Botched Design: Leica SL3/Leica SL2 has no Focus Stacking / Focus Bracketing Support?
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re: botched design
re: please fix this Leica
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Sometimes the obvious is just staring you in the face and you can’t see it because you just know something that unforgiveably stupid couldn’t (not) be there.
I've searched the Leica SL3 and Leica SL2 user manuals, and as far as I can tell, there is no support for focus stacking on the SL3/SL3 aka Focus BKT on Fujifilm and “focus shift” on Nikon and “focus bracket” on Sony, etc etc.
Meanwhile, every other brand has focus stacking support and Hasselblad X2D rocks.
This ludicrous botched design makes sense in a way—consistent with other botched design problem with Leica cameras.
Especially without focus stacking support, I am wavering on whether to review the Leica SL3. Focus stacking is the #1 way I take pictures nowadays. If a camera cannot do it, game over.
I’m thinking it makes more sense to revisit the Hasselblad X2D which is a better camera for a similar price, and which now has focus stacking vs the original firmware I tested back on autumn 2022.
The Panasonic S1R not only supports focus stacking, it can do so in multi-shot high-res mode—awesome. Note well that the Leica SL2 is closely related to the Panasonic S1R, with shared lens mount and firmware algorithms(eg multi-shot high-res mode). But Leica has seen fit to omit these key features.
A camera so brain damaged that it does not support focus stacking, has sRGB only for JPG, has no RGB histogram, and that removes the only usable/good pixel shift/multi-shot feature in the industry... that’s camera design by morons. It takes serious jackassery to screw up even one of those things. But to shit the bed with all four wins the prize for incompetent dilettantism.
Roy P writes:
AFAIK, the SL2 never had automated focus stepping of any kind.
DIGLLOYD: wow.
