This Leica SL review is by Kristen Meister (Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram). Check out also her Leica Q review (more reviews and more Leica topics are available on her blog).
It has been six months since I took the plunge – six months since I sold my tried-and-true Nikon D800 and embarked on a journey to re-discover myself as a photographer with a new camera as my sidekick. That new camera, the Leica SL (Type 601), has provided me with a bounty of photographic possibilities, and I believe I have created some of my best work to date with it in my hands.
Since I started routinely blogging about my love affair with the Leica SL, I’ve received a lot of email from readers (thank you!) asking if I really love my SL. The emails generally go something like this: “Hi, I am considering transitioning to the Leica SL from ___[insert camera model]___. Do you still like it? Any regrets? Is it worth the money? Thanks.”
With the emails about the Leica SL flooding in, it seemed appropriate to revisit my love affair with the Leica SL after six months to see if I was still madly in love.
Be sure to click on a photo for a larger version. Go ahead, peek at those pixels 😉
Without doubt, this is one of my favorite images made with the Leica SL in my first six months of ownership. This is partly owed to the weather sealing that made this shot possible – the sky has an orange cast because of the sand being kicked up by the wind. Good time to have weather sealing? When you are standing in the middle of a Jordanian desert photographing miniature orange dust sand crap.
