Thanks

You should know that all the best photographers use their left eye!

If all you do is post to social, you are killing a mosquito with a very expensive atom bomb. Use your iPhone?

I found your channel back when these vids were originally posted. I was looking for an X100V but couldn’t bring myself to overpay due to the limited availability. Since then, I decided to get a Leica Q2 & was looking at the Wotancraft Pilot. So naturally, KZbin re-recommended these vids to me. I am so bummed that you didn’t make more vids, I loved your perspective & comedic approach. I would have loved to see you doing street photography, in a vid but it’s looks like maybe you went a different direction & decided not to continue on KZbin. I hope you’re still doing the photography thing (sorry, I have no socials outside of KZbin).

Nice work man! Which strap are you using on the Gr?

Hey my iPhone shoots at 48 mp 👍📷

Great video thx. Your Instagram links doesn’t work?

I'm with you on the Q2. I've had the "Reporter" version for about 7 months and love it. I also have a M10-p, but a tremor makes it harder for me to use. So the Q2 is great. However, a fellow photographer and I went to a museum show opening the other day. He had an old 35mm film Olympus pocket camera and captured many more photos than I did. So I bought a GR IIIx for situations like that and on the street. I haven't used it much, but see it as complementary to the Q2. Thanks for your insightful review.

Hey Nic nice review subbed cheers. I bought the Q2, initial thoughts were I was surprised at how much noise at 3200 and above, but in general the images from that camera are impressive. I killed the camera after just 14 days, it's now off to Wetzler for a new sensor so as it's a 4 month turnaround I bought a used damaged Q rear LCD dead, rest of camera is good. Loving it so far.

I love my Q2 Reporter, it does for me what it does for you. But I was in a museum with a photo buddy and he was using a tiny Olympus 35 mm film camera and getting way more pics than I. So I just bought a Ricoh GR IIIx for those tight quarters situations. I hoping the two will complement each other. One can put the GR IIIx in a pocket. The Q2 is inconspicuous on the street, but there are other situations where I think the GR could be better. Thanks for your review of the Q2. It was insightful and thoughtful.

Thanks for the helpful video. I have two question s🙋🏻‍♂️ about the camera sittings for the Q2. I am trying a combination for street photography. It is aperture priority with an limited Auto ISO that has minimum shutter speed of 1/250. My questions are : 1- If I put my shutter speed dial on Auto with the combination I mentioned above , the shutter speed keeps going slower than the minimum shutter speed I set with the Auto ISO . Do you have a solution for that ? I mean I want Auto shutter speed and Auto ISO but it is not working with me. 2- What is the best exposure preview for such combination? I mean I cannot have a real time exposure preview with that combination. I read the manual and it is not working. In many cases I under exposed my pictures because of that . It is so frustrating . It would be great if you could help me . Thanks 🙏

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I looked at a Leica Q2 today at a dealer, and it felt lower budget in the hand than I expected. I’m surprised that people don’t mention the lower quality feel compared to Leica M or SL cameras. Surprisingly, the CL had a higher quality feel to it. RIP CL. 😢 Maybe Leica wanted to make sure the Q2 wasn’t too heavy to satisfy more buyers. Weight wise, it was pretty close to the Contax S2 I had on me at the time of my visit.

Quality ,the othe brands will not last as long and dirt will get into the sensor .

I got mine used for $700. It is a great camera but the dumb control wheel is faulty and squiggly. I think I'm going to keep it. I was going to trade it in and get a grii for the flash but I think the griii is exceptional. I mean I can still take pictures, right?

The decisive moment can’t happen over composite. Just scart

You didn't talk much about picture quality did you? I think you did describe the camera's pros and cons fairly. I just got mine and haven't had a chance to walk about with it. I think it will be a great travel, and backup camera for my Fujifilm XPro3.

Content of this video : A rich spoiled leica guy laughing on gr

If the camera inspires you, then it's a winner!

Whats with this crap trend of throwing everything around like you don't care about the gear, its really annoying, to many of you doing it, don't copy be yourself

It's doubtful that any person making real images would ever carry this much gear.

Thanks for the review! Been looking into Q2 for some time now.. However, x100v which you mentioned as a variant, is on my radar too)). But your words that x100v is only "well over fourth of the camera" (Q2) at 13.12 kinda took me aback.. Really? Just like.. 40 or 50 % of Q2.. and GR III is "85%" ? I am very interested in x100v.. budgetwise)) I am just curious and not judging in any way) So how do you calculate here? Thanks again!

I bought a gr iii to be a smaller take every where camera to go with my xt4 kit. I don't know how I feel about it yet. I may return it yet, hard to decide

Too much distractions

Here is the thing about "expensive" Leica cameras - arguably, the cost of ownership is the lowest of any camera. I bought a Leica M8 in 2017 and used it for four years. In 2017 it cost me $1079 USD from a dealer (KEH). Go ahead and check if you don't believe me, but the camera is now worth more than I paid four years ago. I got paid to use a Leica. There is no other digital camera where this happens.

Really fun video:)

nice honest review. thank you. when you mentioned the cons (and alternative cameras) though, you didn't mention the original Q; which has most of the goodness of the Q2, without the expensive accessories, the large files and the price tag.

Please do some small clip hows to use camera function or setting would be great help for newbies like me 😂 great content and video quality

It seems that on Amazon they have third party battery that are way cheaper do they not work correctly?

great vid

Nic Great video. I myself am a 28mm shooter. That's why i got rid of the x100v (35mm ff). You would say that 7mm is not that big of a difference but it is. Right now my issue is to buy this camera vs buying the 18mm for the leica Cl. There are several benefits to them both, so Im kind of figuring it out. Thanks again for the very informative video.

How do you have this few subscribers? Every video I’ve watched of yours is high quality, insightful, funny, etc. I thought ‘this guy doesn’t need me to subscribe, he’s obviously a pro at this KZbin game’ then I looked at the Subscriber count & I literally did a double take. How? I love your videos, I subscribed, I’m just one guy. Unfortunately I’m not on social media but I’ll definitely send links to photo people I know who would also enjoy your vids. Hopefully your channel will blow up soon, you have some great content.

Used the GRIII for 3weeks. The relatively high price is the GRIII’s No1 enemy that makes its flaws inexcusable. Its not a cheap pocket camera in many countries. Its high price is cleverly achieved by it being overly-hyped up by Western media as a “street camera” and given a self-created cult following. Classic American marketing. If it was a REAL street photography camera, it surely would have these mandatory things on such a “street camera”: 1. Big and bright EVF with excellent focus peaking. But as usual, most mftrs are clever in not giving such competently useful EVFs unless you buy the higher-priced models. Ricoh is bullshitting you here. Where’s the EVF? 2. Fast and accurate manual focusing. How is this possible when the LCD screen is almost blanked out by bright outdoor lighting? Back to square 1….same issue as your smartphones. 3. Zone focusing scale. Do you see one? 4. Ruggedly built. While its price is rugged, with a magnesium body, its dial feels flimsy while that silly ring around the lens (which always comes loose) make the product look like a cheap product. In reality, the majority of GRIII photos that you have seen, can easily be replicated with any flagship smartphones with simple editing, (which I have been doing since iPhone 4 until now. And I also use an XT2 with Voight 40mm 1.2). Its certainly fun and exciting to participate in such a cult following thats created and “excited-tized” by American social media if you can just close your eye and buy one GRIII, while having loads of other cameras. But if you have to ponder, analyse and rethink many times before deciding, then pls look at my comments above and re-think. Do you need to spend so much on a hyped-up product while your own smartphone (if cleverly exploited) can give similar results? And dont forget…your smartphone can be used in the rain😂😂😂…Do you dare to use the GR3 in the rain when merely DUST ingress into sensor is already an issue for many users? The more you analyse without emotions and biasness, the more you’ll see that the GRIII is a highly “exciting-fied” piece of cheap stuff for amateurs wanting to appear hip and professional. No thanks. At the moment, I’ll stick to my XT2 + Voight, while continuing to use my iP12ProMax for all casual shooting.

Nicely done, and you touched on something that I think is worth taking a deeper dive into ... the aspect that the photographs we take MAY be more special to US because of what we shot them with, and maybe that's ok. I had an original GRD (8.1mp!) and snap-moded all over nyc ... so so fun! I also had lots of Leica gear, but I liked the photos I took much more with Feds and Zorkis, simply because of what you said, in essence ... they're cheap and fun and ask nothing of you, so when they give back even SOMETHING ... it's magical. Magical just for me, maybe. But why SHOULDN'T I embrace that?

You can do hyperlocal distance with snap focus cant you?

Yep that lens is incredible, I've used it when I owned the original Leica Q and my current Q2 Monochrome. I kind of want the regular Q2 for color photos even though many will say its redundant.

Nice perspective, thanks 👍

I use a Canon 750d but a DSLR is sometimes a little cumbersome so I often end up stuck with my phone, and despite the hype, the P30 pro is severely lacking when it comes to capturing RAW images so I often see a shot and just pass on it. The ricoh would be more to fill that niche rather than be my go to camera and is in my wishlist for when I have a spare £750 or so.

Selling your M6 must have hurt .

Nice video!! I definitely want to try a Leica at some point. Thanks for sharing! :)

that persona 3 music. nice.

Very thoughtful video. I jumped into Leica from Sony last August with a Q2 and M10 with a few M lenses. Loved them all. I made the mistake of reading up on the SL system and dumped them all for an SL2-S with a couple SL lenses in May. I was missing the Q so much I have a mint second hand Q Titanium arriving Friday. Can’t wait.

Nice video…don’t mind your rambling like a so……….😂 thanks for sharing. Cheers..

That's it I'm selling my camera collection to get a Q2