I have seen quite many videos here about the settings of the Q3, but this is by far the best one. Thanks a lot for taking your time to explain all that in a very calm and easy to understand way. The Q3 is my first Leica, so getting such basic tips is very helpful for the start
My Q3 finally arrived the other day after a seven-month wait and I found this video very helpful indeed. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this for us all. You are indeed a great instructor.
Thank you so much for the great video! I have owned a Leica SL2s for a year now, and I am currently eagerly awaiting the opportunity to acquire my Q3. Seeing how similar the menu is to my current camera brings me a great deal of happiness.
Thank you Nick! Great explanation - as always! One more thing: my mother tongue is German. Your English is so excellent that I can follow along effortlessly.
Thanks Nick, very useful. Just got my Q3 and getting back into photography after a very long time. Only used a very basic digital camera more than 10 years ago and before that it was all film. I love that you explained things simply and given practical examples of how certain features and options might be used. For me I'm trying to equate and compare with film cameras. And so far so good.
Absolutely the best explain-video of all settings on this camera, thanks a lot! I use my Q3 for over a year now and I immediately changed a few settings. I do have a little extra tip. I noticed after a while that the battery went very low quickly. This appeared to happen because I didn't use the EVF (only the LCD) and usually carry the camera in front of me on the carrying strap. I had this setting (EVF/LCD) at 'auto'. Therefore the EVF turned on all the time using battery. Well, maybe I helped someone with this small tip.
I prefer to turn the camera off when it's hanging on my shoulder. It's very quick to turn on again, and you can turn on the power switch by feel as you lift the camera.
Many thanks for this very helpful video to help get the best of the Q3. I had the original Q so moving to the Q3 I partly already understood the settings and setting a profile, but this has helped me get to grips all the extra facilities which can be a bit daunting at first!
Hi Nick , Thank you. As always an excellent presentation. Valuable and easy to understand. Actually this is my first Leica camera. And what a beauty it is. Exceptionally tactile, wonderful ergonomics and super lovely images. The camera inspires. I just like to pick it up all of the time and take images. Never felt this way before. Adam.
Great video Nick. Of all the settings, I have had trouble with finding a goldilocks setting for the AF. As a long term Q2 user, I have found the best parts of the Q3 to be its sensor and low light capability, when compared with the Q2. ISO 25000 does not seem to be a problem with this camera.
Thanks for the detailed videos on the setup!! Apologies if you've mentioned this but I don't recall. With Q3, is it possible to have allow for AF ONLY (no auto-exposure) on half button press while allow for manual exposure? Coming from M, I am used to setting my own exposure (Aperture & Shutter) but does want the AF
@@LeicaCameraAustralia Thank you so much for confirming. My local Leica store kept telling me it's not possible to manual expose while using AF. I felt skeptical
Thank you for making the video and presenting it in a clear and concise manner and in particular at a reasonable pace. So many people these days treat these things like a thirty second sound bite and want to be finished before they even start. I am on a waiting list for this camera as many are here in Europe. My main system is based around the Olympus OM-1 and I am very used to shooting using exposure compensation and in particular taking note of orange and dark blue flashing blinkers in the viewing and or on the rear screen to show parts of the image which are over and under exposed. Can you please confirm if the Q3 offers the same blinker option in the menu? Your talk seemed to refer to it but I don’t believe you showed this in the later parts of the presentation. Thank you. Regards, Steven.
Thanks for the clear guidance. I would like to have some more guidance o the M and L mods. When taking pictures inside, would it be advantageous to use the L mode so that a similar low light advantage is achieved as with the SL2-S compared to the SL2.
Thank you Nick....well and clear explained. Q: I miss the possibility to center the auto focus area, so im always using the arrows on the wheel selector on the back. Do you know if there is a function that does the same, and could be assigned to a Fn-botton?
Sorry, no centering like on the SL cameras. Not sure why, it's a requested feature for future f/w updates. Rather than use the arrow, I tap the screen if touch screen is on.
Thanks a lot for this comprehensive guide!! So much better that reading the instructions manual 😅 Do you know by any chance if there is a way of maintaining different default settings for photo and video? So for example, that every time I switch to video mode my ss is 1/50 and when I switch to photo it's 1/250? Thanks again!!
Regarding specifically shutter speeds, sorry, no. On the SL2 and SL2-S this is possible because the shutter dial is 'multi function'. On the Q3 it's not possible because it's a dedicated dial - if it's set to 1/60th then that's it. However, other settings will indeed default back to where you left them when you swap from Photo to Video, and back eg ISO, focus mode etc.
Hi Nick, Thanks so much for your video. It helps a lot. I just got my new Q3 and start changing some settings. After i changed the big button on the right hand corner to Photo/Video, it only works from Photo -> Video but it dose not toggle back to Photo and stay on Video Mode all the time. Is that normal or a bug? I am on firmware 2.0.5. I assume it is the latest. Cheers.
Not a bug. Custom Buttons operate independently in Video and Photo modes. If you make a change from default in Photo mode, you will often need to do that in Video too.
Hi, can you have a ‘live’ view mode on the rear lcd which is clear with no text or data? The top and bottom seem to have a strip of info stopping you from composing?
Sure, just cycle through the Info Views until you find the clean one. Press the centre button on the rear to do this. There are three - min. info, max. info and clean.
I have the Q3 43 & I watched this video specifically to learn how to create user profiles. So i was disappointed after almost 35 minutes that you didnt bother explaining because you dont like them. I find them useful. Typically i like to shoot in black and white, but occasionally colour. I also might have variants with different aspect ratios. As the camera doesn’t come with a manual, i was hoping to find out here. I suppose there is a manual you can access online.
Hi 😁 why can’t see in the VF or LCD screen live when I live the ring exposure, only after I take the picture I can see the results, I have everything else automatic. Let’s say I want a dark picture on purpose and have everything auto and only control the aperture, is is possible to see the changes at the same time I move the ring ? On video mode works
I’ve had my Q3 for 2 months and I love it. However I’m not getting anything like 300+ shots from a battery. It’s mainly street shooting and I have already turned off Bluetooth. If I get 150 I think that’s about it. Any suggestions or recommendations other than turn off the LCD? Many thanks.
I got my Q3 just last week and I noticed the camera makes a soft grinding noise when the setting is in AFc It does not do that when I use AFs. Is this normal? The firmware was recently upgraded to 2.0.5
Nice video, but you accidentally skipped a couple of sub-menus: including Focus Assist, Touch AF, AF Tracking Start Position, EVF Frame Rate. Wondering if you just take the default on those?
Yes, you are right. I missed those but will include them in the next installment about video settings. But I do confess I did miss a few accidentally! So much to cover! Thanks for the heads up.
@@LeicaCameraAustralia I guess you can tell how much I like the video because I was following along with my Q3 in hand and that’s how I noticed! Thanks for all the great content.
Hello, I have a serious problem with the Leica Q3 I just bought. The camera's settings constantly change without my consent. For example, the setting I made to shoot only DNG automatically changes to DNG&JPG. Then I set the ISO to 100 and it automatically switches to Auto ISO without my consent. This problem also occurs also in some other settings. I tried to solve the problem with my own means, but I couldn't. Maybe Am I doing something wrong while adjusting the settings? Do I need to lock the settings I made? If so, how and how is locking done? I would appreciate it if you could guide me on how to solve my problem. With thanks, Moiz Cukurel
I have the exact same problem. Can't figure out how user profiles work. I have spent hours changing settings to my liking only to find out that the camera disregards them. Very frustrating.
Your best bet would to be to take the camera to a Leica store and show the staff the problem. I't a bit hard to troubleshoot this via TH-cam comments! But it should not do that. Once a User Profile is set it should remain set, and one a menu option is chosen it should stay chosen.
I found very disturbing that AFL and AEL allow to take only one picture withe AE or/and AF locked because after the first picture it resets and I did not found a way to keep the values locked if I want to take more then one picture with the same value as I can do with every other camera I use.
You can shoot multiples at locked EV and AF values by not lifting your finger off the shutter button and maintaining the half-pressure. If you lift your finger it will refocus.
Nice video but one mistake. At 24:25 you explain long exposure noise reduction. The explanation is not correct. It does not remove random noise. Hot pixels are not random, that is how it works, the second exposure produces the same pattern of hot pixels which it then removes. ‘NR” is really a misnomer. The sensor noise is not reduced
The camera is on the table for demonstration purposes - in this position it's easier to use my forefinger to operate the dial. Naturally, I use my thumb when actually shooting.
I have seen quite many videos here about the settings of the Q3, but this is by far the best one. Thanks a lot for taking your time to explain all that in a very calm and easy to understand way. The Q3 is my first Leica, so getting such basic tips is very helpful for the start
Glad it was helpful!
I’ll come back to this in mid 2024 when my order is fulfilled. I can tell this is going to be useful!
Very useful video. Keeps to the point and covers all the essential options very clearly, (unlike some other videos).
Glad it was helpful!
My Q3 finally arrived the other day after a seven-month wait and I found this video very helpful indeed. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this for us all. You are indeed a great instructor.
I am glad you found it useful.
Thank you Nick. New to Leica, but not new to photography, really appreciate your clear and concise run through. Thanks for making this.
Excellent video! I’ve had my Q3 for 4 months now. Learned a few great bits from your video. Very well put together. Thank you!
Great to hear!
Thank you so much for the great video! I have owned a Leica SL2s for a year now, and I am currently eagerly awaiting the opportunity to acquire my Q3. Seeing how similar the menu is to my current camera brings me a great deal of happiness.
Thank you Nick! Great explanation - as always! One more thing: my mother tongue is German. Your English is so excellent that I can follow along effortlessly.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi. Your tutorials are excellent. I have begun to use and enjoy my Q3 after watchings your videos. Thank you very much.
I'm glad you're enjoying the Q3!
I am a new Leica user and this overview was very helpful. Thankyou
Great to hear!
Thanks Nick, very useful. Just got my Q3 and getting back into photography after a very long time. Only used a very basic digital camera more than 10 years ago and before that it was all film. I love that you explained things simply and given practical examples of how certain features and options might be used. For me I'm trying to equate and compare with film cameras. And so far so good.
Glad it was helpful!
A very insightful video. I just used it (with a couple of minor variations) to set up my new Q3 - 43. Thank you.
Thanks Nick! You make very clear and helpful video's about Leica camera's. They helped me a lot with setting up my Q3 and D-LUX 8. Thank you!
Thanks, Nick. Your videos are so easy to follow, especially with my camera in hand and the pause button handy.
Glad to help!
Absolutely the best explain-video of all settings on this camera, thanks a lot! I use my Q3 for over a year now and I immediately changed a few settings.
I do have a little extra tip. I noticed after a while that the battery went very low quickly. This appeared to happen because I didn't use the EVF (only the LCD) and usually carry the camera in front of me on the carrying strap. I had this setting (EVF/LCD) at 'auto'. Therefore the EVF turned on all the time using battery. Well, maybe I helped someone with this small tip.
I prefer to turn the camera off when it's hanging on my shoulder. It's very quick to turn on again, and you can turn on the power switch by feel as you lift the camera.
Many thanks for this very helpful video to help get the best of the Q3. I had the original Q so moving to the Q3 I partly already understood the settings and setting a profile, but this has helped me get to grips all the extra facilities which can be a bit daunting at first!
Glad it helped!
Hi Nick , Thank you. As always an excellent presentation. Valuable and easy to understand. Actually this is my first Leica camera. And what a beauty it is. Exceptionally tactile, wonderful ergonomics and super lovely images. The camera inspires. I just like to pick it up all of the time and take images. Never felt this way before. Adam.
Glad it was helpful!
I like the way you explain. Not only in this video. Gerd from Germany
Thank you for this guidance, Nick as I set up my new Q3
That`s the best explanation of menu settings I have seen. Best regards from Germany
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video with everything explained so clearly. Thank you
Fabulous insight into what the Q3 can do. Very clearly explained. Thank you. Now, I just need to commit another $10,000 to camera gear 🤔🤔🤔🤔
You can do it!
I did! For better or worse!😂
Very well done. Thank you from Southern California.
You’re welcome!
Excellent video! Clear and concise. Well done.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video Nick. Of all the settings, I have had trouble with finding a goldilocks setting for the AF.
As a long term Q2 user, I have found the best parts of the Q3 to be its sensor and low light capability, when compared with the Q2. ISO 25000 does not seem to be a problem with this camera.
Hi Nick - superb video delivered in a calm and professional manner. Can I ask a really dumb question- what strap is that on the camera?
It's a custom-made strap from a friend of mine who makes incredible leather/steampunk stuff.
Thank you very much for all information and it was very interesting
Thanks very much for this very useful video, the best I know. I,m newer to utube thans to Leica... Can we ask questions? Michel from Paris France
Thank you very much !! Greetings from Germany
Thank you for the video. So if I understood well the shutterspeed limit is the lowest the camera chooses? It’s a bit confusing, limit.
That's right. The lowest the shutter speed will go before pushing up the ISO to keep a correct exposure.
Thanks for the detailed videos on the setup!! Apologies if you've mentioned this but I don't recall. With Q3, is it possible to have allow for AF ONLY (no auto-exposure) on half button press while allow for manual exposure? Coming from M, I am used to setting my own exposure (Aperture & Shutter) but does want the AF
Sure. Just take both shutter speed dial and aperture off A and you have M mode just like an M11.
@@LeicaCameraAustralia Thank you so much for confirming. My local Leica store kept telling me it's not possible to manual expose while using AF. I felt skeptical
Thank you for making the video and presenting it in a clear and concise manner and in particular at a reasonable pace. So many people these days treat these things like a thirty second sound bite and want to be finished before they even start.
I am on a waiting list for this camera as many are here in Europe. My main system is based around the Olympus OM-1 and I am very used to shooting using exposure compensation and in particular taking note of orange and dark blue flashing blinkers in the viewing and or on the rear screen to show parts of the image which are over and under exposed. Can you please confirm if the Q3 offers the same blinker option in the menu? Your talk seemed to refer to it but I don’t believe you showed this in the later parts of the presentation.
Thank you.
Regards,
Steven.
Yes, turn Clipping on in Capture Assistants.
Thanks for the clear guidance. I would like to have some more guidance o the M and L mods. When taking pictures inside, would it be advantageous to use the L mode so that a similar low light advantage is achieved as with the SL2-S compared to the SL2.
Thank you Nick....well and clear explained. Q: I miss the possibility to center the auto focus area, so im always using the arrows on the wheel selector on the back. Do you know if there is a function that does the same, and could be assigned to a Fn-botton?
Sorry, no centering like on the SL cameras. Not sure why, it's a requested feature for future f/w updates. Rather than use the arrow, I tap the screen if touch screen is on.
Excellent excellent excellent. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
very useful video thanks - still waiting on my Q3 - maybe this week?! :)
Hope so!
As always Top Class, thank you
Very welcome
Thanks a lot for this comprehensive guide!! So much better that reading the instructions manual 😅 Do you know by any chance if there is a way of maintaining different default settings for photo and video? So for example, that every time I switch to video mode my ss is 1/50 and when I switch to photo it's 1/250? Thanks again!!
Regarding specifically shutter speeds, sorry, no. On the SL2 and SL2-S this is possible because the shutter dial is 'multi function'. On the Q3 it's not possible because it's a dedicated dial - if it's set to 1/60th then that's it.
However, other settings will indeed default back to where you left them when you swap from Photo to Video, and back eg ISO, focus mode etc.
Very helpful. Just ordered mine and of course, it is back ordered😢
Oh no!
Brilliant demo
Hi Nick, Thanks so much for your video. It helps a lot. I just got my new Q3 and start changing some settings. After i changed the big button on the right hand corner to Photo/Video, it only works from Photo -> Video but it dose not toggle back to Photo and stay on Video Mode all the time. Is that normal or a bug? I am on firmware 2.0.5. I assume it is the latest. Cheers.
Not a bug. Custom Buttons operate independently in Video and Photo modes. If you make a change from default in Photo mode, you will often need to do that in Video too.
Brilliant I found this really helpful thanks
Glad it helped
Awesome thanks for sharing. V clear.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you - very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi, can you have a ‘live’ view mode on the rear lcd which is clear with no text or data? The top and bottom seem to have a strip of info stopping you from composing?
Sure, just cycle through the Info Views until you find the clean one. Press the centre button on the rear to do this. There are three - min. info, max. info and clean.
I have the Q3 43 & I watched this video specifically to learn how to create user profiles. So i was disappointed after almost 35 minutes that you didnt bother explaining because you dont like them. I find them useful. Typically i like to shoot in black and white, but occasionally colour. I also might have variants with different aspect ratios. As the camera doesn’t come with a manual, i was hoping to find out here. I suppose there is a manual you can access online.
Hi 😁 why can’t see in the VF or LCD screen live when I live the ring exposure, only after I take the picture I can see the results, I have everything else automatic. Let’s say I want a dark picture on purpose and have everything auto and only control the aperture, is is possible to see the changes at the same time I move the ring ? On video mode works
Great instruction thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Very useful. Thanks!!
Glad it was helpful!
I’ve had my Q3 for 2 months and I love it. However I’m not getting anything like 300+ shots from a battery. It’s mainly street shooting and I have already turned off Bluetooth. If I get 150 I think that’s about it. Any suggestions or recommendations other than turn off the LCD? Many thanks.
Amazing, another video of a camera that nobody can get their hands on. I will download this one and come back in 8 - 12 months LOL
I got my Q3 just last week and I noticed the camera makes a soft grinding noise when the setting is in AFc It does not do that when I use AFs. Is this normal? The firmware was recently upgraded to 2.0.5
I ordered mine in June from BH…nothing yet.
Massive list of back orders for this camera. It will be worth the wait I'm sure.
Ah cool!
Nice video, but you accidentally skipped a couple of sub-menus: including Focus Assist, Touch AF, AF Tracking Start Position, EVF Frame Rate. Wondering if you just take the default on those?
Yes, you are right. I missed those but will include them in the next installment about video settings. But I do confess I did miss a few accidentally! So much to cover! Thanks for the heads up.
@@LeicaCameraAustralia I guess you can tell how much I like the video because I was following along with my Q3 in hand and that’s how I noticed! Thanks for all the great content.
Hello, I have a serious problem with the Leica Q3 I just bought.
The camera's settings constantly change without my consent.
For example, the setting I made to shoot only DNG automatically changes to DNG&JPG.
Then I set the ISO to 100 and it automatically switches to Auto ISO without my consent.
This problem also occurs also in some other settings.
I tried to solve the problem with my own means, but I couldn't.
Maybe Am I doing something wrong while adjusting the settings?
Do I need to lock the settings I made? If so, how and how is locking done?
I would appreciate it if you could guide me on how to solve my problem. With thanks, Moiz Cukurel
I have the exact same problem. Can't figure out how user profiles work. I have spent hours changing settings to my liking only to find out that the camera disregards them. Very frustrating.
Your best bet would to be to take the camera to a Leica store and show the staff the problem. I't a bit hard to troubleshoot this via TH-cam comments! But it should not do that. Once a User Profile is set it should remain set, and one a menu option is chosen it should stay chosen.
I think the filename prefix is limited to one letter.
Why do Nick Rains use nails for selection on Leica Q3 thumbwheels?
I found very disturbing that AFL and AEL allow to take only one picture withe AE or/and AF locked because after the first picture it resets and I did not found a way to keep the values locked if I want to take more then one picture with the same value as I can do with every other camera I use.
You can shoot multiples at locked EV and AF values by not lifting your finger off the shutter button and maintaining the half-pressure. If you lift your finger it will refocus.
An what about if I want to keep the exposure locked and I need to refocus?
@@LeicaCameraAustralia
In that case I'd simply use manual exposure.
Nice video but one mistake. At 24:25 you explain long exposure noise reduction. The explanation is not correct. It does not remove random noise. Hot pixels are not random, that is how it works, the second exposure produces the same pattern of hot pixels which it then removes. ‘NR” is really a misnomer. The sensor noise is not reduced
The lens will break if you drop the camera since it is too heavy.
Very annoying.... Nick uses indexfinger nails on thumbwheels. Please use your thumb on the thumbwheel.
The camera is on the table for demonstration purposes - in this position it's easier to use my forefinger to operate the dial. Naturally, I use my thumb when actually shooting.