Leica Q 3 with Collapsable lens

[Gabapentin]

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I hope that one day, Leica will manufacture a Collapsable lens for the Leica Q, just like the old Summicron! the lens could expended and collapsed manually to save battery and the camera could easily fit in the back pocket!.

 

The Q 3 with the 45 mm lens is beautiful but would be so much better if the lens could collapse!!. 

 

David

[jaapv]

Maybe, but totally impossible without a complete redesign; the lens, shutter and sensor of all cameras in the Q series have been conceived as one integrated unit. The rest of the camera has been built around that unit.

[Aram Langhans]

Are there any collapsable lenses that include a shutter???  Seems it would be much more complex than just a lens.  And even the lens would have to have some mechanism to control the aperture.

[JNK100]

There would be no be no real.benfit to this and would only make dust ingress more likely.

 

[LocalHero1953]

Those collapsibles move the whole lens in and out, and in uncollapsed form have a good space between rear element and sensor/film. Here is a teardown of the Q2 which, though not entirely clear, shows little room between the rear element and the sensor. This (half way down the page) is the only section I have seen of the lens itself, and it looks like a schematic, not to scale - but there does not look like much space for the lens itself to compress.

Edited December 1, 2024 by LocalHero1953

[Ko.Fe.]

Collapsible lens works as dust pipe, mechanical or not. Dust on the sensor. 

[bobtodrick]

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I think we can safely put this request to bed…it just isn’t possible 😂

[JNK100]

On 12/1/2024 at 5:57 PM, bobtodrick said:

I think we can safely put this request to bed…it just isn’t possible 😂

Nor desirable in my view