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Smogg
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1. Back Button Focus - same as Q since firmware 2.0, same as SL 2. Possibility to switch off unused screen in the cycle toggled by central button. For example: exclude video screen

Donzo98
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I would like the ability to change the size of the field for AF... like on the Q1.

jeff_m
jeff_m

Another vote for the ability to completely disable the video functions. 

acg69

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Μy 2 main recommendations are the following:

1. Ability to fill the LCD / EVF with the entire digitally-zoomed picture (35, 50, 75mm), instead of having white frame lines within an always-28mm field of view. (copy/paste from another user). It would work wonders for the usability of this feature, especially as you crop more and more. The way it is implemented, it is extremely hard to compose at 50 mm or more.

2. I use spot metering and like to lock the exposure. On most cameras there is a toggle to do this: pressing and releasing locks the exposure at the selected point. Usually this button in at the back, where the nondescript digital zoom button is on the Q2. So I transferred digital zoom selection to the Fn button and assigned AEL to the button in the back. BUT, I have to keep it pressed in order to lock the exposure. It should / could lock the exposure just with pressing it once and releasing. As it is (especially without a handgrip) it is very hard to use as described.

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On 5/22/2019 at 12:52 PM, ESS said:

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)

I agree with you on Option One.  I would use this sometimes.  Not critical, but it would be nice.

For option two, yes you can turn off exposure preview mode for studio flash.  The second option on page 3 of the menu is “Exposure Preview”.  Just change this from PASM to PAS and you will be good to go in manual mode.  The viewfinder will be bright regardless of the aperture and shutter speed selected.

I have a few other “asks” for firmware/software changes.  I would want FOTOS to actually be reliable (instead of repeatedly failing to connect) and for the geotagging feature to work properly.  In fact, I’d like the geotagging to go a step farther than the manual indicates and not require Fotos be used to take the image.  As long as Bluetooth is turned on and my phone is in range, I’d like every photo I take to include a geo tag.  I believe that”s how the Fuji GFX works.  

Finally, I’d like Leica to stop protecting us against long exposure noise reduction and thermal noise from long exposures.  Let the camera go a full two minutes at ANY ISO, and let me choose whether or not I want LENR.  There are times when this just makes more sense to do in post using a single (or a stack of) dark frames.  Prevents gaps in star trails and allows me to spend more time under dark skies capturing images rather than darks.  I’ll even sign a waiver promising never to release a >1s exposure into the wild without some form of dark subtraction.  I just don’t want to be forced to capture that dark at what may be an inopportune time.  And, yes, I know darks should be taken at the same temperature as lights which is why they force the issue.  Don’t care.  I need more flexibility for night photography.  

That’s it for me so far.  It’s a solid upgrade on the original Q.

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Wireman

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I've had mine a week and the thing I've been most irked about is this. Any changes you make to the default (out-of-the-box) profile survive a power cycle (which is good), but not a return trip to any other user profile.

So, if you - for example - change the AF to field, the zoom button to AEL, the metering to spot and make a couple of tweaks to the jpg sat/sharpness, it would be a good idea to save it to a user profile there and then. Because if you flip to another profile and back, boom, factory mode. You've lost all the settings you made to default.

To be fair, the same goes for any profile - tweaks are not preserved if you change profiles without saving. But at least those are ones you chose and saved at some point.

In short, I guess: Default profile is a little too "point & shoot" for my tastes. It'd be nice to have the option to lock the tweaks I make to it without having to burn an extra profile.

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Siriusone59

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3 hours ago, Wireman said:

I've had mine a week and the thing I've been most irked about is this. Any changes you make to the default (out-of-the-box) profile survive a power cycle (which is good), but not a return trip to any other user profile.

So, if you - for example - change the AF to field, the zoom button to AEL, the metering to spot and make a couple of tweaks to the jpg sat/sharpness, it would be a good idea to save it to a user profile there and then. Because if you flip to another profile and back, boom, factory mode. You've lost all the settings you made to default.

To be fair, the same goes for any profile - tweaks are not preserved if you change profiles without saving. But at least those are ones you chose and saved at some point.

In short, I guess: Default profile is a little too "point & shoot" for my tastes. It'd be nice to have the option to lock the tweaks I make to it without having to burn an extra profile.

I found that a bit annoying when I first acquired my Q.  After a while and with constant tweaking and re-saving my profiles to get what I wanted, I decided that they were just a good starting point for whatever shooting I planned to do. 

I guess what I'm trying to say is that profile use will get better as you use them more and name them something that makes sense to you. I've probably tweaked my B&W profile a dozen times already and my Scenic profile even more.

 

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Wireman

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5 hours ago, Siriusone59 said:

...profile use will get better as you use them more...

Yep. Looks like Default will become the "hand the camera to someone else" mode and I'll live in User 1.

The other thing is the aperture and focus rings are a tad too close together, but a firmware fix for that ain't coming any time soon. 🙄

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#1 For me would be the ability to turn off the screen and EVF completely. This is great for street photography when you are composing through an attached viewfinder. The battery lasts forever. Sony and the Ricoh GR have this option. Also need the ability to turn off power save completely. 

-Option to select a point and magnify in manual focus

-Pinpoint AF with magnify focus confirm option. My S1 has this feature and it's useful when trying to ensure critical focus. 

-Option to view crop modes in full screen instead of frame lines

-Focus point size change option

-Touch and release shutter

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ralphh

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I love the Q2.  I feel like I'll never need another camera - I felt that about the M240 too and only sold it because I had to, but I feel it even more strongly about the Q2. 

Perhaps because of that I have a long list of things I'd like added/fixed.

My list would be:

  • Compressed DNG (like Leica M)
  • Remapable set button.  Especially to include an option to jump focus point back to center.
  • A bit more snappy operation all round (quite often done in 2.0 firmware it seems and the Q2 feels sluggish at times)
  • Make the the 1/f auto ISO settings include the crop factor.  I know the pixels themselves are no more smeared with cropping in but it does matter more in the final print.
  • Option to have less focus points available;  the Fuji X-Pro2 / X-T2 has this and it's very useful; I'd happy just have 9 or 15 covering the whole frame so I can just get close enough with the buttons then a small amount of focus and recompose rather than having to nudge it 50 times in tiny increments to get it to the edge of the screen on point mode
  • Ability to change at what shutter speed the OIS kicks in
  • If possible reduce the occasional shutter lag associated with the OIS kicking in
  • EVF extended mode plays to the rear screen but still sends does image auto-review to the EVF which is annoying.  Would be great to have the reviews to the rear screen too (optionally).  This would mean at the end of a burst you could glance down at the rear of the camera rather than waiting for what feels like forever for the buffer to clear.  I really don't like having auto-review images on the same screen as I'm composing on.  I much prefer how auto-review works on a normal mirrored DSLR where viewfinder is always for shooting and all image playback is to rear.  I don't actually use auto-review on any other camera but with the file size of the Q2, it seems to take forever for the buffer to flush so I can see me having this on as a quick way to see the last few images.
  • On a related point, would be nice if the play button could read the buffer as well as the card. Then the point above would be moot for me.
  • An on screen depth of field would be nice (like on Fuji). Engraved marking are nice but they don't help much in AF.
  • Show cropped version in DNG playback like it does in DNG+jpeg (just add it as an option).  I would just shoot DNG+jpeg but that makes buffer-clearing even slower :<
  • Focus point size change option
  • Option to change the sensitivity of the focus assist edge detection (think the M has this).  It rarely picks up facial details at the moment.
  • Ability to change focus point colour; a b&w focus cross can be lost in b&w mode, esp on the rear screen.  Blue would be really easy to find 
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  • Bring back Touch AF + Release function that existed on Q.  It was my favorite way to shoot and was incredibly intuitive if you needed to hand off the camera to a family member or friend.  No idea why they omitted this and felt like a step backward.  
  • Faster WiFi transfer to FOTOS app please.  Sony camera transfers at about 5x speed of Leica for 3k less money, even if you take file size into consideration.  
  • Ability to delete files by “All files shot on this date”.   Deleting files on this camera is an absolute chore and sometimes you don’t want to format the card but need to free up a lot of space quickly.  
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ralphh

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Already put up quite a list, but here's an extra couple;

  • option to zoom rather than put up framelines.  It's fine on 35mm and even 50, but by the time you get to 75mm crop it's really hard to see what you're doing
  • would be nice to have square crop options as well as 3:2
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