Whitford Posted April 24, 2019 Share #41 Posted April 24, 2019 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Another thing I'd like is for the focus peaking to not turn off once you've tripped the shutter. Edited April 24, 2019 by Whitford 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stephen_C Posted April 24, 2019 Share #42 Posted April 24, 2019 Easier framing with picture data displayed or, alternatively, the ability to display the horizon grid line when choosing to display no picture data. Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michal G Posted May 11, 2019 Share #43 Posted May 11, 2019 Other crop formats, ex. 54x20 pano mode and 1x1 square. I know you can crop in post but this is not the same. Plus that should be trivial from the point of view of code change for software. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 11, 2019 Share #44 Posted May 11, 2019 But it complicates the user interface. Something Leica will avoid. I don’t see them doing this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michal G Posted May 11, 2019 Share #45 Posted May 11, 2019 (edited) It could just add two more frames when you cycle through with the button. But I also don’t see this coming. But would be nice... Edited May 11, 2019 by Michal G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 11, 2019 Share #46 Posted May 11, 2019 I think that Leica will see it as running contrary to their philosophy, but who knows, Barnack moves in a mysterious way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESS Posted May 22, 2019 Share #47 Posted May 22, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) My 2 priorities: 1 - Option to have cropped images fill the viewfinder 2 - The ability to actually use studio flash! Although I never envisaged using the Q2 with studio flash when i purchased it, when my Nikon D800 just failed i was hugely disappointed to find that it seems impossible to use the Q2 for a studio shoot, because the viewfinder (showing the actual exposure preview) is too dark to compose with. Could this feature be turned off? (I've read that it can be in the SL) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted May 23, 2019 Share #48 Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) On 4/6/2019 at 1:18 PM, pico said: Certainly it is. Compressed DNG? (Lossless or not?) To what end, please? In your opinion, what might the trade-offs be? Thank you for hanging in here with your query. It is interesting. Um, to save space on the card and in storage. Lossless compression isn't hard, just do zip. Optimized lossless compression is harder. I don't know the Q2 well yet, and don't own one ... yet. But from what I see: The ability to completely turn off image review in all drive modes is the biggest priority for improvement that I see. I don't want to review the last pic I made immediately; I want to be ready for the next pic immediately. Second priority would be optically matched front-element wide and tele converter auxiliary lenses. I'd like the ability to get close to a 21mm lens and a 105mm lens field of view occasionally, the latter with about 10 Mpixel resolution. Edited May 23, 2019 by ramarren Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted May 23, 2019 Share #49 Posted May 23, 2019 19 minutes ago, ramarren said: Um, to save space on the card and in storage. Lossless compression isn't hard, just do zip. Optimized lossless compression is hard. I get only 1% space saving by zipping a .dng Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted May 23, 2019 Share #50 Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) 3 minutes ago, pico said: I get only 1% space saving by zipping a .dng That suggests that the .dng files are already losslessly compressed. Zipping an uncompressed DNG file from other cameras has resulted in 20-40% reduction in size. Edited May 23, 2019 by ramarren Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen_C Posted May 23, 2019 Share #51 Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, pico said: I get only 1% space saving by zipping a .dng While I have no doubt that is true, if you pass a Q2 DNG file through the Adobe DNG Converter using "Don't use lossy compression" the file size reduces by approximately one-third...so it can be done. Stephen Edited May 23, 2019 by Stephen_C Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted May 23, 2019 Share #52 Posted May 23, 2019 Just now, Stephen_C said: While I have no doubt that is true, if you pass a Q2 DNG file through the Adobe DNG Converter using "Don't use lossy compression" the file size reduces by approximatelt one-third...so it can be done. Stephen The Adobe DNG lossless compression is much much more efficient than zip compression. Adobe doesn't recommend it for in-camera use because it is very compute intensive and really requires a much higher level of compute capability. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted May 23, 2019 Share #53 Posted May 23, 2019 8 minutes ago, ramarren said: That suggests that the .dng files are already losslessly compressed. Yes, apparently jpeg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4peterse Posted May 23, 2019 Share #54 Posted May 23, 2019 What @ramarren and @Stephen_C say: the Leica DNG is not already JPEG, at least not the major part. It contains a lot of metadata and preview renderings (which are JPG), but can get removed (compressed) by Adobe's DNG converter (or in Lightroom directly). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marchyman Posted May 23, 2019 Share #55 Posted May 23, 2019 3 hours ago, ramarren said: The Adobe DNG lossless compression is much much more efficient than zip compression. Adobe doesn't recommend it for in-camera use because it is very compute intensive and really requires a much higher level of compute capability. Yet the images from my M 262 are compressed out of camera. Typical size is about 25 MB vs 40 MB for my Q. Saving metadata changes in Lightroom compresses the Q image down to the same 25 MB that the M delivers. I suspect the issue is one of speed. Burst mode frame rate will suffer when compression is used. My M burst rate is only 3 frames/sec; the Q "high" option is reported to be 10 frames/sec. This is not an issue for me (I keep my Q on the low setting) but may be an issue for others. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted May 23, 2019 Share #56 Posted May 23, 2019 3 hours ago, pico said: Yes, apparently jpeg JPEG compression is not lossless, unless you're taking about JPEG2000 ... but who uses that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DexL Posted May 24, 2019 Share #57 Posted May 24, 2019 15 hours ago, marchyman said: Yet the images from my M 262 are compressed out of camera. Typical size is about 25 MB vs 40 MB for my Q. Saving metadata changes in Lightroom compresses the Q image down to the same 25 MB that the M delivers. I suspect the issue is one of speed. Burst mode frame rate will suffer when compression is used. My M burst rate is only 3 frames/sec; the Q "high" option is reported to be 10 frames/sec. This is not an issue for me (I keep my Q on the low setting) but may be an issue for others. According to the Macfilos site, the issue is likely processor heat .. https://www.macfilos.com/2019/03/25/q-what-a-scorcher-heat-and-leicas-q2/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
benedictc Posted June 5, 2019 Share #58 Posted June 5, 2019 Touch shutter release Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iRandom Posted June 5, 2019 Share #59 Posted June 5, 2019 9 hours ago, benedictc said: Touch shutter release +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scroy Posted June 6, 2019 Share #60 Posted June 6, 2019 1)Video - Full Manual Mode 2)Video related - Enable Bluetooth to be used for accessories (microphone, headphones) 3) Improved Dynamic Range at high iso - minor nit 4) Agree with Mike (macfilios) on ability to lock buttons to avoid the wandering focus point problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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