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Terrible comparison! That lens is horrible! I know some love it, but if you had the lens I’d love to see a comparison with the the voigtlander 40mm 1.2. One of my favorites with my ZF. Actually not one of my favorites, it is my favorite.

Can you let us know why you have black tape on the bottom of your Fujifilm?

Love your closing “gymnastic thought” along with your analysis comparing the 28mm to a zoom and the 43mm to a prime. It helped me get clear on my thoughts about these two exceptional cameras. Very interesting and thoughtful video. Thank you!

I am really intrigued once I saw the announcement from Leica. 40mm-ish Lenses were always my go-to and know we got in in the Leica Q3. I hope I can get one next year. Do you stick to the Leica Q3 43? Grüße! ;)

The Q 28mm was 28mm, yes, it's wider if you don't enable the corrections, but who uses the camera without corrections?

Interesting take on the focal length. I use mine to document my family too and would prefer the 43 over the 28.

What’s the beat camera strap for Q343

я купив 28мм і міняти на 43 не збираюся, почекаю leica4 😊

матриці різні і обʼєктиви різні, порівняння робили просто для цікавості? бо практично немає чого порівнювати

The fact that the lens is fixed and you have to permanently live with your choice makes the 43mm too restricted for true versatility for me. As a 2nd camera it would be great but 28mm means I can live with a single camera.

Spot on!

Great video! I can’t wait to trade-in my Q2 for the Q3 43 (if my local Leica store can finally get one :-)

Schatzi?

You make a very good point about cropping in on a 28, and I am sure many photographers do this. The one thing they are missing out on is by doing this, is they are losing out on depth. Which is a powerful technique to build layers in a scene. I love the compression of 43mm but i expansion of 28mm is a sweet spot in the street. So get closer to the subject with a 28mm. i am happy that you think deeply about your photography and that have recovered from the Flu. Have a great weekend!

Servus, interessante und nachvollziehbare Gedankengänge! Wie du richtig gesagt hast ist die Q3 43 super für Portraits und Dokumentarfotografie geeignet. Ich nutze die normale Q3 primär als Reisekamera und als Ergänzung zu meinem bestehenden M System. Das 28er an der Q3 erweitert meinen kleinen Objektivpark mit 50mm und 90mm perfekt :-) Wenn ich aber nur eine einzige Kamera hätte würde ich vermutlich zur Q3 43 greifen, da 50mm meine Lieblingsbrennweite ist :-)

Interesting how many Q users now opt for 43mm. I would have supposed that someone dropping 5k on a setup, already would know what focal length he or she prefers 😅

Glad to see you’re well. My son was also hit with a stomach bug this past week. When I used the Q3, I find myself cropping in a lot. Q3 43 has been just right for me.

Because i cant bring myself to drop 5k on a leica i ended up getting the 28mm conversion kit for my Fuji x100vi and a 40mm lens for my Nikon Z8 and i must say both focal lengths are really fun. I think if i id get a leica q i'd find it hard to choose. Whne i dont have the 28 on my fuji.. 35 never feels wide enough now oddly.. and the ability to crop makes it not so much of pain. The 40 is great.. nice seperation on photos.. you can snipe people a little more as well.. depends what kinda phtograpgher you are what you shouold get,

I had a Q3 43 in my hand now and I will buy a FUJIFILM X100IV for wider range! 😊

Are you sure that you've got a total recovery from your stomach flu? I'll share a little test of mine that I run to make it sure: Try to not retain the next gas. Just let it go. Blind trust. If you feel like a little flow of warm liquid matter coming out.... Well, you are not fully recovered. Best wishes!!

I agree. The 43 is the sweet spot between 35 and 50. Additionally it is our natural perspective so what I capture as an image is what I saw at the moment. I prefer this way. Thanks.

Great comparison! I just watched a video about the 28 being better than the 43 by giving the user a wider focal length and more options to crop. But they don't address that the compression doesn't change with a crop so you're still stuck with the "look" of a 28 mm. For myself a 43 focal length challenges me to improve my photography skills within the limitations of the frame. I feel like with a 28 it's more of a run and gun type of point and shoot camera and too much of an inconvenience in my workflow if I have to rely on cropping in post to get the image I want. For now I'm sticking with the Q3 43 and a Ricoh GR3 if I want the wider frame.

Glad you are feeling better and back on the case. Yes, the community can be quite opinionated about these two focal lengths. Having shot the 28 for about a year and now transitioning to the 43, I do think 43 is a more versatile and useful focal length for most people in most instances. Slippery of you to throw in that brain teaser at the end about the dilemma of the lower-megapixel Q1 and the same question.

You do a very good comparison Between the 28(25) and 43. I do not own either Q However The human FOV for two eyes is near 60 degrees. A lens with focal length of 35mm fits that FOV. Just a fact Thank you for your video

Interesting comparison between the 28 vs 43 and how you use them.

Nice review thank you. I have been shooting with both Q3's for a week now and I look at them both as primes and would only do minimal crops for composition on each typically. But I'm sure there will be times when I will crop-zoom on both as I plan to only carry these two for 90% of my travels and shoots. Enjoy the kiddos! They grow up way too fast! Let's see some of your pics next time.

hey! nice video :) just curious, I see the extra grip, do you really need the extra grip or is it still fine without in normal usage?

The best camera is the one you have, when you need it. Or... the one you like, the way you like it. I think we can all appreciate that the Leica offers no real, tangible advantage when comparing images side by side. Make deep crops and print them "double truck", in a high quality magazine, or print them on A1 paper and you'll never see meaningful difference. That said... I will always WANT the Leica!!!

Excellent video, thank you for your effort!

it’s very hard to believe that you are complaining about lens distortion after having experience with other systems and various lenses.

Do you find the power switch loose? I just received mine recently and I find the power switch way too loose and keeps turning on in my bag..

For those talking about "worth/money saved", you are not Lecia target audience , you are also not Ferrari/private jet sellers audience

It's a very good comparison and I've said the modern cameras are now reaching a plateau where a $2000 camera can be as good as a $6000 camera in the right circumstances and we know with Lieca cameras you are paying for build quality and a whole bunch of other things besides the actual photo that it produces in fact many ways for many of those users. The final product is not probably the most important thing. It's the experience of taking a photo and enjoying being outside or with friend. The outcome of photos is often not the most important thing in Photography and that's something you discovered later on. That's not to say that it's not a valid video to test the two cameras. It's great and intriguing. I personally wouldn't spend that kind of money on a camera of that type. I do have a big GFX camera for my professional grade Work, but I wouldn't be spending the equivalent money for basically a 40 mm Street camera. I could get a Fuji XT3 for $1000 and put just as good quality images you could grab about five or six modern cameras right now and put them all side-by-side and it would be very difficult to tell the difference in image quality with the equivalent 40 mm lens.

Please compare it against the real 43, the Pentax FA43/1.9 Limited :)

This comparision sounds quite interesting. Probably you can upload the Raw pictures for comparision. Don‘t you think that the Leica Q3 is too big as well and too expensive for a everyday carry? Probably the Fuji X 100 VI fits best?

Great video 👍

I bought the akirood from amazon added the red ruberband that came with my fuji 100vi since there were three and boom it seald perfect and the macro work flawlessly and that is with the breakthrough filter or any other filter. so happy now

wow what a huge lens, never seen this before, great Video thanks for sharing. Best regards from Northern Norway

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That was a great experiment. Thanks for taking your time for preparing this!

Any camera can take an image, and unless you pixel peep as these types of videos do everytime, you have to make your own minds up. Obviously Nikon and Leica fan boys will come down on one side or the other. I shoot with multiple brands and sensor sizes, and camera / lens combinations (including Leica M6, digital and analogue compacts) and I feel that most people fixate too much on equipment and not on the image taking experience. For a lot of people that shoot Leica, it is a combination of build quality, aesthetics, image quality, shooting experience ... As a side note, I own several several Canon bodies and shoot both a Canon and Voightlander 40mm lenses, and choose either based on the experience (Voightlander is fully manual with aperture feedback) and I would never sit and compare the image quality from both, as they both have their merits ... Just get out and shoot.

Good video, thanks. I think for pixel peeping it would be better to choose a higher magnification like 300% or 400%. I would be easier then to see differences in the youtube video.

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Kudos for trying! Currently I use a canon 100mm macro and you can get close enough to fill the sensor.

Fascinating experiment Phil. Thanks for sharing.

not stupid at all

Leica can only dream of being a ZF… The autofocus / Response is next level on the ZF.

An interesting process 👍👊✨

Love this comparison. If you still have Leica Q3 28mm, Can you please do a Raw comparison video skin tone check for 43mm and 28mm? I have 28mm Q3 but what I noticed is when I shoot Raw it has a yellow skin tone cast vs Q3 43mm is closer to the Nikon Fuji RAW image color. Can you do Raw comparison video skin tone check for 43mm and 28mm? I know post-processing can fix this color tone issue but I am looking for direct Raw comparison. Hope you make comparison video for this. Looking forward to see it!

Thanks for this great comparison video. I’d be interested to see how Nikon’s 40mm holds up on one of their higher megapixel bodies. As it stands, there’s so little between them it’s hard to argue against buying the Nikon!