[Leica] My Q3 arrived! The first batch of photos looks pretty good to me.

[Douglas Barry]

Yes, Jeff, looking at your WFMU images, it seems to be a very impressive 
camera, and it would certainly be nice to have a new Leica to join my 
film ones.

Sadly, SWMBO is a harsh ruler and, despite my buttery blandishments, it 
would be hard to impress upon her my urgent need to have a Q3 with the 
large* amount of additional moolah necessary to slake what she would 
deem an utterly frivolous want on my part. After all, she would likely 
posit that all cameras are the same, and hadn't I said that I was going 
to get a new Fuji thing  - a X100v or something -  at the beginning of 
the year, only to stall as it transpired there were none available on 
the Island of Saints and Scholars due to TikTok talk and hype over it.

Hence, things are looking grim on the new Leica front. Mind you, 
crafting an argument of justification for GAS excesses might a useful 
challenge for Chat GPT

Douglas
*she'd call it a shockingly large amount as I told her the price of the 
Fuji, and figures just burn into that woman's head.

On 24/07/2023 09:46, Jeff Moore wrote:
> This is my first Q-family camera.  I'd tried borrowing a first-gen Q, and
> for some reason I didn't fall in love sufficiently to try to scrape
> together the ticket for one of my own.  I'd been eyeing the Q2 generation,
> but around the time I got serious about Q2s, the Q3 rumors had solidified
> to the point that I figured I should wait for one of those.
>
> So I waited.  And waited.  And the Q3 was indeed announced, and I placed an
> order.  Then I waited some more.  And here it is!
>
> I got together for Friday beverages with some friends and acquaintances
> from WFMU <https://wfmu.org/>, and we hung out in the dimly lit Volunteer
> Room.  Some of these (in little light, and at up to EI 6400) please me!
>
> The noise patterns aren't displeasing or excessive for the ISOs, colors are
> staying better at high ISOs than I'd had to live with from some
> earlier-generation cameras, the camera is nailing good autofocus on
> people's eyes pretty often, and the little beast is a nice form factor.  As
> everybody already knows about Qs.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/53067596819/in/album-72157633241623661/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/53067596169/in/album-72157633241623661/lightbox/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/53067407371/in/album-72157633241623661/
>
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