Review of Leica Q After 4 Years and 500,000+ Photos
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Looking at my Leica Q after 4 years and 500,000 photos.
Followup video with sample photos and answers to viewer questions: • I Took 500,000+ Photos...
Skip ahead to just the sample photos: • I Took 500,000+ Photos...
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Normally I see these go almost brand new with couple of thousand exposures max. Good to see that someone actually uses their Leica. Thanks
As a new Q owner - the best video of the month! ;) Great to see a good used Q still working...
This was my main camera I used in 2019 on an 8 month trip across Asia. Such an unbelievable camera. I ended up selling it during the mist of the lockdown last year to experiment with a Leica m6 camera (the Q is like a gateway drug to all things Leica... haha). I hope to pick up a Q2 sometime in the future when the world gets "back to normal" it's the perfect camera to document everyday life/travel. Glad to see someone use there camera so much!
I just inherited one of these cameras and look forward to learning how to be fluent with it. Seems like it'll take a year of use to get to used to the depth of flexibility it has. But your testament is very validating to this gem of a camera.
Good to see how durable these epic camera's are - a good advert for Leica and their renowned build quality.
I am tempted by one of these, but my credit card just wont stretch that far at the moment. A small thing to do with buying a campervan and an M1 macbook to replace my 8 year old macbook that failed.
Very comprehensive and helpful review - easily the best I've seen of this camera (and there are lots of them out there!!)
I have seen lots of Q videos. This is the best.
Thank you for your review! I‘d love to see some of your favourite shots taken with your Leica Q. I‘m more interested in your best shots and not the most famous news site that published your work. Thanks, again!
Thanks, Fred! I'm planning to do a video sharing more sample pics. Here's one that I love, taken of a place that I loved to visit (Bouchon Bistro in Beverly Hills) which is unfortunately now closed: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/on-the-outdoor-patio-of-bar-bouchon-part-of-the-bouchon-news-photo/544528782?adppopup=true
I'm also really proud of some of my work documenting the early days of the pandemic. This one captures the visual concept well, I think, and the Q's bokeh (at F1.7) means that you can't distinguish which restaurant this is. In that way, it can be used to generally depict the concept of a "closed restaurant" (and has been a lot) www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/chairs-are-wrapped-in-caution-tape-at-a-restuarant-in-news-photo/1212992726?adppopup=true
And I'm proud of the self portrait in this article, which captured a specific, challenging moment in time for my own work: thebolditalic.com/the-eerie-job-of-photographing-san-franciscos-empty-streets-5f4fc58041ca
Oh, and this one, which makes use of the Leica's light sensitivity and fast lens for frozen motion at night: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/woman-looks-over-her-shoulder-as-she-walks-past-the-facade-news-photo/1188944249?adppopup=true
More in this followup video, too: ua-cam.com/video/TNNqstzK0gM/v-deo.html
I purchased the Leica Q-P used but in mint condition last summer. It is the most fun I’ve had while using a camera. I bring it along with me everywhere now.
Good to see that thumbs up grip gets brassy with age. Mine is only starting to reveal that beautiful look.
This is the best overview and review of the camera I’ve seen. Great work.
Great video. Only thing I take issue with is the lens cap. Everyone I know who has a Q or Q2 has problems with this constantly falling off! There are a lot of third party lens caps for this as the one that comes with the camera is so bad. (Alternatively, I just use the lens hood and a UV filter for lens protection. Never use a cap at all after all the frustrations with the one that comes with the camera)
Yeah mine fell off on a beach in Maui and I never bothered to replace it
Cool video of a camera with lots of story to it… just got a Q2 Reporter 2 months ago and love it!! Best camera imo
Thank you for your video. Very good full and concise overview. I just got the Q2. Good to see what to expect after some years of use.
Wow ! Half a million exposures. It really is a good unit!. I also like the way this professional photographer does utilise auto and aperture priority the most.
Thanks for sharing
Oh yes, a very well used camera, a real review. Thanks, i’ve been try to justify buying this camera.🤔
500,000 photos in fours years, makes 125.000 photos/year, or 342 photos a day or 14 photos every single hour or one photo every four minutes. Brave done!
Thanks! The reality is that it's usually not a constant output--especially pre pandemic I would do shoots that could span a few days and would involve lots of intensive photo taking.
@@DIYLifeTechwell, if you were a photo taking robot...😂
Damn this thing looks sooo good used!
I really wanted to get your experience with the Camera but you just going through settings and modes like anyone would do who gets the camera in hand for the first time. For me the continuous mode isn't working at all when I shooting a wedding. So many shots are slightly out of focus even if I use a high shutter speed, this doesn't happen in the S setting. Did you experience anything like it?
Nice to see someone using his camera what she is made for...
Thanks! I shared a bunch of sample photos in this followup video too: ua-cam.com/video/TNNqstzK0gM/v-deo.html
There is absolutely no info about durability of the camera, where it's been, what it's gone thru during the 4 years of use. It's all about basic Q spec, functionality, and menu that you can find anywhere else, and no, not even a few samples of the 500k+ photos.
17:43 - The Q "launched the genre in a lot of ways..." Not quite. The Sony RX1 preceded it by nearly two years. I shoot both, and the Sony is also a superb camera. Nice review of your Q though.
Agreed. The Q was not early in the mirrorless game.
500k shots is amazing. Other than sensor cleaning, what other repairs has Leica performed as part of the yearly service?
strong traces of use
adjust sensor
clean sensor
adjust autofocus
check, adjust, clean
Leder LEICA Q (Typ116), schwarz 30.00
Sealing, sensor
^^ Notes from the Leica tech from my last service
@@DIYLifeTech Where do you send your Leica Q for service?
@@petebeeson I went through my San Francisco Leica store, which sent the camera to New Jersey. If it's really bad, they'll send it back to Wetzlar.
I can not understand why people do not believe you re shooting 500.000 pictures! As a wedding photographer I have around 4-8k pictures after one wedding - and normally I have 30-45 weddings in a years - so 500.000 pictures is easy to reach, when you are working professional.
Exactly! A four hour shoot can easily yield thousands of photos. Do one weekly (as I did in 2016 through the pandemic) and add in additional shooting for travel, etc and you’re easily there.
Why take so many? No customer is ever going to go through all of those. Not even once.
@@richardswinscoe5764haha of course - my work is to choose the good ones. No costumer will do this work…
Nice video, looks like it might need a CLA from Leica Customer Care tho haha.
Cleanliness doesn’t mean anything, images do
@@nickfanzo I’d say the eyepiece falling off could use some love. Plus after a ton of use dust and such could get stuck inside the camera, get to the sensor and affect image quality.
These are some cameras that you can use like a tank, and gift it to your son/daughter/friend when u grow old/die
Hi! Have you had any problem with evf? In my Leica q it suddenly shows what looks like a semi transparent swipe on the left side of my viewfinder.. thanks!
Hello! Great video. Can you share where I can get the last Q firmware updated?
This guy did a good Leica video, the first time I’ve seen the Q used in a hardcore photo journalism environment rather than being nursed with over-extreme care around the necks of effeminate fashion junkie types.
But Jeez, did he take a breath? He must have an overactive whatchamacallit disorder 😂. I imagine everything he owns is beat-up within an inch of its life. Probably has a blood stained car that he used to escape angry death squads run by some self-styles dictator or warlord in the middle of some central American jungle like James Woods in the classic movie - El Salvador😂 😂
You've described my life perfectly!
What cold shoot some grip do you have? Love the patina on it.
How do you manage 342 shots / day on average for 4 years! Crazy.
It's not evenly distributed. I might do a multi-day shoot (especially back when I was traveling) where I'll take 5,000 or more in a day.
I take on average 100 to 150 a day for the last 10 years and i use my cameras for fun only presently q2
@@DIYLifeTech 5000 in a day? My goodness, I take 5000 in a year when I’m on form, but positively geriatric compared to your hyperactivity.
Love the patina on your thumb stud where did you get that from?
Match Technical
I womder, do you use the hood?if not does it has effect with flare?
Did ypu hve any dust on the sensor? I heard leica q is not weather sealed and have lots of dust and water damage issues and people cover the mic holes to rpevent that. And apparently you didnt tape the holes and have some dust on camera surface. Wonder if that happened to you
I love my q. Thanks for the video.
nice im really trying to get one now, how does that work for the shutter count ? do you have to get the shutter replaced like dslrs?
Its a leaf shutter, its almost industructable. Dslrs have a lot of heavy moving parts, which are likely to fail. This one doesnt
Crikey, for someone that makes so many random YT review videos, I'm really amazed how you have time to fit in your professional photo-journalism and make 500,000 images in 4 years! Well done, lucky you shoot Leica!! How do you charge your batteries? My Q batteries take forever to charge, and I'm lucky if I get a couple hundred from each charge. On the days you shoot 5000 images, that must be quite challenging.
Haha thanks. I admit that I was taking more photos pre-pandemic, when I could go out and do active shoots. I have several batteries (not ideal at $90 a pop!) and a charger, and I carry a few with me. I also conserve battery by shooting with the screen off and using the EVF, which is better in sunlight anyway.
I think you'll find that Fujifilm launched the mirrorless revolution, Leica are Johnny Comelately to the party.
So, after took 500,000 photos, where are they??
Klasse, tolles Review. besten Dank.
It’s nice to see a well used camera, especially a Leica. Is there any major work that Leica has done to it after 500,000 clicks or was it routine cleaning etc?
Here's a followup video where I share more about the specific services I had done ua-cam.com/video/TNNqstzK0gM/v-deo.html
I just watched this video in an Amazon review!?!? What were the chances 😂
1/2 million shots over 4 years!! Even if I had a vid camera strapped to my face permanently on 24/7 I’d fail to exceed that 😂 reminds me of a guy who couldn’t remember vacations, gigs, etc… and now sleeps with 1 arm stretched out above his head because of his pic taking obsession 😂
Thanks! For a pro 500k photos really isn't too many. From 500k photos I probably ended up with about 5k published photos. That's not a bad ratio.
@@DIYLifeTech I’m only teasing 😉, I know you’re a pro. Some guys love the romance of the photojournalist wielding the battered gear covered in ‘forget me not scars from memorable far flung assignments, and the drinking stories to go with it, me too. I was just making a sorry attempt to describe the impact of using up a camera the same way on the life, health, and well-being on a non-pros life, no more 🤣🙏🏽
There is simply not enough time to do 5,000 shots a day with a Leica Q - I don't buy that, I want to believe it , but it is virtually impossible unless being forced under extreme conditions - - - > = 15 shots per minute for 6 hours straight, no time to eat a meal or have a drink, do post production, make appointments, reviewing the material, relay the results to your customers who hire you, sleep and interact socially IRL or via the internet..... Considering you take time to prepare a shoot, and each shot actually, unless you are on burst a (sports?) lot, there is just no way in freakin h-e-l-l-o to pull off that number.
Nice job all I need to know simple put
love mine either
Gotta love all the comments from people who don't shoot professionally, don't have their photos posted, and don't understand why this video was made... Coming forward with the same two utterly baseless critiques over and over. Good ol UA-cam.
I shoot Leica m for film and Fuji for digital. Would you buy this in 2021?
I'd get the Leica Q2 in 2021. I use the R7 for film and it's a great camera too.
Why not? Just ordered mine. Q2 is too expensive for “everyday” camera that you can loose/drop in a water/spoil under the rain in one moment, and original Q is twice cheaper so, money wise, you can think you have a spare one in case of accident :-)
This equivalent to take 10 rolls of film (36 exposures) every day for over 4 years, it survives without service, are you sure?
As I say in the video, I get it serviced by Leica.
Isn’t there to much distortion for portrait photos?
No, just center the subject, leave about 1/3 of the frame around them, and crop into it. You really only get distortion at the edges.
Ken Rockwell says that he gets better colours out of his iPhone🤷♂️, I never know when to take him seriously??
You need to develop photos from the Q in Lightroom for them to look good. Too many people look at JPGs right out of the camera and think it sucks. Colors are far, far better than an iPhone
If i buy one ill never protect it, looks so good used!
The one issue is that it's not weather sealed. So be careful around rain or sand.
Don’t go pro, if that’s not your business. Look after your equipment, only pros can afford to go pro and beat up their gear like this.
@@Pulsonar Thats why it's my profession :)
@@its2amandstillonyoutube542
There’s a big difference between bashing and deliberately abusing expensive sensitive electronic equipment about just for vanity sake ‘because it looks so good used’, and using the equipment sensibly and letting it age naturally and beautifully over time. I know which category sounds professional and respectful of tools of the trade knowing it will serve them well without maintenance concerns and it certainly isn’t the first example.
Dang bro ... you beat your cameras up. Are you a covering wars?
Tech wars :) I mostly cover Silicon Valley
Very cool - So what's next?
Maybe a Q2? :)
500,000 photos? How many good ones?
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350 foto al giorno???
Cómo está tan desgastada, se ha quitado la pintura. La llevas arrastrando por el suelo?
I did not see any sample pictures.
What publications do you read? I'll try to send some examples of when they've used my Leica q photos.
Here's a followup video with a bunch of sample photos ua-cam.com/video/TNNqstzK0gM/v-deo.html
500.000 pictures in 4 years = 340 pictures each day...
"We don't recognize the good hunter by the number of shots" said my grandma to my grandpa.
It’s not evenly distributed. Most professionals out on a shoot take thousands of photos in a few hours. Then there are days where I might only take a few.
Interesting way to tell us you don't shoot professionally.
@@SourPlanet Actually, a professional doesn't use un Q3 as his main body.
If you were a professional, you'd have known this.
@@marc6652 Ah yes, move those goal posts. I'm so curious as to the myriad of ways you want to critique this random person on UA-cam who makes their living with a camera.
Meanwhile your account is empty and you responded to this comment within minutes. I'm getting super pro vibes from you lmao.
@@SourPlanet You're so funny !
"you responded to this comment within minutes. I'm getting super pro vibes from you lmao."
So you did.
Based on your comments, it seems that you need to be a so called pro to comment a video. To think by yourself.
I'm certainly wrong as I don't think like you.
I'm truly sorry if I have delivered an opinion that was different from yours.
I hope you will forgive me.
Fujifilmxgt20😊
😅 17:13
How many dust spots do you have now in each photo due to sensor dust?
Not too many now, because I got the camera serviced last year and they sealed the sensor better. But before that, hundreds!
@@DIYLifeTech they seal the camera better if we send it for service? Is that an add-on thing?
@@DIYLifeTech hi I also want to know about this. You can send it to leica and have better dust sealing? how much did it cost you? Thank you in advance!
500k Shutter actuations and the camera still works?! That is seriously impressive! That is IF he really has taken 500k shots..!?
Remember that the Q has both a physical and electronic shutter. Especially if you're shooting in sun and wide open, as I do, most of your actuations will be electronic and not physical, which means the shutter lasts longer.
@@DIYLifeTech Thanks for clarification! I actually did not know about this!!!
Any problem with dust getting into the sensor ?
Mirrorless revolution started with M43 with Panasonic the GF1 in 2009. If you're talking fixed lens full-frame point and shoot then maybe. Also "Leica makes the best lens in the world" is all subjective. There are lenses that are way sharper, less distortion etc. Just say you prefer the "Leica look". Even though the lens is labeled as a Summilux, it's closer to a Summicron if you round up. 😉
I think the best lens in the world that he mentioned is regarding the "Leica Look". That creamy out of focus "roundness" background that is hard to see in other brands. Im not really a Leica user. But, I have shot with Leicas (borrowed from a colleague) and I can tell you - there is something about the bokeh and the "look" of the image that I dont get from my usual Nikon or Sony. Don't know about others but sharpness is not be all and end all for me. Even Sigma lenses can shoot sharp images. Instead, I always searching for that kind of "look" in images when shooting with particular brand.
Why the snide digs? save your energy and go take some photos Mr Winkyface
Thanks Ben!
C 15:06
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😅 15:50 15:51 😢
averaging 350 shots a day for 4 years is going some ! Pity you don't show any of your work ?
Here's an example of a photo I took on my Leica Q in the NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/technology/doordash-cavier-deal.html
Tell me what news sources you read, and I'll post links to my Leica Q photos published there :)
@@DIYLifeTech most comments are asking about your pictures and you talk about your photo journalism work for all major publications and then the one picture you share is a stock photo of a sign..
Here's a followup video with more sample photos: ua-cam.com/video/TNNqstzK0gM/v-deo.html
@@gilscharf Here's a followup video with more sample photos: ua-cam.com/video/TNNqstzK0gM/v-deo.html
Not to be a nitpicker, but I have to nitpick here. The Q is not a mirrorless camera in the accepted sense. "Mirrorless" usually refers to an interchangeable lens camera that does not use a mirror and prism mechanism like a DSLR. Your usage of the term implies that a smartphone is a mirrorless camera, simply because it doesn't use a mirror. The Q, like the Fuji X100 and Ricoh GR, is a large sensor fixed-lens camera.
lmao 😴😴
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