[Leica] Q2

[Jasse Chan]

Oh man.

Now you’ve really go me thinking I should try one out.

Are they weather sealed too?

Jasse

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 5:18 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Howard.  I've had my Q2 almost a year now.  My wife got it for me for my
> birthday/Christmas present for the rest of my life.  Well, that is what
> I told her.  She could not top that if she tried, so save the money.
>
> It is fabulous.  Bloody sharp and you are correct that with 47MP you
> have a lot of crop room.  If I wanted to think about it I could come up
> with a few gripes, but it is not worth the time. Did I mention how sharp
> it is?  Head to head with my Nikon D750 it blows it away, no matter what
> lens I have on it.  I have just about abandoned my Nikon glass for
> general shooting and mount my R-35-70/4 and the 28 even blows that one
> away.  Only use my Nikon if I need wider than 28 or with my 70-200 and
> of course for macro with my 100/2.8 APO attached.
>
> It is light(er), fast to use, simple to operate, has a nice (not the
> best) EVF, feels good in the hand and of course it has a red dot.  First
> Leica I have owned since my R8.  You will enjoy the heck out of it.
>
> Aram
>
> On 6/12/2021 8:57 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr wrote:
> > Looking for LUGgers’ opinions/experience with the Q2. And with Topaz
> Labs’ Gigapixel AI and Sharpen AI software.
> >
> > After decades of flogging a 35mm, then FF DSLR or mirrorless, on various
> outings and expeditions, I have finally come to the realization that the
> opportunity to use a lens longer than 50mm for a few percent of my shots,
> most of them not particularly memorable, isn’t worth the bulk and weight of
> a 24-70 or -85 zoom. I’ve gotten progressively unhappy with the lack of
> decent compact primes for my Sony mirrorless FF a7Rii, and the resultant
> need to tote the 24-70. My everyday-carry lens on an M body is 35mm and I’m
> much more apt to wish I had something shorter mounted than longer. I’m not
> above going out with the M240 or MM sporting the lovely 21-35 Vario-Elmarit
> R on an M adapter and EVF.
> >
> > So I’m going to Iceland (again) next week with my son for a
> circumnavigation of the island by the Ring Road, with side trips to the
> volcano and the Snaefjellsness Peninsula. This prospect really stimulated
> some analytical thinking, and I went ahead and ordered a Q2 from B&H. It
> arrived yesterday and I’m familiarizing myself with it. It’s a real gem,
> well advanced from my M240 in terms of being a thoroughly modern FF digital
> camera, and it really feels right to/for me. It’s going to replace my Sony
> a7Rii, Sony RX1-R, and a few lenses.
> >
> > My reasoning is that with a 28mm prime lens and a 47 MPx sensor, I can
> crop and enlarge to the equivalent of 90mm and have a 4.5 Mpx image file.
> I’ve found that Gigapixel and Sharpen can produce an image file 4x as large
> as the original (2x the pixel dimensions) that looks at least as good as a
> native image file made with a lens of 2x the FL. So the 4.5 Mpx crop can be
> up-res’d and sharpened to look like an 18 Mpx file taken with a 90 mm lens.
> And the 24 Mpx images from my late, lamented NEX-7 that I see as background
> on my 25” iMac’s 250-dpi, 15-Mpx screen every day remind me of how
> stunningly detailed 15 Mpx can look 2’ across the desk even at 13 x 21”.
> >
> > Any helpful advice or reports from Q users?
> >
> > Images to follow.
> >
> > —howard
>
> --
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
>
> “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
> would ever have dared dream.”
>     James D. Watson
>
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Jasse Chan

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