Wide angle adopter for leica q ?

[Eugene Young]

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I love to shoot with leica q3 but sometimes missing wider angle of view such as 18mm or 21mm. Anyone there has wide angle adopter lens compatible with leica q? I tried chinese wide angle adopter and returned it cause I can’t focus with it.

[RoySmith]

I haven’t found one, but the panoramas, or stitching a few vertically oriented shots together carefully can look very good.

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[nariza7]

I ultimately gave up. Tried:
1) unbranded amazon ones (didnt make it much wider to justify the cost when they were over $100)
2) fuji one vignettes
3) cant mount the sony one that was designed for sony 28mm as it requires special threading. I actually bought a thread converting piece, but before that arrived, I tried just hand-holding the adapter against the leica Q3 lens, and it had some vignette issue or something (I can't recall). Just didnt work so I returned it.
4) Ricoh GW-4. Could not focus correctly except for super close macro shots

Edited February 29 by nariza7

[Wellsyboy]

For wider shots I would do panoramas set up on a tripod with nodal rail to get my really wide landscape shots (haven't tried it yet but used to do this with my Canon R5). Probably not an answer for people using compact style cameras for the convenience but given the lens quality this should produce fabulous images. Alternatively hand-held panoramas are easily achievable with post processing the way it is now. Just make sure to go fully manual and set your exposure to the brightest part of the image when/if you do.........

[Eugene Young]

Thank you ! I apppreciate the replies.For wide angle I have to use my I phone

[JTLeica]

I have a cheap solution for you.

M11 and 21mm Elmar. Only 10k and you are sorted.

[jankap]

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Here is another solution: https://rangefinderforum.com/threads/rx0-multi-camera-panoramic.4816174/#post-4867748

 

[JTLeica]

21 minutes ago, jankap said:

Here is another solution: https://rangefinderforum.com/threads/rx0-multi-camera-panoramic.4816174/#post-4867748

 

Love that, I like how creative some people are. Really cool!

[jankap]

With 2 pictures, one can achieve a good pano already.

Here on a trip with Benny Rebel in 2015. Benny is the one with the yellow hat. I found these 2 pictures last week, they could be combined. They pair as a pano excellently.

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Ricoh GXR M-mount. Could be with the Summicron R 50mm probably or perhaps the Canon LTM 28mm.

Edited February 29 by jankap

[JTLeica]

7 minutes ago, jankap said:

With 2 pictures, one can achieve a good pano already.

Here on a trip with Benny Rebel in 2015. I found these 2 pictures being related, last week. They combine as a pano excellently.

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Ricoh GXR M-mount. Could be with the Summicron 50mm or the Canon 28mm.

Yes I do a few few pano images, especially with bracketing for a HDR pan

[jankap]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb JTLeica:

Love that, I like how creative some people are. Really cool!

I don't like the barrel distortion. I could not change it in PS. This could be made better.😗

PS I mean the last pictures of the hotel floor in the RFF forum examples.

Edited February 29 by jankap

[JTLeica]

22 minutes ago, JTLeica said:

Yes I do a few few pano images, especially with bracketing for a HDR pan

If you try and take double the images for the same pan, overlapping a lot, then manually crop the left and right quarter of each image so you are left with a 6x2 portrait image, then merge, maybe most distortion will be gone, a faff though.

[jankap]

vor 16 Minuten schrieb JTLeica:

If you try and take double the images for the same pan, overlapping a lot, then manually crop the left and right quarter of each image so you are left with a 6x2 portrait image, then merge, maybe most distortion will be gone, a faff though.

Do you work with PhotoShop?

PhotoShop can do the merging for you.

[JTLeica]

4 minutes ago, jankap said:

Do you work with PhotoShop?

PhotoShop can do the merging for you.

Yes I just meant that cropping out the 'distortion' manually then auto blending in PS or LR or ACR is a bit of a faff. I only use photoshop, and find actually that the ACR is the better HDR/Panorama software, photoshop itself isnt actually that good.

[nariza7]

Yeah, I've pretty much stuck with a 2 camera system where one is a wide angle one for family video/selfies. Couldnt get the Q to take over wide angle shots. Please let me know if anyone finds a workaround for a wide angled Q though.

[LOWapproach]

I picked up a Ricoh GRIII and did not really care for it much, however I also picked the   Ricoh GW-4 Wide Angle Converter , all worked great, perfect glass on my Q, great sharpness and colors, let me know if you like to see samples! 

[Qwertynm]

I‘d be interested in samples. That is, if you meant the adapter on the Q. Previous reports I’ve read were not so favorable so I‘d be happy to see examples myself

[nariza7]

yeah, if you can show some samples. When I tried, it could not focus well unless it was switched to macro mode and doing closeups