It’s joined by the firm’s Maestro-III processor and 4GB of buffer memory, just as in the SL2.
The tracking is improved, the face recognition is improved, the speed at which it autofocuses is faster, you can use multi-field now and it’s good, the tracking sticks on like glue. Leica has built the SL2-S around what it describes as a newly-developed BSI-CMOS full-frame sensor, which does without an optical low-pass filter in order to capture as much detail as possible. As a matter of fact, we’re shooting on an S1H right now, and the autofocusing is very comparable to the S1H, S1R and the S1 in terms of that update, so it’s something that I think users out there who wanted better autofocusing are really going to like. The SL2-S performs much better than the SL2, in terms of autofocusing. Leica has not updated the SL2 as of yet, they’re saying in the first half of 2021.
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Subsequently, Panasonic did update those cameras at the end of November. It wasn’t fantastic and we sort of saw the same auto-focusing from the S1, the S1R and the S1H when they first launched, as we saw in the SL2. Let’s talk about one of the elephants in the room, autofocus.When the SL2 came out to market, the autofocusing was okay. I have been looking back at my Lightroom catalogue and it seems that I first shot with the Leica SL on June 1st 2015.
Certainly it’s more expensive than the direct competition, but when you consider it’s really 3 cameras rolled into one, and you look at the secondhand prices for the SL, it begins to look like a real bargain. So, here we have Leica’s upgrade to the SL, or so I thought, but it isn’t quite that simple. Battery life, you get up to 510 shots for photography out there so there’s a little bit of an improvement on that. Of course, Leica cameras have a reputation for being prohibitively expensive, but the SL2 is being launched at a price 1,000 less than that of the original SL.