<...>To be recognized by the CL, they should be coded accordingly but I do not know how to do. How to select my second lense for the CL? My requirements include: portait and street shot, sharpness, large aperture, compatibility to the Leica CL body, compactness and light weight. The question seems radiculous. Anyway, your comments will be hghly appreciated.
Toward telling the CL which lens you're shooting, in the menus manually select a Leica lens that best matches the characteristics of your (less expensive) lens choice.
I occasionally shoot Zeiss M-Mount wide-angle lenses, they are marvelously sharp. I "feel" they have a different look than their Leica counterparts (not better or worse). Absolute sharpness beyond a certain point isn't necessarily better if you end up giving up anything toward bokeh look, color, flare-resistance, etc. Not to say that the Zeiss gives up much in the other categories..
But put two photos side-by-side, I'm sure I couldn't say which came from a Leica lens, and which a Zeiss.
Portrait ... on an APS-C, anything from 35mm to 60mm will be fine. If you have a preferred focal length, go for it. You'll need a bit wider aperture to get the same out-of-focus effect as a given lens would on a full-frame.
Is there a reason you don't want to consider the TL 35mm? It apparently achieves gorgeous results for bokeh, sharpness, color, etc. And it has auto-focus on the CL ... A bit less expensive than a similarly spec'd Leica M mount lens ..
Leica M mount versus 3rd Party M mount ...
In general, only the Leica is the Leica. Heh! But yes they're so much more expensive.
I think the decision comes down to: the Leica has a bit of its own thing going on for experience, and much more subjectively, results. You do pay dearly for that, but if you split that extra cost across the years that you shoot the lens ... and compare how much extra you enjoy the Leica lens over those years ... For me it's most often worth it.
Keep in mind that I buy almost all of my Leica gear used. So I bring down that high cost a little bit.
The second image has just a few spots near saturation, which is just about perfect for displaying the largest dynamic range. Great architectural subject matter.
Luo - You might want to check Adobe for the photographer's "package".Suggestive comments, Carl. Appreciated. For the first image, I found that the tower is not critically vertical too. Might have straigthened it a little bit, or adjusted the camera a little when shooting.
I tried to buy a copy of Light Room. However, I did not succeed. Thus, I have no software to treat the DNG files up to now. I will play with the images when I get the Light Room. Cheers.
Thanks, Burkey.Luo - You might want to check Adobe for the photographer's "package".
Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan | Professional photo editing software
It's $9.99 per month and you get Lightroom and Photoshop. I like it because you get updates included. I had issues with Lightroom CC, (cloud based), but the "Classic" version works great on our Macs. Good luck.
. . . David
We’re these with the 21/3.4? They look great!Another photo at the same place of the first image. The dark section is fairly good, full of details . If there were some shimmering on the ice, would it be better?View attachment 15938
Hi Bud,
I bought the CL body and mount the M21/3.4A on it. Therefore, I can onyl focus mannully. The TL lenses focus automatically and it is frequently said that the autofocus is quite fast by the web reviews.
Anyway, CL is a lovely model.
Enjoy.
Luo