lehrer, LeicaStore Miami

Today, Leica has released firmware version 2.1 for the SL (Typ 601) mirrorless full-frame digital camera. The new firmware offers stability and performance improvements along with compatibility for the latest tethered software plug-ins. The official list of improvements and bug fixes, from Leica:
  • Support for Leica Image Shuttle 3.4 (Mac)
  • Support for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Tethered Plug-In 1.1.0 (Mac)
  • Improvement in overall performance
  • Overall system stability improvements
  • Overall performance improvements
  • Bug fix: in some rare cases the lens profile data were missing in the DNGs
  • Bug fix: in some rare cases the camera used “P-mode” for M lenses
  • Several minor bugfixes

The firmware can be downloaded here: Leica SL Firmware 2.1

To install the new firmware, please do the following:
  1. Insert a fully charged battery into the camera.
  2. Download the firmware file to your computer (601__21_.lfu).
  3. Copy the firmware file to the root directory on your SD card.
  4. Insert the SD into the camera and switch on the camera into slot 1 (you do not want to have any SD card in slot 2)
  5. Export your User Profiles for backup purposes to your SD card.
  6. Go to camera menu: SETUP/Camera Informaton/Firmware/Start Update
  7. Restart the camera.
  8. If an update for your lens is available, the camera will ask to start the lens firmware process.
  9. Once the updates are done, restart the camera.
  10. In case your User Profiles are lost, go to Import Profiles to set the camera back to your preferred settings if you have performed step 5.

During the firmware update, do not:
  • Turn off the camera
  • Remove the battery
  • Detach the lens
  • Remove the memory card
  • The multifunction handgrip may not be attached

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