Q3 - Leica Looks

[David Wien]

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10 hours ago, M Street Photographer said:

Does your opinion also mean the use of optical filters?

I havent used optical filters, apart from polarizers, and I have used one of those for several years, as I tend to shoot wide angle. The 28mm of the Q3 is a "normal" focal length for me. With my Canon R6 I often use 16 or 12 mm.

But I reserve my right to change my mind about this if the technology in "looks" develops beyond where it is today. For today, I am with Jaapv on this subject. 😀

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[jaapv]

Optical filters are only useful on Monochrome cameras except pol and ND

[David Wien]

CORRECTION (sorry!): I havent used optical filters, apart from polarizers, and I have not used one of those for several years, as I tend to shoot wide angle. The 28mm of the Q3 is a "normal" focal length for me. With my Canon R6 I often use 16 or 12 mm.

Jaap is, of course, right about coloured lenses, but I am not a fan of B&W. I have ND filters for all my Canon lenses, as they came packaged with Pol and UV filters from Hoya, but havent yet found an opportunity to use them.

David

[M Street Photographer]

I don't know if Leica is reading this. What I'm missing is that I can't see in the Exif whether and if so which look was used. It would be helpful.

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10 hours ago, M Street Photographer said:

I don't know if Leica is reading this. What I'm missing is that I can't see in the Exif whether and if so which look was used. It would be helpful.

Most probably your EXIF viewer doesn't show all the tags. It's recorded as tag "Film Mode" under "Maker Notes".

[janf85]

Am 28.9.2023 um 23:33 schrieb fortitude:

Good news everyone. As an accident i found out a way to extract the profiles for Leica Looks available for the Q3 to then be used as a profile for any other software including Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom and yes, they work for my Q2 or any other camera i have perfectly even on raw files!

Being a hacker since a young age I thought to resurrect my reverse engineering skills and by accident bumped into this as my original reason for tinkering with the Leica Firmware was to build a feature that would allow me to directly sync files to my privately hosted NextCloud instance using the on-board Wi-Fi so I wouldnt have to rely on the rather flaky Leica FOTOS app.

However the bad news is that sharing this knowledge will most likely fall under some rather annoying reverse engineering laws, but trust me, it is entirely possible to do by anyone with little to no skill after i figured out another way of extracting this information via an alternative method to reversing the firmware files.

Hi fortitude,

could you please contact me pm? 

[jaapv]

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On 9/28/2023 at 11:33 PM, fortitude said:

Good news everyone. As an accident i found out a way to extract the profiles for Leica Looks available for the Q3 to then be used as a profile for any other software including Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom and yes, they work for my Q2 or any other camera i have perfectly even on raw files!

Being a hacker since a young age I thought to resurrect my reverse engineering skills and by accident bumped into this as my original reason for tinkering with the Leica Firmware was to build a feature that would allow me to directly sync files to my privately hosted NextCloud instance using the on-board Wi-Fi so I wouldnt have to rely on the rather flaky Leica FOTOS app.

However the bad news is that sharing this knowledge will most likely fall under some rather annoying reverse engineering laws, but trust me, it is entirely possible to do by anyone with little to no skill after i figured out another way of extracting this information via an alternative method to reversing the firmware files.

Rundown on German law on reverse engineering. 
 

https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2020/germany/vertraglicher-ausschluss-von-reverse-engineering