Firmware Upgrade Please

[Eric8255]

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Hi All

 

My first post !!

 

Having now owned the Leica Q for a few months and in particular liking the minimalist approach I still feel the following are significant areas that require improvement all of which can be dealt with in a firmware update:

 

1. Spot Metering: Problem This is only at the centre so to be used effectively one has to meter and recompose that can lead to missing the shot Suggested Solution Meter through active autofocus point either manually or in a priority mode Effect of Suggested Firmware Upgrade no recomposition or button push to lock focus necessary.

 

2. Touch Focus not available if using the EVF Problem when using LCD Screen display touch focus mode is good, just touch or maybe drag the focus point to where you want to focus but if you change over to the EVF you cannot move the focusing point by still dragging on the screen or by the direction pad  having to change the mode for the latter.  This means that when changing from from touch screen to EVF you have to change the focus mode - which cannot be mapped to the fn button (see 3 below).  Thus more rather than less button pushes are needed in this scenario. This is contrary to Leica's minimalist approach.This facility is available in both Panasonic M 4/3 cameras (GX8 which is where I am coming from ) and I understand Olympus although I do not own one. This is odd a Panasonic is in partnership with Leica on the electronics side. Suggested Solution Firmware Update to allow movement of the AF point using touch focus when using EVF as is done on Panasonic Cameras. Effect of Suggested Firmware Upgrade Less button pushes than often required exposure compensation available when in an auto-exposure mode. Less likelihood of missing the shot.

 

3. Focus Modes cannot be mapped to the FN button Problem Cannot change the focus mode without going into menu and sub menu. At present focus mode has to be changed when going from touch focus to another that allows movement of the focus point manually using the direction pad or the rather random multi-point focus a requirement if you are changing to and from EVF and LCD Display. Solution It should be possible to set the EVF/LCD  focus modes in advance and map them to the FN button - or at the very least map focus mode to the FN button so as to avoid having to go into menus.Effect of Suggested Firmware Upgrade less button pushes etc.

 

Additional button pushes - the necessity to recompose in certain scenarios  - can get the camera in the way of the photography albeit not to the extent very common in other mirrorless cameras.

 

All of the above are easy to introduce and very much in line with Leica's minimalist approach. 

 

Other Matters

 

Less important - I would like to have the ability to take DNG and JPEG separately as in general I just bin the JPEGs anyway.

 

I find that there is unacceptable flicker when taking pictures under fluorescent light at f/1.7 - indeed i can see lines in the image review that only appear under fluorescent light at f/1.7 .

 

Having said that the IQ is great and while nothing is ever perfect for everyone a firmware update dealing with 1-3 and the flicker point will make the Q pretty close to perfection for me at least.

 

Regards,

 

 

Eric8255

Edited December 14, 2016 by Eric8255

[beez]

Hi All

 

My first post !!

 

Having now owned the Leica Q for a few months and in particular liking the minimalist approach I still feel the following are significant areas that require improvement all of which can be dealt with in a firmware update:

 

1. Spot Metering: Problem This is only at the centre so to be used effectively one has to meter and recompose that can lead to missing the shot Suggested Solution Meter through active autofocus point either manually or in a priority mode Effect of Suggested Firmware Upgrade no recomposition or button push to lock focus necessary.

 

Less important - I would like to have the ability to take DNG and JPEG separately as in general I just bin the JPEGs anyway.

 

I find that there is unacceptable flicker when taking pictures under fluorescent light at f/1.7 - indeed i can see lines in the image review that only appear under fluorescent light at f/1.7 .

 

Regards,

 

 

Eric8255

 

For the spot metering, if you use single point AF with the spot metering function, you can use the 4-way button to move the focus and metering spot to pretty much anywhere in the frame.

 

DNG only is one of the changes made in firmware v2.0.

 

I shoot the Q 99% of the time at f/1.7 and have never seen a flicker under fluorescent lights or seen any problems with IQ in pictures shot wide open under fluorescent lights.

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[Eric8255]

Hi

 

Tried it out yet again and you are ,of course, entirely correct. Egg on face etc  etc !!!!!  Thanks.

 

Also thanks for telling me about the firmware update 2 - did not know about it.

 

I am glad you told me because since I installed it the flickering problem under fluorescent lighting has gone. Presumably the update refreshed the software and cured whatever was causing it.

 

However still think that a firmware update is needed for my points 2 & 3 - that I think are quite important.

 

Anyway ,no doubt the "powers that be" will see the posts on this forum and hopefully deal with its in the next firmware update.

 

Regards,

 

Eric8255

[beez]

Hi

 

Tried it out yet again and you are ,of course, entirely correct. Egg on face etc  etc !!!!!  Thanks.

 

Also thanks for telling me about the firmware update 2 - did not know about it.

 

I am glad you told me because since I installed it the flickering problem under fluorescent lighting has gone. Presumably the update refreshed the software and cured whatever was causing it.

 

However still think that a firmware update is needed for my points 2 & 3 - that I think are quite important.

 

Anyway ,no doubt the "powers that be" will see the posts on this forum and hopefully deal with its in the next firmware update.

 

Regards,

 

Eric8255

 

Have you seen this thread?

 

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/262971-leica-q-firmware-21-wishlist/

 

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[Eric8255]

Hi 

 

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