[Leica] First pictures from my new Q2

[Robert Baron]

Don, I may have been a bit flip.  I certainly didn't mean to demean the
ability of anyone in this group - much less Brian - to understand a camera
control menu.  My problem with the multitude of menus and sub menus is
probably because I'm not shooting every day and can't remember what is
where; when I know what I want to do before I 'click' I can't quickly
retrieve the right way to do it.



On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 2:49 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I don't want to be argumentative.  Stemming from a conversation I had with
> a Pentax rep about the Pentax Zoom 105 camera from maybe 15-20 years ago.
> I pointed out that the camera gave the consumer way too many options for a
> P&S; those options were limiting sales because talented people like Brian
> looked at the menus and thought, MEH, that's too much for a camera I just
> want to turn on and take pictures.  The rep told me that all the features
> had regional preferences and that it cost too much to burn chips and alter
> menus for different regions and culture so we all got all of it.
>
> The new cameras are the same in that many capabilities can be incorporated
> for different photographic needs.  I just acquired a new A7R IV.  The menus
> might let you smoke a brisket while shooting video while storing stills on
> the second card.  I have found that if you start with what you want the
> camera for; you can browse the menu to find the settings that let you do
> those things.  So, video, don't care and that leaves half the menus
> forgotten.  Face recognition, you bet for my daughter and her husband.
> Register the face and the camera will recognize them and focus on their
> eyes, or if you care only the left or right eye.  Focus tracking can be set
> with the AFM function that defaults to single shot but will go into
> continuous focus when the main subject moves: Brian think of your new grand
> daughter when she is 2 1/2.  With computers and storage so inexpensive set
> the resolution up to the highest in RAW with no compression using the
> widest color gamut your camera will shoot(sometimes you want a JPEG for
> quick delivery)  To shorten this,  just work through the menus the first
> time with an internet connection close by to search for those terms and
> nomenclature that are unfamiliar to you and just go through the menu.
>
> Last, sometimes you just have to question someone else.  I complained to
> the Sony Rep that the definition of my new camera wasn't quite what I
> thought it should be when shutter speeds were close to 1/focal length.  He
> said that with long exposure noise reduction on that the camera would
> soften the images even when shutter speeds were fastish(say 1/30).  Just a
> quirk of the camera and when I turned it off the images became what i
> thought they should be.
>
> Most of us on this list have had and are still having very accomplished
> lives.  Exercise that brain a little more, don't fight the menu.  Learn
> what some of the smartest people in camera production have come up with
> that let capture the image in true Ted Grant "WOW, click, I don't believe I
> just saw that"
>
> all the best.
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 2:28 PM Robert Baron via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > My cataract surgery wasn't the problem; shoulder and other issues have
> made
> > light weight and autofocus necessities for me.
> >
> > Did you consider the Leica digital CL?
> >
> > If you want complicated you should consider the Sony or Olympus
> offerings.
> > But then you would need an extra gadget bag to carry the 12 year old who
> > would interpret the control menus for you......
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 1:06 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > After cataract surgery I was having real difficulty focusing my M. So I
> > > traded it in on a Q2, which (being vastly more complex) took me a while
> > > to learn how to use. These are the first pictures from it that I'm
> > > willing to show anyone.
> > >
> > > My granddaughter Nora Margaret Reid-Sarch lives in London. She and her
> > > parents arrived last night for a weeklong stay.
> > >
> > > I got this picture as soon as they walked in the door. That is Nora's
> > > Aunt Elizabeth holding her:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/family/51ada323-6b63-4ae2-947e-fce05b584e2f-o.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Mom Vanessa talks to Dad while Nora studies the boxes of food in the
> > > pantry:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/family/b784c4d0-6c04-41a9-b13e-f1ed33aee5a4-o.jpg.html
> > >
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