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You can now shoot giant 187MP images with Leica SL2

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Then Leica SL2 almost doubles the resolution of its predecessor, the Leica SL: from 24 to 47.3 megapixels. But the latest firmware update allows you to shoot four times that much. Thanks to the new Multishot feature, the SL2 can now produce 187MP photos.

 

Multishot comes as a part of the firmware update 2.0. When you choose to take a photo with Multishot on, the camera uses IBIS to move the sensor, take eight photos, and stitch them into a single 187MP DNG file. At the same time, it also takes one “normal” JPG photo of 47.3MP, the camera’s base resolution.

The new feature comes with certain limitations. In other words, you can only use it with specific lenses and camera settings:

  • Only full-frame lenses are suitable for use with the multishot function.
  • Any aperture between 1 and 16 can be selected.
  • As ISO settings, values from 50 to 3200 are possible.
  • The use of a flash is not possible.
  • The electronic shutter is always used.
  • The multishot function automatically turns off the image stabilization (BIS and OIS).
  • The shutter speeds range from 1/40,000 to 1sec.

Other than the new Multishot feature, the new firmware update adds a few more minor features to the Leica SL2. The video menu has been improved,  the AF-field size can now be changed with a long tap without moving the AF field, and SD-card naming has been changed. There have also been some bug fixes.

The firmware update for the Leica SL2 is ready for download, and you’ll find it on Leica’s website.

[via Digital Camera World]

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  • Why?

  • OMG

  • to then be reduced to 1080px or 1920px long side for social media and web 🤦‍♂️

    • I’ve printed some lovely 187mp images from the Panasonic S1H :)

    • Paul Monaghan at aprox 63″x33″ @ 300dpi (or more dpi smaller size to keep the ratio)? since that is 1:1 of 187mp. :) You and I both know most people never print above 16″x20″ and when they do, it’s generally not at 300+dpi as they are meant to be viewed from a certain distance. The vast majority of images taken nowadays end up on social media or web sites that are in reality, less than 2MP and compressed to hell and back so we are talking at downsampling 187mp to a few percent of it’s original size :) Heck I haven’t even made a print over 16×20 in the last 10 years or so for a client at anywhere near 300dpi

    • Alain Gaudreau that’s true about most images these days being in social media.

      I actually downsized the 187mp images back down to 47mp then printed.

      Why?

      I normally shot Foveon and it has much more color detail over Bayer in a given image size, shooting the panadonic s1h at 187mp and down scaling back to 47mp helped make the images more Foveon like which I enjoyed.

      That and most lenes will not resolve that much detail fine detail but they do resolve more than the 47mp single image.

      I’m not saying its for everyone but its also not a useless feature and many cameras have similar options.

  • Wait, do Leica camera owners actually take photos? :)

    • Jolyon Ralph Nope. Too busy telling others they’re a Leica owner. Like vegans and Crossfit people. 😄

    • They could double their sales by making the LEICA logo bigger on the front of their cameras.

  • The proof is not in the pudding or this article would be filled with photos and zoomed in comparisons of detail.

  • It would need to come with a capable computer & HD

  • who would use the full 187mp …
    Honest question….as this would be way OTT for weddings
    haha

  • Exceedingly necessary.

  • What’s the MPG ?

  • … why?

  • 😂

  • It’s actually just a film camera! 🤓😂

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