5 Tips for Taking Better Photos | Leica SL2

GEAR I USE

LEICA

CAMERA BUILD

CAMERA SCANNING

FUJIFILM

FILMING

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[stuhunter]

Great video as always. One thing: you actually have expose to the right backwards. The idea of ETTR is to push as much information as possible to the right of the histogram not the left…getting the values as far right as possible before any clipping happens to the brightest areas of the image. This gives the most detailed shadows with very little noise which can then be brought back down in the edit, while also retaining detail the highlights as you have made sure to not let them clip. This makes for the cleanest image from shadows through to highlights rather than keeping things to the left which will result in more shadow noise when pulling the shadow values back up.

[jonwalker]

Thank you for these SL2 tips. I really enjoyed them. MORE video please on using your SL2!!!

[raksh]

Very useful, I'll apply as many of these to my Panasonic S5 in the meantime, while I save for a SL2S.

[brcgaines]

Thanks for the content. Would love more content about the SL-2s as it pertains to cinematography!

[jeremygouge]

I use almost identical settings on my SL2s. Great video man.

[janromo]

Thanks Lukas! Great tips most I incorporate but the focus “wheel” on sl lenses I did not know about and will have to look into…

[bunnytobin]

Exactly how I use mine as well.
I wanted to ask you a question. I'm new to camera scanning and just started, thanks to you, using my SL2 to scan some old film of mine.
Do you ever use the multishot for scanning to give you crazy resolution? Scaning some Ektachrome 200 slide film from an old job I shot on my Hasselblad from YEARS ago. The macro I have is 1:2 so I couldn't do the old "shoot two frames filling the long edge and stitch them together" so just shot them with the center of the sensor. Which still got a 32mb file that looks MILES better than the old scans I had done back in the day. Tried to shoot them in multishot as well (cause why not) but a lot of them got real funky in the bright highlights. Just wondering if you have any experience with this?
Thanks again for all the great videos man.

[sergeynikitin]

Sadly, with Sigma lenses you can also choose a linear focusing and the number of degrees on SL2-S camera.😊

[ericrjennings]

ETTR is the opposite of what you explained. It’s getting as much info (light) to the right before flipping and bringing the exposure down in post to avoid noisy shadows.

[ApertureViews]

That’s photography, 101. Exposed for the highlights. I don’t agree with the metering aspect though. Just use multi Field. You get the same result you generally shooting a stop under or a half a stop and use your blinkers