I had the chance to take a few shots with the new Leica SL teamed with a F0.98 Leica 50mm lens. Without jumping in and writing my thoughts about camera build etc I wanted to question the apparent inability to turn off the in camera noise reduction. Taking a long exposure image of say 30 seconds requires an additional 30 seconds for the camera to complete the black image. This of course ties up the camera for a minute which potentially means you can miss the shot. A prime example would be a night pano' or taking a shot of the moon bursting (like a sunburst) over the horizon, invariably you'll need to fire a few shots and choose the best frame.
My way of thinking is that by forcing in camera noise reduction we're in some ways restricted in the same way Jpeg shooters are i.e. all the work is done in camera. There's no way we can work the image with our personal noise reduction in post later.
Perhaps this is a DNG thing, after all the Leica does not have its own proprietary RAW file.
I just wondered what people think?