Doug Menuez on the Leica SL's Revolutionary Eye-Res Viewfinder

Recently, award-winning documentary photographer and director Doug Menuez switched to shooting the Leica SL for all his personal and commercial work and is sharing his impressions in a series of videos. In this video, he’s discussing the EyeRes viewfinder. Doug began freelancing for worldwide publications in the 1980’s to cover news, sports, celebrities and social issues. He once stood at the North Pole, crossed the Sahara, had tea with Stalin’s daughter and held a chunk of Einstein’s brain. His advertising campaigns and corporate clients include GE, FedEx, Emirates Airlines, Chevy, Coca Cola, Charles Schwab and Allstate. His most recent book “Fearless Genius” is in 6 countries and 17 languages, has been viewed by over 100 million via worldwide press, exhibitions and talks and is being made into a documentary and TV series. Learn more about Doug here: www.menuez.com The Leica SL is the world’s first camera to feature an electronic viewfinder on a camera designed for professional photography. viewfinder. With a latency time below the threshold of perception and an impressive resolution of 4.4 million pixels, the EyeRes® viewfinder developed especially for the Leica SL gives you complete control over every picture you take. As its image can be electronically brightened, the EyeRes® viewfinder is superior to optical viewfinders, particularly in challenging lighting conditions. It also offers all the options and features that only an electronic viewfinder can. For instance, the particularly large, sensor-activated viewfinder with 0.8x magnification* always shows picture in its final form. The effects of all decisive parameters like exposure, depth of focus, and white balance are simulated and can thus be assessed before pressing the shutter release. Electronic functions like a dual-axis leveling aid, various grids, or Focus Peaking can be displayed in the electronic viewfinder to help you get the very best from your subjects. The Leica SL meets your professional video recording requirements with a zebra function for avoiding overexposure that can be added to the viewfinder image. It’s also only natural that the Leica SL offers photographers who wear glasses a diopter compensation range of –4 to +2. For reviewing exposures, you can choose between the large touchscreen display and the EyeRes® viewfinder, which offers optimum assessment of your pictures even in bright sunlight and makes viewing much easier for wearers of glasses. *50 mm lens, set to infinity, –1 diopter.