Q3 - Eye, Face, Body Detection

[clasami]

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Been using this mode for the first time at a recent event. The reception was like 60 people outisde in the garden. The image in the viewfinder almost looked like a an ego-shooter video game 🙂 So many frames dancing around bodies and faces - almost impossible to manage. Okay with two or three people in the frame. But not all usable for groups, I think.

[Voxen]

I hope they will update this with more discrete boxes, like semi transparent or something less visible.

[clasami]

vor 16 Minuten schrieb Voxen:

I hope they will update this with more discrete boxes, like semi transparent or something less visible.

Or even better: Have Face/Eye detect mode seperate from body detect. Limit distance at which a face is detected so that only people close to the camera are detected. 

[mholeica]

3 hours ago, clasami said:

Been using this mode for the first time at a recent event. The reception was like 60 people outisde in the garden. The image in the viewfinder almost looked like a an ego-shooter video game 🙂 So many frames dancing around bodies and faces - almost impossible to manage. Okay with two or three people in the frame. But not all usable for groups, I think.

Absolutely unusable or you shoot and hope. What did you do in the end? Field?

[Miltz]

The face and body detection on the Q3 is pretty awful. My Z6 from 2019 destroys it. It’s probably the only thing I don’t like so far. 

[clasami]

vor 1 Stunde schrieb mholeica:

Absolutely unusable or you shoot and hope. What did you do in the end? Field?

Switched back to AF-S, Spot.

[mholeica]

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1 hour ago, clasami said:

Switched back to AF-S, Spot.

Do you tap the screen to move the spot or use the buttons to move it? It’s so small I find that it so hard to use it to keep up with subjects. 

[clasami]

vor einer Stunde schrieb mholeica:

Do you tap the screen to move the spot or use the buttons to move it? It’s so small I find that it so hard to use it to keep up with subjects. 

No, don't use touch screen - and it is just too busy to control.

[geesbert]

I think the best solution would be something like Canon‘s option to reduce the possible AF modes to two or three and then switch between them by an f button. I have that with my r5, where I have one button to press to switch between face detection and spot AF, so that I could pick one face out of a group should I need to

[LocalHero1953]

It is one failing of Leica's interface: whether it's the M, CL, SL or Q, they do not allow direct actions to be assigned to a button, only menu options. So you can't toggle between two or more states with a button press (e.g. MF-AFs-iAF, Field-Face). Maybe its a deliberate choice, or maybe it's a fundamental limitation of their firmware systems, but it's wrong, IMO.

[hoolyproductions]

4 hours ago, LocalHero1953 said:

It is one failing of Leica's interface: whether it's the M, CL, SL or Q, they do not allow direct actions to be assigned to a button, only menu options. 

Totally agree, although there are some minor exceptions on the SL2: changing the view mode (histogram, focus peaking, etc, which I use a lot); Depth of Field Preview, magnification on/off, and APS-C mode (technically two button presses but you don't need to scroll or remove your eye from the EVF).

I do often need to switch between field and face focus, would be nice to see this also!