Great video Nick and love the examples shown.

I agree. I use the M-lenses on my SL2 and I love the results. BTW, the image of the cyclist with the reflection on the water pond is superb. Thanks for another great video.

Great presentation on the potential of wide angle lenses Nick. And awesome photography.

Explaining the adaptor with M lenses in great details. Very helpful indeed. Much appreciated Nick.

Amazing video, thank you for your work :)

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Nick!! Another wonderful video, so very well explained, as usual. I started out with a CL and purchased the TL 18, 23, and 35mm lenses, I recently purchased a SL2 and the TL glass work perfectly but I haven’t purchased any SL Lenses yet. I was going to buy the new SL 24-70 Elmarit but I think you just changed my mind. I may now go with the adapter and start to build a M system lens kit for my SL2, I intend to buy an M someday (albeit no time soon as to avoid a divorce..haha) and this way I will already have the lenses. Please keep up the great work!!!!

Great, informative teaching as always! Thank you so much from Belgium! Bart

Beautiful Pictures, Nick - thanks for that. Greetings from Germany and stay healthy! -- Andreas

It is incredible how sharp you can capture images with the "M-Adapter for L" on my SL2-s. I used the directions on this amazing video... with tip and info given, and WOW, my images are the sharpest I've ever taken. I used the adapter with my Summilux-m 1.4 at its widest, 1.4. Just Amazing. I can't get over how sharp images are. It is incredibly easy to focus using the on body Viewfinder eyepiece of the SL2-s. Thank you for this great video...

Totally agree with you, the Noctilux 0.95 is much more suited to the SL2-S than to the Leica M. I had the chance to try it recently, it's a real pleasure. Thank you very much for your videos.

Great video! I have the Leica CL along with M -> L adapter, it works great with M type lens and other vintage manual focus lens using another adapter to the M -> L one. Great photos you took !

I use and R 180 APO with my SL2-S and it is one of the best photographic experiences of my LIFE! And I also use the R 100 Elmarit macro (one of the best Macros ever!) on my SL2-S . . . whoa! with the in body stabilisation and the remarkable low light performance of the SL2-S . . . I do handheld macro work with the R 100 Elmarit with a very high proportion of successful shots for shots taken!

Wonderful photos.

Fantastic information! I have an SL and SL2, using the L lenses and have contemplated purchasing several M lenses. My. mind is completely made up now....it will happen. I actually love using the L lenses on manual focus, as it works impeccably. Travel will become a bit lighter during the day with a couple of M's and I know the results will be stellar! I have the feeling this is just the start of a whole new thought process, but kind of a throw back to when I got my first ' real' camera, a Pentax K-1000 about forty years ago. This video and the information contained should be considered a must see for any owner of an S or Sl body.

Very light on useful information.

This is an absolutely informative session. Thank you so much Nick! One question about using M lenses on SL2: Will the general 0.7M MFD with M lenses stays the same or be much closer once used on mirrorless SL2?

félicitation pour cette très belle vidéo ..très belles explications , de la part d'un passionné ...bravo!!!!

I loved this video you did it really perfect. I have some M lenses that I confirm it’s a real joy and pleasure to use on L Mount cameras with amazing EVF. And yes I can confirm also your point about the difficulty for an AF lens to make the focus exactly where you want it to be. I made better pictures with the M90 Elmarit 2.8 than with the APO SUMMICRON SL 90mm some times !!! But the APO SL is so so so beautiful and sharp and color perfect !

A very timely video for me. Just purchased the SL2 for my several M lenses. Focusing should not be a problem with wide angle lenses, but I am mainly looking forward to achieving a far better score with my vintage 90 mm and 135 mm lenses.

really helpful video thank you so much explained in such a easy way. Great job !

Thank you, The moment I enjoyed most was when you fitted the Leica M mount adapter to the SL and then fitted an M lens. It happened so quickly, easily and naturally. I can see where the A$680 adapter is worth the money, and of course it has the 6 point code connection. I bought a $22.50 adapter from Amazon for my Panasonic S5 (L mount) and it fitted so tightly to both camera and Zeiss M mount lens that I decided never to use it again, let alone on my Leica M lenses, in case it damages them. Same for any other non-Leica adapter which all can have the same problem, from reviews I've read. I will order the Leica adaptor from Leica Chadstone, if they really have a store there, or from Camera Lane if they have one.

great point Nick, that manual focus does have it's place, esp. the fact that if you release the shutter button, the AF doesn't activate again, the next time you 1/2 press the release again!!

Thank you for your explanation. 🙏

Great video

good photos!

Good video Nick - enjoyable and informative. One question - you (and others) often speak about lens "draw" but nowhere have I seen that term explained. Could you please enlighten me (us)?

Really impressive examples to show how 18mm can do with excellent skill.

Hi Nick. Thanks for another useful video. I just attached my Summilux 50mm to my SL2 via this adapter. Although the auto mode in the lens profile chose the correct lens, the chosen aperture is not shown in the viewfinder, just a dash. Is this correct?

Hi Nick, I am from germany and about to get my own sl2-s 😁. Thank you for your great video, best so far covering the aspect of using those wonderful m-lenses in combination with the capability of a sl2 based camera system. I would like to get an old m-lens (summilux 50mm) since they are a lot "cheaper", but is there a problem with the missing 6-bit coding? I know some of the old ones can be updated with a 6 bit code by leica (they just groove em in) but only for those with screwed on bayonets. Are there issues concerning IBIS for instance with those old m-lenses and can I find any old m-lense in the sl2-s menue when configuring manually without code connection or would I have to choose a similar newer version of that lens and it would work just fine then? So many questions 😬Thank you so much for your thoughts.

I haven’t tried an SL lens but I’ve enjoyed my 35, 28, and 50mm M lenses so much that I haven’t wanted to try anything else yet. I’m 65 years old so my eyes aren’t very flexible anymore so the SL viewfinder and the zoom function get me more properly focused shots than I accomplished with the M camera. I have a Nikon camera and all of my high priced lenses, for the d800, have been ruined by fungus. Under the same conditions of humidity none of my M lenses have that issue so I want to tell people who decry the M lenses as being wastefully expensive that my experience has shown that after using them for years they are still worth most of the original purchase price, while my Nikon lenses are worthless. All in all the SL is my favorite camera that I have owned and I would recommend it to anyone.

Hi Thanks again. I like your videos. They are very informative. Amongst others how to clean my SL2 sensor. That helps me a lot. I have a question for you. I saw a 2 hour video of Leica Singapore with Peter Karbe lecturing on the lens build of SL2 lenses and was a bit surprised to hear Peter stating that M-lenses on the SL2 might work well but that you probably want to stop down Summilux lenses to 2.0 to get better rendering and sharpness. As an SL2 owner with a Lux-m-35 and 50mm ASPH, I was a bit confused to hear that. In other videos, the SL2 with m-lenses is very much promoted. My assumption is that the APO M lenses would have sufficient quality looking at the MTF charts to get the best out of the SL2. Wondering if you can do a video on this subject. Thanks! René

Hello, i’m going to buy a SL2S . Il have already a M10P and i love it. I would use my SL2S with mynM Lens but i hesitate between the adaptator ring Leica (but very expensive) and the Novoflex ring (Half price) Do you think that there is a réal différence between both? Thanks for respons.

Question: When you use Noctilux on SL on your images shown in this video, do you set F/0.95 on all images? Thanks. Beautiful images on Noctilux. I truly learn from this video. Thank you.

Question, how does the SL2 and SL2s handle the ray angle issue with non M cameras using M lenses, especially the 21mm and 28mm. Thank you!

Hello Nick, do you sometimes use the peacking? Philippe from France.

Hi Nick… does the adapter work just the same on the SL… Cheers

I have been using g Voigtlander M lenses on my sl2S using focus peaking, which works when I set all the customer function ob . I guess I have to set it on a custom button. How is that done, Nick

Hello again Nick, With M lenses on the SL2S, there is no automagnification with M lenses although the setting is set to on (menu Focus Assist, Auto Magnification). Is it normal? Or do I miss something. Philippe

I think there is a big market for a hybrid between SL and M cameras. The compact and the non-range finder hybrid will satusfy many photographers. I have M10-R to carry around but wish it had an EVF like SL. I do have Visioflex but it is not very good and feels outdated even though paid almost $800 ;( Also once it's on it covers the shutter speed dial info which makes no sense. Thank you for the video

I love Leica equipment but to be perfectly honest I did not find any of these images to be in sharp focus. And this has been my experience with other images I have seen online taken with manual focus lenses. What would account for this? I do see a lot of pictures on the internet that are very sharp . . . and I assume that the very large majority of them were taken with AF lenses. So is it in fact improper focus by the photographer using manual focus that accounts for the softness of images I almost always see when looking at images that were taken with MF lenses? I know from personal experience manual lenses can take extremely sharp pictures but I rarely see any when looking online. Any thoughts?

Which is your preferred Noctilux.. 75 or 50?

Does anyone has advice/ experience trying to mount a Voiglander M lens (non 6 bit) on the SL2? I am facing some problem with the camera trying to recognise the lens and render the camera not workable. I have tried to set the lens detection to off, but it keeps coming back again. thanks again if anyone can share.

how does it affect the weather sealing?

my 75 sum micron m doesn't focus at infinity on sl2.

Not happy I want to use m42 mounts on my sl2s it does not like a dumb Adaptor but the Cl does why

Have Leica abandoned SL 601 owners now? Because in this video you stress the adapter is for the SL2 and SL2S cameras. Not great really.

can I use this adapter for Lumix S1R L mount body, and using Leica M lenses(manual). In theory. It should be yes, but any issues causing problems in imaging.