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On 4/21/2021 at 7:59 AM, pilu said:

Anyone have news of the Q2M firmware?

Nope. I have been waiting for the update since I bought Q2M (~2 months ago) and discovered white pixels cluster issue, hoping the firmware update would fix it. March has passed, April has almost gone, too... No firmware updates. Alas!

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4 minutes ago, Faravahar said:

Good news. The LEICA Q2 MONOCHROM - FIRMWARE UPDATE 1.1 has been just released! Hopefully, it will fix the existing issues and will not introduce any new ones.

Do you have a URL?

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4 minutes ago, alksv said:

https://uk.leica-camera.com/content/download/205163/5445872/version/1/file/Q2M__11_.lfu

 

Installed without issues. Yet to test the pixel mapping.

Interestingly it is not on their download page:

https://uk.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-Q/Leica-Q2-Monochrom/Downloads

I am waiting until it appears, like the Q2's 3.1 update.

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2 hours ago, alksv said:

It is listed in the support section along with instructions and change log PDFs, not sure why they haven’t updated the Q2M landing site but there’s no real point in waiting for it. 

Thank you for the pointer. I installed it. It fixed the hot/dead pixels issue at higher ISO :).

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4 minutes ago, SrMi said:

Thank you for the pointer. I installed it. It fixed the hot/dead pixels issue at higher ISO :).

Excellent! Good news. They have also added a manual pixel mapping. Good addition. Unfortunately, the Zoom/Lock button still has a very limited list of options to assign. Would be great to map this button to any function you want.

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8 minutes ago, Faravahar said:

Excellent! Good news. They have also added a manual pixel mapping. Good addition. Unfortunately, the Zoom/Lock button still has a very limited list of options to assign. Would be great to map this button to any function you want.

I did run pixel mapping manually. Too bad there is still no standard BBF (as done in Q).

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3 hours ago, SrMi said:

I did run pixel mapping manually. Too bad there is still no standard BBF (as done in Q).

You can assign BBF to the Zoom/Lock button, which is great. However, having a freedom to assign any function to this button would be very beneficial! Don't understand why Leica didn't do it in the first place.

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1 hour ago, Faravahar said:

You can assign BBF to the Zoom/Lock button, which is great. However, having a freedom to assign any function to this button would be very beneficial! Don't understand why Leica didn't do it in the first place.

You can assign AF-L to Zoom/Lock button. However, standard BBF consists of triggering focus only with rear button and removing focusing from shutter. With Q2's implementation, focusing reverts to shutter after each shot. I am glad that the current subset of BBF is possible.

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1 hour ago, SrMi said:

You can assign AF-L to Zoom/Lock button. However, standard BBF consists of triggering focus only with rear button and removing focusing from shutter. With Q2's implementation, focusing reverts to shutter after each shot. I am glad that the current subset of BBF is possible.

Thanks, SrMi. My Q2M locks AF and AE combined ( AF-L + AE-L) without refocusing when a shutter release button is half-pressed. We may talk about different things here, though. From your post it looks like BBF is not fully implemented in Q2M, as with a proper BBF implementation, shutter release button should never trigger focus (even after each shot), as soon as the focusing mechanism has been decoupled from it.

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