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looking website or online store. I feel bad for anybody who's just bought a Leica Q2 because this
Q3 is a much better camera in almost every respect. I say almost because in the looks department not
too much has changed. Lok: it's the same um...huge it's really huge. A lot of time I thought this is a
compact camera then it is really huge. Kai: that's a fast lens it's a Summilux - it's not that big for
a Summilux. Lok: you can't change the lens it's just. Kai: the body is smaller than the M and the Q
is a popular body, it's great for people who don't really want to faff about with the manual focusing
of the M - you know, you have to use a rangefinder, old world-style focusing - this is just your point
and shoot; full frame point and shoot. Lok: but okay it sounds better when you say it's a smaller M. Kai: Yeah
that's not quite what I said, the Q is a posh fixed fast lens full frame point and shoe which
looks pretty gorgeous not something they really needs to change too much. It's funny when they first
showed a leaked photo on Leica rumors and people were going like "oh the grip texture is different"
"the bottom plate is slightly thinner" When they put the Q2 and the Q3 right next to each other
it's like what is the actual difference? But what they didn't show is the back of the camera because
this is all new. Before you ask no it doesn't flip vlogging style - how dare you even think that?
So it just does that for low down shooting and that for kind of top down. It's a three inch screen
slightly higher resolution than before. And one thing before it's got a nice clean round shape here, you
know just look at this side for example. Lok: Yeah, nice. Kai: it's nice, Leica-like. It's like
the M but it's kind of...well the screen doesn't fit flush with the camera, you can see it. You look on
the bottom, yeah, it sticks out a bit. I mean if you look at this that's a nice touch isn't it.
That's your diopter adjustment. Lok: oh so it pops out? Kai: Yeah then you adjust the diopter. It's kind of
surprising that they didn't make a screen flush isn't it? Even though most people are going to hold
it like this, you know just in case you want to do the whole tourist hold, if you do hold it on this side
these hard edges are not as comfortable as before.
Kind of that corner kind of digs into your palm, most likely won't be a problem for most people
besides the positives far outweighs the negative. I mean it introduces a new way of shooting
because this is not just for your serious Street photographers. Street photographers are going to
gravitate towards the M. This is for people who like taking lifestyle photos so that is handy to have
the tilt screen. It does have a nice solid clunk to it when you tilt it, it just kind
of snaps into place nicely. German engineered tilt screens. Literally like minutes of fun doing that.
And if you're a bit partial to photography on the street, the waist level view is a neat alternative
to taking photos and you still have the evf to turn to, which has also been tweaked with the Q3.
Anyway they have also put all of the buttons that were on the left hand side before onto the
right hand side so you can have just have a one-handed operation which kind of makes
sense with this kind of camera. And there's not many buttons on the side I mean they've actually
got rid of a button on this side. Before they had an FN button, Play and Menu as well
as this Directional Pad but now they've just got Play and Menu so essentially one
of the buttons has just gone up there. Those two are customisable buttons and then they've
got a customisable button in the middle of the d-pad here and then customisable button here
They make it nice and easy to customise the button rather than go through the menu system you just
press and hold the button. Lok: that makes so much sense. Kai: and then you just choose whatever it is you
like - that's the great thing about the Leica design is that it looks pretty simple, there's not many
buttons, it looks like oh it's such a basic camera but it's the thoughtfulness of making it work with
those few buttons so that you don't really have to faff about with all these different buttons and
dials, thinking about which which one should I press - I just want to take photos! Less boring stuff is put
in the way of you and the picture taking process and there's no camera more conducive to getting
that shot than the one right here. I think as I'm getting older I find myself liking this more
before it was all about yeah I want to use the M it's the purer camera with a manual
focus and stuff like that. You can manually focus on this it's got a tab here let's press that
and then you rotate it to manual focus because otherwise it's locked
it doesn't move. Lok: but yeah I mean it's not another button it's just the tab itself
Kai: a nice smooth move. Smooth certainly and the focusing tab makes for nice manual focusing if
a little stiff when new. But arguably you buy a camera like this to let it focus for you
because they've improved autofocus on this it's got phase detection autofocus, hybrid so it's
got contrast detection to make it snappier, quicker. Why hybrid? Well because contrast detection
is still good especially in lower light if you want it to be a bit more reliable so it
combines the reliability of contrast detection in certain lights with the speed of phase detection
sometimes contrast detection is good when your scene is contrasty and just picks up on that and
do make it focus but then phase detection you can't beat the speed of that so this is actually faster
than Q2 to focusing kind of goes without saying the Q3 does a great job of focusing on subjects
coming towards you - way to go Joe! So yeah not only does it have phase detection they've got face, eye, animal
etc etc and it uses a depth from defocus DFD it sounds a bit like Panasonic and actually
if you look at the screen it looks very much like a Panasonic you know
all those boxes. Lok: isn't it look exactly like the one I'm holding right now.
Kai: it's uncanny isn't it they didn't specifically say it's from Panasonic but who knows
Lok: pretty sure it's from Panasonic. Kai: but it works nice and quick it detects all the bodies in from the back it's
a bit like Panasonic isn't it and you can you can use the directional pad to choose between
the subjects. Look it doesn't matter when the AF system comes from all right what matters is that the Q3 auto
focus is better than before in terms of speed and is smarter with this subject detection
let's stop mentioning Panasonic okay. It's not like Panasonic has just slapped the innards of
one of their cameras into this, it is different it's a newer processor than the Q2 processor it's
got faster focusing it's got a faster burst rate it's got 15 FPS burst weight but also
60 megapixels. I don't think there's a Panasonic camera that does 60 megapixels that's high
resolution power right there lots of detail and that's good because this is a 28 millimeter lens
if you want a different focal length well you can't but you can crop it. You can crop
it inside the camera and it's got cool frame lines so when you press the digital
zoom you can still see what it's like at 28. just like the Leica M yeah and then this is 50
now when I say 60 megapixels you can choose between large medium or small DNGs: 60, 36 or
18 megapixels so you don't have to have the full 60 megapixel DNGs, which is nice is that there's a benefit to using each it's not just a matter of small medium large. The large for maximum
details, medium actually has a little bit more dynamic range and even a smaller 18 megapixels
gives good enough resolution for a reduced raw file size. DNG is quite handy, you just chuck it straight
into Adobe, don't have to wait for Aperture to update.
I can't emphasise enough how cool DNG raw files are, I shot raw here just put it straight into
current Adobe software and boom here we are. You also have to remember that when you go from 28
millimeters through the different digital zoom, digital crops, that it does lower the resolution.
um let's put a table here because at 75 millimeters you get
eight megapixel image down to three and then for 90 millimeters is six megapixels
maximum. The increased resolution has allowed the addition of the 90 millimeter crop. There is plenty
of megapixels to play with up until 50 millimeter with 18 megapixels. 75 and 90 are mostly fine for
viewing on screens but not great for printing big. The 60.3 megapixel backside illuminated CMOS
sensor, most likely the same one as the one from the M11, along with the newer than M11 processor
is a great combo. I'm pleasantly surprised that with low light shots you can still get usable results
up to ISO 25000 after that chroma noise really creeps in to poop on the party. And then you've
got features like perspective control from the M11, so really maybe it's not so bad to call
it a baby M11 after al,l but that won't be doing the Q3 Justice because the monster performance
makes this a camera that you can rely on to get you the shots you want to and with the addition of
the tilt screen it brings in a new dimension for slick and stealthy street photography it
feels like a more complete camera and we're not even done with the new features
another thing is it's got 8K video that's mad that's a total shock for me
8K video! I know right 8K so it's not just something inherited from a
current Panasonic hybrid camera. That button toggles between photo video
It crops in quite a lot. If you're filming in 8K or 4K DC or not it incurs a
1.2 times crop. The only resolution you won't get a crop in is 1080. And then it changes the menu
system of course. One thing is that if you've set the shutter speed for video you'll have to
remember to change it when you switch to stills. I forgot and ended up getting a shaky image like this.
Log settings okay L-Log inside. Oh okay you can change sharpness
you can put Log profile on it. Before you take a video if you do a digital zoom it still
shows the full 28 millimeter and then your frame line but when you hit record it just shows the
cropped image. Remember that those different focal lengths are digital crops, though even though that
the file sizes show the amount of pixels for an 8K file, the cropped images have been upscaled
back to 8K. But overall the videos look great the sound however...there's nowhere to put the microphone
no 3.5 millimeter input and definitely no headphones they do talk about adding USB-C
adapter to 3.5 millimeter a bit later with a firmware update but for now
no mic well you just got this one built-in mic
so you can try to see what it sounds like this is the built-in mic this is what it sounds like
I mean let's see see what it sounds like here and then we'll go out to the noisy Street in a minute
quite a different directivity setting also like now is towards the front so it's twist B so now
I set it to the back this is towards the back the internal mic actually sounds quite nice for
voices it's just that it will pick up a lot of Ambient sound along with the vocals the
USB-C adapter is not 100 ideal but a decent fix for audio especially as the Q3 puts out some excellent
quality video although it has to be said that the continuous Focus for video while accurate it
can sometimes be a little slow to change focus and you can't adjust the speed also there's noticeable
rolling shutter in 8K and 4K and while we're at it as it's the same lens as before it still has noticeable
pin cushion distortion but that can be easily corrected and those little things aren't enough
to spoil this camera for me, this is a Q that can finally stop me thinking about an M possibly it's
quicker with reliable Focus has all the focal lengths and more that you'd ever use on an M
and it does a whole lot more than the M. Is this the ideal one camera to carry with you everywhere to do
it all? For sure I think they're on to a winner with the Q3. if I could change anything [Music]
the grip all the way to the back this is nice let your thumb go that fits in there
it's just still slippery isn't it yeah it's not light no and of course you've got
neck straps so it's gonna be around your neck but well yeah if you want to do the
whole one-handed thing it still feels a bit precarious that you're gonna drop the camera
you should kind of put the grip around the back but you can get thumbs up grips now they're doing
three different colors they've got black they've got silver and then I think they've got brass
on that yeah so I'm not a big fan of thumb grips it's like they're trying to you know
find the whole idea of thumb grip is like it's a film mine lever your thumb rests on something
buy something with such smooth lines like this and you put a thumb grip on it but you know it's
up to you if you want to buy fun grip because it know comes in three different colors and
they've got different accessories with different color three different colorways as well because
also when you put the thumb grip I think your thumb is kind of here the buttons are here yeah
I mean of course you can still access it but it's just a bit why not make it easier to
equip in the first place exactly it's got a new battery yeah the battery is the battery is cool
it doesn't fall out
and show a clip of the hasselblads press it press it in but this is new the funny
thing is it does actually fit in the old Q2 fit I think you can just fit in your
Q2 but they're not going to say it's compatible with the Q2 in a minute but
it fits I've also they've got new hand grip for wireless charging to attach
the wireless charging pen grip and you can just put on any kind of wireless charger
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