Leica Q3 Expectations vs Reality Impressions?

[M11 for me]

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vor 14 Stunden schrieb Dr. G:

You bring up an interesting point about resolution and shutter speed.  I'm shooting at an event next week.  So far I've only used my Q3 for static subjects/landscapes, etc.  When shooting people that are moving around a little I usually go with 1/125 on my SL2-S with a 35mm lens - but it's only 24Mp.  What have you found to be the lower limit of your shutter speed in situations like (street) that with the Q3?

There is no change with Q3 here under the condition that you do not want to suddenly print much bigger than ever before or crop much more in post than before with your old SL2-S files.

[Olaf_ZG]

23 hours ago, jaapv said:

That distortion is not caused by the lens but by the camera tilted upwards. It works well compositionally.

If you like big legs yes. I wouldn’t call it flattering. A tighter lens would have been more graceful towards the subject, but then, the diehards won’t admit it. Digital crop rules.

[Herr Barnack]

On 6/29/2023 at 7:39 PM, bobtodrick said:

There isn’t a pro level camera introduced in the last 15 years that hasn’t needed firmware updates to fix issues found by users…there is no way a development team can foresee everything.

Leica users are the only ones that I have found to expect things to be perfect right out of the box.

Many of them don’t seem to have a grip on reality.

That is some good food for thought - particularly with all the lambasting of the M11 series that we have witnessed on this forum.

My plan is to keep my Q2 and work on acquiring an M11-P.  I seem to do my best work with an M camera, even with a 28mm mounted on it.  Not that I haven't created some great images with my Q2.

[FocusDot]

On 7/1/2023 at 10:32 PM, city of bristol said:

My problem with face detection is that the camera is deciding where to focus so i never use it.

I prefer single point AF then recompose if need be even with my olympus camera.

Why recompose? Use a single point AF there where you need it...

[Wellsyboy]

Love it but finding it difficult to get to grips with a shooting workflow - (using profiles and using function buttons)

[David Wien]

38 minutes ago, Wellsyboy said:

Love it but finding it difficult to get to grips with a shooting workflow - (using profiles and using function buttons)

I havent got into profiles yet; but yes, I find it is a steep learning curve coming from my Canon R6. I have to learn to use different settings to get the results I want! I am most impressed by the ability to retrieve 2EV of overcooked highlights and to use much wider apertures with great DoF...

David

[Le Chef]

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The beauty of Profiles is they give you a baseline for different types of photography. So I have: Landscape, Street, Portrait, All Manual, Macro/Nature. With them set it’s easy to go from one to another, simply by pushing the Profile icon on the rear screen.

If I want to step out of a Profile and change it e.g. raising ISO, then I can do so. I can return to the original Profile e.g. Street just by hitting the Profile icon and picking the Street profile again. If I want to make a permanent change to that profile I pick it, make the change and then “save as” that Profile.

In the end it saves a lot of faffing about hitting buttons usually scattered all over the camera. The Profiles system keeps everything from the physical controls to the UI neat and tidy.

[kkochheiser]

Exactly this!  Whenever I shift back to my Z8 or Zf I keep muttering “where are my @#$& profiles?”

 

Kent