[Leica] Q2

[zoeica at mac.com (chris williams)]

Love my Q2. Sold my M6 TTL to fund the purchase last month.

Use it for work and personal use. I tried one out before COVID on a France 
trip in Dec 2019. I was hooked. 

Possible the best Leica (and the first Q) ever made IMO. 



Chris Williams
www.dcdocumentaryphotographers.com
www.zoeicaimages.net
504-231-6261



> On Jun 12, 2021, at 11:57 AM, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> 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
> 
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