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"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."

George Best

Thanks. I see there were "technical issues".

I like to look at getdpi.com/forum from time to time. When I go there I get a completely blank page; there is no 404 message, there's nothing. This site: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ says it'd ...

Probably sales volume. The Q2 is pretty specialised, but the Q2M even more so. A more limited market than even the limited market for the Q2. A return on investment problem.

Buy what?

Why not shoot RAW and jpg? You will get a B/W image in the viewfinder if you chose that as the jpg "type", you can view the jpgs later to see which you prefer, and then edit properly/to your taste ...

All RAW images will need editing; unedited they aren't suitable for viewing. Whether you prefer vivid colours, naturalistic colours, muted colours, or even black and white is a personal choice. ...

Many people have asked for this. I suspect that Leica sees the lens, the sensor, and the processor as one "integrated" whole. The lens, when stripped of software corrections, shows marked barrel ...

Agree. There is no problem with the camera. Our brain "knows" that the water should be blue, and we "see" it as blue. The camera sees is as "green". This is a perceptual problem; a common example ...

I don't have an iPhone 11 Pro; mine is an older model. Many modern phone cameras have HDR (High Dynamic Range) turned on by default. It's not at all obvious that the images are composites of ...

The Q2 is an excellent camera, if a bit large. The closest digital replacement for a Minox 35EL — I did have one years ago — is probably a Ricoh GRiii.

I agree with the other respondents here; what you are seeing is perspective, not lens distortion. The Ricoh has a very well optically corrected lens; it doesn't need or have SDC — software ...

The first image: the rainbow looks and is fake. It's not anyway natural. The clouds don't look natural either; that is, they don't look like clouds that belong with this lighting. Apart from some ...

That last image is priceless! You can almost see them drooling. Two petrolheads in the making!

I see, thanks. I don't use Snap Focus, so I didn't realise.

Another question: I'm supposed to set "wide" in the depths of the menu system when using the GW-3 adaptor. Apart from changing the focal length in the EXIF, does this setting change anything else? ...

Ah, Brick Lane! That takes me back several decades. Then I was taken along Brick Lane around 1 or 2 in the morning, with the obligatory stop at the bagel shop. I gather it's still going strong.

I tried the GW-3 on the Leica Q2. At f/1.7 the whole image is very soft and unusable. At f/5.6 and f/11 the image is sharp enough overall. The corners are a bit soft, and there is some comma ...

The position is more compicated; the GR3 has a different lens to the GR and GR2, so perhaps the GW-4 is better matched to this, and the GW-3 better matched to the GR and GR2. Ricoh do make things ...

Found your post, thanks. The difference on the GR3 is in the corners which are soft with the GW-3. I have the original GR which I don't use much — and DD has it at present anyway (though she has ...