Either way the SL2 looks fantastic and I much prefer its minimal control and menu layout over the Panasonic or pretty much anyone else's offerings.
The evf is now even higher rez but I wonder if we will soon be at the point that we can no longer tell much difference from a usability POV.
Huss,
I own a CL and I love the controls and layout. So simple and uncluttered. From others they also compare the SL2 controls to the CL.
One reviewer in a Leica promotion says the EVF surpasses an optical VF'er.
I have to get past all the hype. I'm sure like any camera there will be the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I found that I could get away with only owning the one OEM battery with the SL, but the SL2 reveals that it is a power hog. Looks likely at least two batteries required for a days worth of shooting. Also $250.00 for a battery. Ouch.
My SL was a bit of a hand warmer due to power consumption. I wonder about now the body does not have so much metal exposed, and rubber I know is an insulator. Not getting too far ahead of myself, but I guess I get an opportunity to see. I'll add an edit and post the SL2 release date for you in L.A. so you can RSVP if you want. Costs nothing.
I also wonder if the AF will be speedier on my native lenses. My 50 Lux renders beautifully, the AF is deadly accurate and not vauge, but like in the reports and reviews it is slow. The zooms focus faster, and the APO Cron is downright speedy already on my SL. Will the Maestro 3 processor speed up my AF?
My hope is that the 50 Lux speeds up, this way I can really exploit the F1.4 and IBIS. Right now my photography is at a turning point. The past 3 years I have been basically working for my gal who has done well as a fashion blogger. She quit her day-job, retired and is busier than ever. Nearly 700k followers, is a Go-Daddy girl (the commercial is still running), and you might have seen her billboarded in L.A.
I did mucho B&W work documenting a disappearing NYC so that when I'm forced to leave New York I have a sense of home to take with me. Know that I'm a gentrifier who somehow became an ethnographer. This body of work that began in 2007 with the Housing Crisis is now kinda played out and now I have an archive of sorts that will take the rest of my life to sort out. About half of this work just remains negatives (135 and 120).
For me it is timely that the SL2 got released now and that it has IBIS to exploit. NYC at night will be my new obsession. I was deeply impressed with the 3 1/2 stop IS built into the 24-90 zoom that Leica lent me for 3 weeks to cover NYC Fashion week about 3 years ago. The in lens IS really was crazy.
5 1/2 stops in body with the SL2 is a dream come true, and I already own the fast primes... I suspect that with the 47 MP that I'm not so sure the non native glass I love will be as great on the SL2 as they are on the SL. We raised the bar of sorts.
BTW I'm good at handheld low light. Now it seems I'll have a deadly weapon. The native L-glass has yet to be fully exploited...
Cal