Showcasing Leica Q3 insane image abilities

[ianforber]

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@jaapv I fear you are condemned to saying this at least once a month!

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The Leica Q3 is available for pre-order at B&H Photo Video and Adorama

[Le Chef]

1 hour ago, ianforber said:

@jaapv I fear you are condemned to saying this at least once a month!

Or it needs to be a FAQ question and response.

[JimP]

On 6/14/2024 at 3:54 AM, jaapv said:

HCB once said-in another context-If I were young again I would shoot digital-in a time that the only digital cameras were a few clunky 2 MP affairs. He was a visionary who embraced the future. I’ll add an aphorism of my own: resolution is a bourgeois concept. If you cannot express your vision in eight million words, you cannot do so in sixty million either. 

Here Here... Who cares what camera, resolution, lens, sensor you use. It's the image. Same goes for cropping... if the final image says something and is meaningful to you & others then it does not matter.  As for HCB, St Ansel & others, they have their opinions and others have theirs. nothing is etched in stone.

[jonco]

After reading all that... "In a still photograph, you basically have two variables, where you stand, and when you press the shutter. That's all you have." Henry Wessel

[crons]

On 5/25/2024 at 2:56 AM, Al Brown said:

There is no 28mm "50mm equivalent crop". The perspective, lens construction and physics just does not allow it. There is just "28mm crop"

28mm at 50mm crop is identical to a 50mm lens. The only differences are the amount of pixels you throw away by cropping and possibly the background blur (depending on the subject distance).

Perspective is what makes objects that are near look big and far look small. This has nothing to do with the focal length but how close you are to your subject. 

Because you're standing in the same place the perspective will not change. 

I could just have a 28mm lens on my Leica M and call it a day, but that means I would have to press the preview frame lever every time I wanted to take a photo so I know where to stand. It would make precise composition in the sort of pictures I like to take a very slow pain in the ass process. I also want all the 40MP i paid for. 

Edited June 20, 2024 by crons