Tag: Leica SL

Loose Pucks, Light, Location and Leicas: The challenges of photographing amateur ice hockey

In his first experience of photographing ice hockey, the author learns a lot about the game, sports photography, and his Leica camera.

Review: Leica Super-Vario-Elmarit-SL 14-24 f/2.8 ASPH

It's really difficult to criticise this lens; it handles beautifully, looks great and produces wonderful images at all apertures, focal lengths and distances. Flare, chromatic aberrations and vignetting are all really well controlled. Not only that, but for a Leica lens, it's a real bargain... 

Jonathan Slack reviews the Leica 21mm Super-APO-Summicron-SL — sixth in a unified range

It's been a long wait, principally due to difficulties sourcing materials as a result of the pandemic, but finally, here is the Leica 21mm Super-APO-Summicron-SL. I think we were all expecting the 24mm to be the sixth lens in the range (after the 90, 75, 50, 35, 28mm lenses), but perhaps 24mm has fallen out of favour. At any rate, here is the 21mm…

Steampunk: The genre where posers are posers and photographers are loved

Shy of asking if you can take pictures of interesting characters? If so, try visiting a Steampunk event where everyone is just waiting to meet your lens...

New from Leica: Cameras coming in 2023 and 2024

As we come to the end of the year. Mike takes a look at what new cameras we can expect from Leica in the next two years...

Leica and Panasonic’s new joint-venture mirrorless camera

As Panasonic withdraws from development of cheaper compact cameras, a new mirrorless camera is being developed in cooperation with Leica...

In-camera charging: A sensible advance in power management

In-camera charging is a great boon for photographers. But could we be on the verge of using batteries with their own built-in charging circuits...

Abstract Extract: Picking out patterns in the pixels

Unlike painting, where artists literally start with a blank canvas and have complete control over their creation, photography records an existing real-world scene. Creating an abstract photograph therefore comes closer to the dictionary definition of ‘abstracting’ — that is, separating or withdrawing something from something else...

What’s happening at Leica’s posh spot in Moscow

What's happening with Leica in Russia, one of the poshest spots for selling the new L watch? Mike pays a visit to the company's Russian site and it looks like they haven't updated the prices since last week...

A hard break-up: Life without Leica

Is there life after Leica? Erwin Hartenberg rationalises his move from Leica back to Nikon and wonder whether, at some point, he will move back to the Leicasphere...

L-mount Alliance: Three candles and a bewildering array of lenses

It's hard to believe that the L-mount Alliance is only three years old. It has opened up the market for all three participants, Leica, Panasonic and Sigma and brought in new converts along the way

Flight of the Spitfire, with a chaser for some unusual photography

Covid put the kibosh on fun, so what better way to celebrate a significant birthday in post-lockdown London than a very special flight in an 80-year-old Spitfire? Tom Lane was aloft in a spotter plane, Leica SL kit in hand, to record the occasion...