LEICA SL2 - Understanding USER PROFILES and CUSTOMIZATION

A litte tutorial on making the Leica SL2 truly "your own" - as requested by people following me on my channel.
I explain in detail
- user profiles
- customization of buttons and settings
- restoring the camera after hard reset or replacement camera by stored user profiles
Addendum: I forgot to mention that you can also quickly toggle between user profiles via the corresponding field on the Status Screen, just try it out :) The customization itself then happens via the menu settings as demonstrated in the video. Happy Shooting!

[@1946gsp]

I just picked up an SL2 yesterday. This video was very helpful. Thanks so much for your posts. They're educational as well as entertaining.

[@mathphotographer]

Glad it was helpful!

[@snoek1971]

Thanks for the effort you have put in this video! I'm figuring out the menu settings at this moment and find it more convenient to switch between the profiles by tapping on the main menu.

[@geoffreyinniss6036]

As usual this was an excellent video, which has helped me very much. I have struggled with User profiles ever since I got my SL2. Thanks very much.

[@Narsuitus]

Thanks for the video. It helped me understand some of the features of my M10. For example, from you video, I realized that I had not saved my User Profiles to my memory card. I did so while watching your video.

[@mathphotographer]

Great - thanks for your comment.

[@2012JHL]

Thanks, you are much more complete than the Leica manual. Please continue!

[@mathphotographer]

thx :)

[@stevenbridgland3727]

Precise, direct, and helpful as usual. Many thanks to you for publishing this. I look forward to the fully comprehensive manual you will/need to write one day :) !!!

[@Surge1045]

Excellent video as always. Concise and to the point! Thank you!

[@mathphotographer]

Many thanks!

[@bmtfilm7538]

Really useful and detailed. Thanks.

[@MAKKAHFOODS]

Wow! Thanks a lot for this detailed video. 😍

[@NikCan66]

Great video and tutorial

[@GrahamBridgemanClarke01]

Excellent. I learned a lot. Will be using some of your recommendations on my SL2-S

[@mathphotographer]

Great! :)

[@peetje28021970]

This helped me massively, thanks

[@madtom67]

Better than the manual! Danke vielmol!

[@brandonburridge]

Thank you so much, super helpful!

[@harrylittle215]

Very helpful video - thanks

[@Traveljournalist]

very useful video , thank you !

[@ronlustig6123]

Very helpful !

[@phase4485]

Thanks for the great video. When setting auto exposure bracketing can you also select 2s timer? Also, can the customer profiles be allocated to a button, for fast access? Thanks.

[@stevenreidwilliams]

Great stuff. Can you assign one of the buttons to select the different profiles?

[@Tringa54]

Thank you for your helpful tutorials. There is a problem with the user profiles: Unfortunately, different M settings cannot be saved in different user profiles. Is this a bug? Thanks for your anser.

[@njomaah]

Thank you

[@karinkooij2976]

Thanks for this video, Math I hope you don’t mind me asking two questions: 1) how can I delete a specific user profile 2) is it possible to assign a button to a certain profile to very fast activate the profile with wildlife photography? Thanks very much! Karin

[@fbonde]

Excellent video, Matt. really helpful. When you export your profiles to the SD card. What happens when you format the card in the camera - will it also "format or delete" the user profiles on the card or only the images? or is it a good idea to keep them on a spare SD card?

[@mathphotographer]

You should store them separately. I never tested it but guess if you format the card, the profiles are lost too. Better be on the safe side. Many thanks for your positive comment.

[@fbonde]

@@mathphotographer thanks, I made a backup to my laptop.

[@scottlurken9667]

How about an explanation of how you can edit a profile? I can’t understand why Leica did not include an edit function on a user profile. Very frustrated.

[@seanzhen9302]

Thank you for the useful information. I recently decide to switch my system to Leica just wondering what kind of off camera flash system it will support. To be more specific, does the Leica Sl system works in conjunction with any Godox triggers? Thank you in advance for the information.

[@Anon00731]

Sean Zhen yes Fuji Godox Triggers work for Leica.

[@seanzhen9302]

007 Thank you 😊

[@Peter-df1br]

Always enjoy your videos. This one I've viewed more than once. Last week I traded in my M10 for a SL2. Now I'm trying to become familiar with it using Leica primes. As in your video, there is a default (factory) profile. I followed your example and created my own 'Peter' profile. Every time I turn on the camera, it seems to return to the camera default profile and I have to manually tap my preferred profile icon.. Is this 'the way it is' or can I somehow set it somewhere to auto open to my 'Peter' profile with my preferred settings?

[@mathphotographer]

Let me look into it. The easiest way to choose the profile is from status screen via touch.

[@mathphotographer]

Just checked the topic on my SL2: when I chose my own profile "mathphotographer" and switch the camera off and on it still keeps my own profile. So it should actually work the same way for you.

[@mathphotographer]

Try the follwowing: choose your own profile from status screen (the icon with the avatar/person) and then half-press shutter button after you selected your profile. Switch camera off/on. Does it then again show your own profile you chose before via tap/swipe on status screen? It should.

[@Peter-df1br]

@@mathphotographer Yes, Thank you!

[@yoavush]

Great video! What I’m struggling with is changing the default user, any idea if that’s possible? Instead of having to keep changing to my fav user profile. I.e - can you set mathphoto as the default when you turn on the camera?

[@mathphotographer]

Default user is firmly pre-populated, you cannot change it.

[@RenePfluger]

Danke!

[@RTOBarista]

Can you do a video on how you set up for M Lenses for the SL2 ?

[@sebastianruhl6221]

Great videos. Thanks so much. If I export the User Profiles to one of the SD Cards and then later in time format the SD Cards to clear the images, do the User Profiles also get deleted or are they stored in a different folder / section that is not formatted?

[@mathphotographer]

The will get lost if you format the card. You need to keep them somewhere else if you need to format your card for storage.

[@sebastianruhl6221]

@@mathphotographer Thanks. Good to know!

[@Mulokaj]

Can you customize the smart menu if you press menu once? can u change the shortcuts?

[@peterlund4501]

Morning, can you have to different M modes with different shutter speeds? One for long exposure and the other for street (1/250) ? I am struggling to set this up. The shutter speed always gets overwritten.

[@edwardkemp7246]

On the SL2, SL2S how do you set a lower limit to shutter speed in auto-ISO and Aperture priority please? I can only see how to set an upper which is strange.

[@gautambiswas7338]

Sorry for asking this unrelated question. As you are based in Switzerland, wanted to know if there is any place in Switzerland, preferably near Geneva, where one can rent Leica SL lenses?

[@mathphotographer]

I am Zurich based. Suggest you ask the kind folks at the Leica Store in Geneva if they can help you out.

[@calvinchann1996]

Obviously you can’t then format the card. When you export does it export it to both cards or just one card?

[@rogerstevens3973]

I have a question I hope you can answer: I set the small top left button ( the one closest to the viewfinder) from switching from photo to video to displaying user profiles. However, when I turn off and then turn on the camera that adjustment is gone and the button has gone back to switching between photo and video. How do I keep my customization of this button? Thanks

[@mathphotographer]

The camera should remember, are you sure you did everything right?

[@rogerstevens3973]

@@mathphotographer I spoke to a Leica expert at the Leica store and he explained to me that the options for that particular function button are not global. They instead are applicable to a specific user profile and thus the selection of any the drop down selections under that button need to be saved to a specific user profile just like any of the other attributes you mention in your video. So for Instance if you are in your Tripod user profile you would hold down the function button, select the attribute you wish and then before doing anything else go through the menu to user profiles and save that profile again. Then the next time you select the Tripod user profile that attribute will be available. The reasoning behind this as explained by the Leica rep.is that there can be multiple users of one camera, say at a studio. This way each user has personalized settings. I followed the procedure and it indeed works.

[@chrisvassiliou889]

any possibility to assign a function button to give me the choice to change mode (say from A to S or P ) without having to touch the back screen

[@arjensnijder_nl]

In shooting mode long press the back Wheel. Rotate this wheel to choose the mode you prefer. Good Luck.

[@chrisvassiliou889]

@@arjensnijder_nl it works thank you , LONG press it was the trick

[@hennievangalen1603]

Thank you for a great tutorial again, but even this ' simple' menu dazzles me. And there is even a friggin keyboard to see.. I am in the market for a Leica R9-D but guess Leica will not honour my request. So, will remain a potential customer for a camera that doesn't exist.