Self timer keeps getting reset

[Subtilior]

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I am a new Q2 owner and have been trying to optimise the operation of the camera.  I have set up a profile for use on a tripod where I wish to use the "self timer" set to 2 sec.  However, whenever I switch off the camera, this setting gets undone and I have to reset it every time.   Being new to the system, I frequently forget to do this.  Is this how it is designed to work?

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1 hour ago, Subtilior said:

I am a new Q2 owner and have been trying to optimise the operation of the camera.  I have set up a profile for use on a tripod where I wish to use the "self timer" set to 2 sec.  However, whenever I switch off the camera, this setting gets undone and I have to reset it every time.   Being new to the system, I frequently forget to do this.  Is this how it is designed to work?

Yes, this is one of the rare occasions when the setting is not preserved when you power cycle the camera.

I guess Leica chose to do this so you don't switch your camera on for that once in a lifetime shot only to realise you left it in self-timer when you shut it off two weeks prior.

 

[CaliforniTexican]

I suffer the same issue.

I keep trying to include the 2 sec self-timer in my tripod profile but it seems to function independently. Even when I save the self-timer in the profile, it turns on or off based on whether I switch it on or off specifically, rather than as part of the profile.

All the online commentators talk abt how every function except a couple can be saved in the profiles. I have found nothing online or in the manual excluding the self-timer from that, but it certainly doesn’t function that way on my camera.