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Kosovo in one of the younger countries in Europe, but the young people are the same as Germany or France, so I was capturing the old men that are way more “storytelling”. what surprised me, was that almost all the people were man, not woman. Also inside the bazaar to make the grocery shopping.Curious !

Thanks, The third photo is the Q2 in Macro mode, without crop. Thanks, about the 28mm, well, for me it's good, I love 35 and 28, maybe the 35mm is a bit better overall, but since the Q makes a bit of zoom when in macro mode (I think is about 32-35mm) than it's okay for me. The issue is that with a 35mm you can have a 28mm framing, with the 28 you can have the 35mm about 90% of the photos I don't crop them, just make a step to go closer to the scene. Anyway I would have a 35mm f/1.4, but since it would be quite big (compared to the 28), then I prefer the 28/1.7 Thanks, the photos aren't cropped usually, sometimes just some pixels to make the image straight By the way here's the "speaking hand" image in full size, or at least the size that Adobe uses to sync the images: https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/d2e4f59f18d44694a5502dfed30d9105/albums/2f90f339287d04702bb64b7e11ca1d20/assets/1e498ac99201d54904a25c3c640cc4b0/metadata

No worries, everyone has his opinions, I respect your, just stop this discussion here

Thanks! well, if I can I first try to take the photo without showing me (this is the best, because the photo will be more natural), if the subject see me, I ask or I take the photo anyway, I don’t have a universal rule, every time and photo, I have to change my approach.

Yes but it’s recognized by more than 100 countries! Anyway I don’t want to enter inside a “political discussion” but the borders were there, with border-police, militaries, the stamp on my passport, etc… Otherwise I don’t know to call this:

Oh, I forgot some (stupid/useless but cool) images of the Q

Hi, after some years of stop, damn Covid-19, I've done another reportage, this time from Kosovo. I went there because there have been lots of "tensions" at the border with Serbia, so I flew there to capture the climate. Unfortunately (for me) I haven't seen lots of tensions and issues compared to my other reportages (Iraq, Syria, etc..) so I've done lots of streets photos Here are the links to the reportage, so you can view all the photos and read the info: https://www.giuliomagnifico.it/kosovo-street-2022 https://www.giuliomagnifico.it/kosovo-ethnic-tensions Before the photos, the impressions with the Q2. The camera is great, I don't want to write all the great things it has because we know it! Fantastic files, great handing, super fast AF and "usability", compactness, etc.. etcc.. I love it! But I also discovered some downside compared to the Q (my previous camera): the battery is very expensive it hasn't a connector to directly transfer the photos to your device (the worse) the default chargher is very big the default Leica "grip" is useless because you have to unscrew it every day to change the battery or eject the SD sometimes, when the camera is at your neck, it doesn't go into "sleep" mode because the EVF sensor detects "your body" and keeps the EVF active (with a battery drain). How I avoided to some issues: I bought a USB charger: photo I bought a grip from amazon: photo And this was my first trip without a notebook, since I used only the iPad as backup device! But you can read the long procedure at my "tech blog" here: https://giuliomagnifico.blog/photography/2022/09/14/tech-setup-and-info-photo-reportage-Kosovo.html Now some (compressed) photos, just few, full reportage is about a hundred of photos: Let me know your suggestions and impressions, thanks!

I have a reporter edition and I don't see any sign of wear in the kevlar, it should last way long than standard material.

Yes my problem is not set the camera in M mode, with Q1 when I saw all dark in the EVF, I switched the ring to 1/60-1/30... this is not the trouble, trouble now is that when I'm shooting in macro mode (where 1/125 is the time limit to avoid blurred pics) now I don't see all dark inside the EVF, the camera changes itself the shutter time, and I see a normal image, but it takes the photo at 1/4-2"etc... and it's all blurred when I zoom it. As I wrote, I have to check everytime the shutter speed, is less quick than view all dark inside the EVF. This is my only complaint, yes I can rise the auto ISO to the max but the result will be the same: noise instead blur. Instead if I see all dark I can avoid to take the photo, or I can manually change to 1/60 and be careful about the motion, or disable the Macro mode (and shoot at f1.7 instead 2.8) etc... I found a bit silly how the Q2 handles/doesn't respect your settings. I'm trying to say this, but it's my opinion and my way to take pictures, other people with other techniques maybe like it.

No it's not better for me, it's better on other cameras that don't have the shutter speed ring, but with the ring like the Q/M is way better to respect the user setting and if the user want to brighten the photo or change the shutter speed, it can be done by simply rotate from A to 1/60sec. This is because sometimes I make portraits in macro mode, and I can't use shutter speed below 1/125s, I prefer to view by myself when the image is too dark I can't take the photo, but in the Q2 I have to check both the ISO (if I set the maxium ISO at 50k is not usable for me), and the shutter speed that it isn't below 1/125, and this take more time than know that the camera has respected your settings and it keeps the is at 6400 (or 1-2 steps above) with a speed of 1/125. This is not how I make my street photos, and this will make me to change how I take some photos.

But this is not the point, I simply want to change from the maxium automatic 1/125 sec to 1/60 manually when the Q2 reaches the maximum configured ISO of 6400 and it shows a dark image in the EVF. But the Q2 is not working in this way (despite the menu name), it changes the exposure time (lowering it to 1/60, 1/4, etc..) by itself. Since I photograph moving people, the camera became annoying to use if it doesn't respect my/your settings! What the point of having a menu called "maxium exposure time" if the camera change it by itself as it prefers? Looks like more a bug than a feature to me. If I want to use higher ISO I should simply change the maxium ISO setting. I'm not discussing about "what in theory is better" but "what I want to do with a setting in the Q2 that -instead- isn't working as it should" 🙄😡

🤨 I still don't understand... this is not a way to limit the amount of noise if it goes above my 6400ISO. But I don't want the Q2 shoot above 1/125s at 6400ISO, and it's impossible to keep this setting, also if the Q2 settings report "Max shutter speed time", what's the point of this setting if it isn't respected/considered?! Because I want to switch from A shutter speed to manual (using the time ring) with the time slower than 1/125 that I want to use, not the camera that uses the time it wants! Because sometimes I shoot in macro mode and I don't want the camera to shoot slower than 1/125, I want to choose by myself when I have to shoot slower than 1/125. This setting inside the Q2 is pointless, maybe it's a firmware bug if there's this setting but it isn't respected.

I don’t understand, the Q2 doesn’t underexpose by 1 step, it changes to 1/60, 1/30, 1/15, 1/8, etc… also if I configured the auto ISO max value to 1/125. Instead it should stay at 1/125 and display a dark image inside the EVF, like the Q1 did.