Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian, I would say "digital zoom" is just showing what you can crop, and as you said, with 47 MP sensor, you can crop a lot! Literally, you can crop 60%+ and have the same resolution as the M9 (!!!) Imagine Leica makes a dual-lens di-Elmar with this thing: a 24mm+60mm in one, like a TriElmar. That would cover most focal lengths On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 4:22 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > The Q2 is a very nice camera, but it has too many options. Basically > I've been trying to turn it into an M as much as I can. It doesn't just > have autofocus, it has 5 or 6 kinds of autofocus, including face > recognition. And then you have to decide whether you want it to focus > once, when you push the button halfway down, or whether you want it to > do focus tracking. I'm currently trying to figure out if I can have > separate control over focus lock and exposure lock (right now pressing > the shutter button halfway down locks both of them, and I don't always > want to have focus and exposure on the same spot). > > The smartphone app that works with it, "Leica Fotos", is awful beyond > comprehension. But you can use it, slowly and clumsily, to suck pictures > out of the camera into a smartphone. That's probably better than having > the camera itself know how to upload things to the web. > > It has a world-class lens, a state-of-the-art sensor, and about 100 > different configuration parameters. The default configuration seems to > be set for people who take different kinds of pictures than I do. Some > of them are about video, which I don't care about, and some of them > control what sort of JPEGs it makes (which I almost don't care about). > > But its 47 megapixel sensor means you can crop very very tightly and > still have more pixels remaining in the image than my M9 sensor could > give me. It has what they call "digital zoom", but it's basically just a > viewfinder trick, and I haven't been able to figure out any reason why I > should use it. > > Moving forward I will post more pictures of my friends and family taken > with the Q2, and you can decide for yourself whether it can be coaxed > into doing righteous things. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard http://imagecraft.com Beyond Arduino - When you're ready to get serious... JumpStart C Tools for Atmel AVR and Cortex-M, The Better Alternative