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As I've mentioned in a different post, I'll be visiting London in a couple of months to pick up a used SL2 (or SL2-S, not made my mind up yet) hopefully from Red Dot Cameras. I know there's also the official Leica stores at Mayfair and Harrods, but can anybody recommend other camera shops to visit while I'm in the city - preferably that deal with Leica and have used stock to look at? Might as well make a day of it and indulge my camera obsession as well as sightseeing!

Is there any specific reason to choose an SL2-S over the SL2? I don't do any sort of videography with cameras (got my phone for that if I really need to) as I'm purely a photographer. I also prefer the higher mp count of the SL2 as there's better results if I need to crop-in. Is it because it's smaller/lighter/cheaper, or purely a personal preference that people go for the SL2-S. Just interested as from what I can see on the used market they are around the same price.

Does anybody have experience of the Red Dot Camera store in London, near The Barbican? Will finally have enough saved to buy a used SL2 in August so thought I might have a day trip out to the big smoke all the way from Norfolk and visit the official Leica stores and Red Dot Camera to see what used stock they have in. Yes the SL2, not the SL2S, because that's the camera I want. No, not the SL3, because I would have to get a mortgage and the SL2 is perfectly fine for what I want to do. Luckily I currently have a Lumix S9 with some Lumix L mount lenses, so I can wait and save up for some proper Leica glass later in the year (24-70 or 24-90, not decided yet)

I have the lens coming tomorrow and was wondering....if you have the S9 set in aperture priority, do you select the aperture from the ring on the lens, or put that in A mode and select the aperture from the camera?