Hey 😊 Ich konnte die Kamera heute in Baden beim DigitalEvent testen. Dank deiner Videos war ich bestens vorbereitet. Ich verstehe den Hype um die Kamera vollstens. Ein wirklich wunderbares Werk von Leica. Und wie immer, super Video. Lieben Gruss 😊
Before I Invest in Q3 43: Excellent video! I have 28mm Q3 but what I noticed is when I shoot Raw it has yellow skin tone cast vs Q3 43mm is more of Nikon Fuji color. Can you do Raw comparison video skintone check for 43mm and 28mm? Hope you make comparison video for this.
@@mathphotographerThank you, and I'm looking forward to your explanation, post processing raw can fix this problem but I want to see SOOC raw skin tone comparison. 😊
Very common technique, fully agree. I do the same when the camera is on a tripod and we talk about product photography where the subject is not moving. In my case here, since the flowers and bees were moving a lot, autofocus tracking really helped me to get good results.
Hello, I am seeing significant axial CA with my copy. Specifically, where there is strong contrast between black and white elements in the frame (an image of the printing in a camera lens, for instance)… magenta and cyan is what I am getting and it is pronounced. Are you able to confirm if you are seeing this kind of fringing?
Not really, I will pay special attention to it in the next weeks but so far everything looks fine to me. Have you been able to correct it in post-processing and using the built-in lens correction profile in Lightroom Classic?
Nice macro shots! For my photography, however, the Q3 43 is still a very limited-use camera without being able to change lenses and focal lengths. I mostly use wide angle and telephoto lenses, not the mid-range (35mm-75mm) so much. I wonder if Leica will come out with an L mount 100mm macro lens, or if they think the Panasonic Lumix 100mm f/2.8 Macro - L Mount Lens is good enough?
Thanks for the positive feedback on the video and shots. I actually also wonder why the Leica SL lens portfolio has no fully fledged macro lens ... would love to have one. Having said that, if Leica would build such a lens, say, 100mm Macro f/2.8, the magnification would likely be only 1:2 and not 1:1 which is a self-imposed limit Leica had for a long time on native lens magnification if I am not mistaken.
Ich glaube dass die kleine Blumschen sind Lantana. Sehr huebsch immer. The exquisite details, micro contrast and color of this lens and sensor are remarkable. I think of the Q3 43 as a pocket X2D + XCD 55v. The only problem with this wonderful video is the camera. It is in your hands not mine. Mine is still backordered at B&H. Soon I hope. Thanks for another thoughtful, thorough video review and a chance for me to again inflict my Gymnasiumdeutsch on you. ;o)
Very nice comment, many thanks for that 😊 Crossing fingers for you that you get your hands asap on this new Leica gadget! You will love shooting with it. I have the camera currently with me wherever I go.
Hi Matt . Excellent video with the correct math and explanations 🎉 I shot macro with the 28. Tulips and Sunflowers with bubblebees. Since it is F2.8 I also tried normal with F1.7 and cropped. Sometime I prefer the shallow DoF of 1.7 in normal mode over the macro since the macro is not real macro. IMO it is a gadget. I love the 43, in the beginning I had to step back to get everything in frame cause you get used to 28 😅 Love you Aquanaut btw 😊 Thanks for sharing and a great weekend
Thanks RS, great to hear from you! Your comment on normal mode and widest open aperture is spot on, fully agree. And it seems we share our excitement about the Q3 43, its currently with me wherever I go, love it. Have a great Sunday.
In the bad old days of mental arithmetic you could get close up filters of say 1.4 to magnify or in effect shrink the field of view down a few degrees. Unfortunately the quality was lacking so this led to lusting after real (1:1) macro lenses which were v.rare and v.expensive. Another cheaper way was to get a reversing ring which allowed a lens to be turned around! Sounds silly but it really worked. For Leica and other serious cameras, bellows systems were the ‘bees knees’. With them you could actually see the bees knees! One fascinating area is microscope adaptors which are able to reveal worlds within worlds. Incidentally Leica make incredible microscopes. BTW your ‘hummingbird hawk moth’ pronunciation is better than mine and I’m English. And that Patek Phillipe is a beautiful watch to watch. Just out of interest what is German for hummingbird hawk moth?
Oooops, that hurts. If I get the conversion right, that's about USD 8'000? If yes, then the AUD price is way-off too high, B&H offers the Q3 43 in the US for about USD 6'800. I have no idea about these price differences in different countries. What I also observe though is that many gadgets are in the US cheaper than in Switzerland if you just do the currency conversion.
Haha, thanks for your comment, like it! As said in the video, I know well that a lens typically is called "macro" from a magnification of 1:2 on and higher 😊 I just wanted to play a bit and see what OpenAi has to say to this topic and included the answer in the video.
i had to dislike the video, I cannot stand ai being used nonchalantly in photography. ai should be banned from photography. I say that an im 23, I am not even an old school photographer !
That's ok, thanks for your thoughts on this. I could have quoted any standard text book, of course. But with all due respect and fully accepting your view on AI, If you rigorously reject AI in photography, do not buy any cameras with subject detection, not from Leica, not from Sony, not from Fuji, Canon, Nikon or any other brand. Because every subject detection algorithm in modern cameras (like eye recognition, face recognition, bird and animal recognition) is based on supervised machine learning and AI 😅
Hello, I am seeing significant axial CA with my copy. Specifically, where there is strong contrast between black and white elements in the frame (an image of the printing in a camera lens, for instance)… magenta and cyan is what I am getting and it is pronounced. Are you able to confirm if you are seeing this kind of fringing?
Have not observed these issues yet but will pay attention to it now. Were you able to do proper corrections in post-processing via built-in lens profile in Lightroom Classic?
@@mathphotographer apologies for posting the same question twice! I don’t believe a lens profile has been added to Lightroom to date. That’s said, axial CA is pretty difficult to remove in post. No lens design is perfect, so I’m mainly keen to make sure that my lens isn’t performing this way due to an alignment issue.
Hey 😊
Ich konnte die Kamera heute in Baden beim DigitalEvent testen. Dank deiner Videos war ich bestens vorbereitet. Ich verstehe den Hype um die Kamera vollstens. Ein wirklich wunderbares Werk von Leica.
Und wie immer, super Video. Lieben Gruss 😊
Herzlichen Dank, Eugen. Freut mich, dass Dir die Kamera gefällt, ist momentan die Kamera, die ich überall hin mitnehme. Danke für das nette Feedback.
Before I Invest in Q3 43:
Excellent video! I have 28mm Q3 but what I noticed is when I shoot Raw it has yellow skin tone cast vs Q3 43mm is more of Nikon Fuji color. Can you do Raw comparison video skintone check for 43mm and 28mm?
Hope you make comparison video for this.
I am happy to have a look into that topic, interests me too 😊
@@mathphotographerThank you, and I'm looking forward to your explanation, post processing raw can fix this problem but I want to see SOOC raw skin tone comparison. 😊
Another excellent video! Thank you. Now, can we see what else is in the watch collection? Love the 5968A001!
Great introduction and demonstratio of the macro mode👌did you try the ELPRO 52 with this lens? Do you think it would give better results?
Thanks for your comment, really good idea. It will try it out in the next couple of weeks and get back with results.
For Macro I like to put it in manual mode closest distance and and play with hands for focus. Then I get largest image possible.
Very common technique, fully agree. I do the same when the camera is on a tripod and we talk about product photography where the subject is not moving. In my case here, since the flowers and bees were moving a lot, autofocus tracking really helped me to get good results.
Hello,
I am seeing significant axial CA with my copy. Specifically, where there is strong contrast between black and white elements in the frame (an image of the printing in a camera lens, for instance)… magenta and cyan is what I am getting and it is pronounced. Are you able to confirm if you are seeing this kind of fringing?
Not really, I will pay special attention to it in the next weeks but so far everything looks fine to me. Have you been able to correct it in post-processing and using the built-in lens correction profile in Lightroom Classic?
Nice macro shots! For my photography, however, the Q3 43 is still a very limited-use camera without being able to change lenses and focal lengths. I mostly use wide angle and telephoto lenses, not the mid-range (35mm-75mm) so much. I wonder if Leica will come out with an L mount 100mm macro lens, or if they think the Panasonic Lumix 100mm f/2.8 Macro - L Mount Lens is good enough?
Thanks for the positive feedback on the video and shots. I actually also wonder why the Leica SL lens portfolio has no fully fledged macro lens ... would love to have one. Having said that, if Leica would build such a lens, say, 100mm Macro f/2.8, the magnification would likely be only 1:2 and not 1:1 which is a self-imposed limit Leica had for a long time on native lens magnification if I am not mistaken.
Ich glaube dass die kleine Blumschen sind Lantana. Sehr huebsch immer. The exquisite details, micro contrast and color of this lens and sensor are remarkable. I think of the Q3 43 as a pocket X2D + XCD 55v. The only problem with this wonderful video is the camera. It is in your hands not mine. Mine is still backordered at B&H. Soon I hope. Thanks for another thoughtful, thorough video review and a chance for me to again inflict my Gymnasiumdeutsch on you. ;o)
Very nice comment, many thanks for that 😊 Crossing fingers for you that you get your hands asap on this new Leica gadget! You will love shooting with it. I have the camera currently with me wherever I go.
Hi Matt . Excellent video with the correct math and explanations 🎉
I shot macro with the 28. Tulips and Sunflowers with bubblebees. Since it is F2.8 I also tried normal with F1.7 and cropped. Sometime I prefer the shallow DoF of 1.7 in normal mode over the macro since the macro is not real macro.
IMO it is a gadget.
I love the 43, in the beginning I had to step back to get everything in frame cause you get used to 28 😅
Love you Aquanaut btw 😊
Thanks for sharing and a great weekend
Thanks RS, great to hear from you! Your comment on normal mode and widest open aperture is spot on, fully agree. And it seems we share our excitement about the Q3 43, its currently with me wherever I go, love it. Have a great Sunday.
In the bad old days of mental arithmetic you could get close up filters of say 1.4 to magnify or in effect shrink the field of view down a few degrees. Unfortunately the quality was lacking so this led to lusting after real (1:1) macro lenses which were v.rare and v.expensive. Another cheaper way was to get a reversing ring which allowed a lens to be turned around! Sounds silly but it really worked. For Leica and other serious cameras, bellows systems were the ‘bees knees’. With them you could actually see the bees knees! One fascinating area is microscope adaptors which are able to reveal worlds within worlds. Incidentally Leica make incredible microscopes. BTW your ‘hummingbird hawk moth’ pronunciation is better than mine and I’m English. And that Patek Phillipe is a beautiful watch to watch. Just out of interest what is German for hummingbird hawk moth?
The pictures so Beautiful 😍
Thank you very much.
Very nice 5968A.
Thanks - its a great watch indeed!
Thank you
Pleasure 😊
can you explain why this camera is $12000 aus dollars please.???????maybe do a video
Oooops, that hurts. If I get the conversion right, that's about USD 8'000? If yes, then the AUD price is way-off too high, B&H offers the Q3 43 in the US for about USD 6'800. I have no idea about these price differences in different countries. What I also observe though is that many gadgets are in the US cheaper than in Switzerland if you just do the currency conversion.
asking chatgpt for a definition of macro is a choice. not a good one, mind you, but a choice nonetheless.
Haha, thanks for your comment, like it! As said in the video, I know well that a lens typically is called "macro" from a magnification of 1:2 on and higher 😊 I just wanted to play a bit and see what OpenAi has to say to this topic and included the answer in the video.
i had to dislike the video, I cannot stand ai being used nonchalantly in photography. ai should be banned from photography. I say that an im 23, I am not even an old school photographer !
That's ok, thanks for your thoughts on this. I could have quoted any standard text book, of course. But with all due respect and fully accepting your view on AI, If you rigorously reject AI in photography, do not buy any cameras with subject detection, not from Leica, not from Sony, not from Fuji, Canon, Nikon or any other brand. Because every subject detection algorithm in modern cameras (like eye recognition, face recognition, bird and animal recognition) is based on supervised machine learning and AI 😅
Hello,
I am seeing significant axial CA with my copy. Specifically, where there is strong contrast between black and white elements in the frame (an image of the printing in a camera lens, for instance)… magenta and cyan is what I am getting and it is pronounced. Are you able to confirm if you are seeing this kind of fringing?
Have not observed these issues yet but will pay attention to it now. Were you able to do proper corrections in post-processing via built-in lens profile in Lightroom Classic?
@@mathphotographer apologies for posting the same question twice! I don’t believe a lens profile has been added to Lightroom to date. That’s said, axial CA is pretty difficult to remove in post. No lens design is perfect, so I’m mainly keen to make sure that my lens isn’t performing this way due to an alignment issue.