BillM6816 Posted October 18, 2020 Share #1 Posted October 18, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Good morning, all. New Leica Q2 owner here (pre-owned purchased from Adorama). I am primarily locked in to the Canon ecosystem with a 5D Mark III and RP mirrorless (and a bunch of Canon lenses). However, I wanted a full-frame sensor compact camera for gigs where I do a lot of walking and a wide-angle fixed focal length will suffice. So I got the Q2, which so far seems like a good idea, albeit at a very, very high price. My question is, how in the heck can I download images from the camera to my Macbook Pro? I have the Leica FOTOS app on my iPhone but that does me absolutely no good, since I don't do photo-editing on my iPhone, nor is it a simple matter to post images from my iPhone to Flickr to share with clients. I have an SD card reader connected to my Macbook, so I can handle the image transfer that way, but it seems odd that Leica doesn't offer a Wifi-enabled image transfer to laptop (unless there is a way of doing it that I have missed). This seems so weird when Canon (and Sony and Nikon and Fuji and every other camera manufacturer) make it so simple to transfer images to a laptop. Is this just one of those weird German things? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Le Chef Posted October 18, 2020 Share #2 Posted October 18, 2020 (edited) Simple: 1) Remove the card from the camera 2) insert card in MacBook card reader 3) import to whichever software you use to process images. it’s faster and safer than using WiFi which is slow and at times not reliable at transferring images. Edited October 18, 2020 by Le Chef 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted October 18, 2020 Share #3 Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, BillM6816 said: nor is it a simple matter to post images from my iPhone to Flickr to share with clients Unless you use the Flickr App. 1 hour ago, Le Chef said: Simple: 1) Remove the card from the camera 2) insert card in MacBook card reader 3) import to whichever software you use to process images. it’s faster and safer than using WiFi which is slow and at times not reliable at transferring images. +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillM6816 Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted October 19, 2020 19 hours ago, andybarton said: Unless you use the Flickr App. +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillM6816 Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share #5 Posted October 19, 2020 I do use the Flickr app for image transfer to clients. I find it to be the most affordable cloud storage option (albeit an often-bug-infested one). You are correct that removing the SD card from the camera and transferring via an SD card reader directly to the Macbook is secure and fast, so that's what I'm doing. It just seems weird that Leica made it relatively easy to use Wifi to download images to smartphones and tablets but not to laptops. Did their development team not conduct any user focus groups when putting all the bells and whistles on the Q in preparation for the launch of the Q2. Especially when there is no port to connect a cable directly to a USB port. See, I'm coming from the mindset of a longtime Canon user. Canon does these things quite well. There are quirks about Leica that I'm just now learning about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted October 19, 2020 Share #6 Posted October 19, 2020 I don't own a Leica with wifi, but I find it hard to believe that the camera's wifi will connect to iPhones or iPads, but not computers. That makes no sense at all as I thought that wifi was an open protocol;. There are beta testers for Leica on this forum, but they will all have been under NDAs, so cannot talk openly about their experiences if they were testing the Q. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
perb Posted October 19, 2020 Share #7 Posted October 19, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi, I don't know if it Wil work with other than M10 but you can always try: Regards Per Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeitz Posted October 19, 2020 Share #8 Posted October 19, 2020 Put the card in your MacBook using a card reader (preferably a Thunderbolt card reader). The card attaches (mounts) just like any other external disk drive. Open the disk icon and copy (highlight and drag /drop) the files to the folder where you want to keep them. Right click on the icon and select "eject" to disconnect the card / card reader. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie F. Posted October 19, 2020 Share #9 Posted October 19, 2020 I'm a lifetime Nikon DSLR user [currently using a D850]... and a first-time Leica Q2 user. I use a little Sony XQD/SD reader [USB-C] that I leave plugged in to one of my two monitors. Since you won't be using it all the time, you can plug/unplug it in your MacBook Pro when needed. I believe it cost me a whopping $18.00 [in the U.S.]. I'll be moving to Geneva early next year, and will take along a new MBP. That will be my preferred method. Easy-peasy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted October 19, 2020 Share #10 Posted October 19, 2020 If you are on an iPhone as well, you can import the images on your phone into Lightroom Mobile and they will appear on your Macbook in Lightroom CC through the Cloud. You can then edit them in LR on your Macbook and send them immediately from your iPhone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snooper Posted October 20, 2020 Share #11 Posted October 20, 2020 Welcome to the Leica world, where you'll find the best optics ever, to fit on some superb cameras, and where the Fotos app is just a big joke. Anything else then pulling out your SD card from the camera and import your photos on your MBP directly from the card will be a loss of time, unfortunately... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreasG Posted October 20, 2020 Share #12 Posted October 20, 2020 Try Leica Sync: https://transienteye.com/software/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhotoCruiser Posted October 24, 2020 Share #13 Posted October 24, 2020 I am used to remove the card and plug it in a card reader to move the photos to my PC. A highspeed cardreader is usually much faster than using a cable and much much faster than using WiFi. As the Q2 has no usb port the card must be removed and if the computer has no SD card slot, they are a cheap buy. Just check for highspeed readers; i use the Lexar Professional USB3 Dual-Slot reader and this one reads at about 90mb/sec Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewDD Posted October 24, 2020 Share #14 Posted October 24, 2020 At this very moment I am copying all the photos from a shoot off the SD card onto my laptop. It never occurred to me to do it any other way! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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