First Walkabout With The Leica Q3 Was So Frustrating

[Jame5]

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Did my first street work with my new, shiny and exciting  Q3 yesterday, but what a palava, it seems every 6th photo taken, wasn't a photo at all, it was a video!  😠  This drove me nuts. Because while you can inadvertently slip into video mode instantly.  To recover means stopping the recording, and it takes an age to turn it's self back into a camera and moments are missed (by miles)

I'm assuming that some sort of contact with my body activates the stupid swipe to video gesture.  I've been taking photos in the street for years, keeping a low profile and never looking at my camera once, but yesterday, the second half of the shoot, before every discreet shot from the hip, there I was, squinting at the screen to see if I was in video mode.   I may as well have been shooting on my old Lubitel 

Please tell me how I can stop this happening.   Thanks 

 

 

 

[jaapv]

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