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Leica Q (Typ 116) : Specifications and Opinions

Leica Q (Typ 116)

The Leica Q (Typ 116) is a compact camera with FF (1.0x) sensor and 24.2 megapixels manufactured from 2015 to 2019 (discontinued). The range of sensitivities, including ISO extension, is 100 - 50000 ISO and it has a continuous shooting (burst mode) of 10 FPS. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is 4190 €;

70 users have given it an average vote of 9.4 out of 10

Sensor
Format	FF (1.0x)
Resolution	24.2 megapixel (pixel pitch 6.00 μm)
ISO sensitivities	100 - 50000
File formats	JPEG, RAW
Esposure
Shutter speeds	30" - 1/16000
Exp. compensation	+/- 3 stops at 1/3 steps
Exp. modes	M, S, A, P, Scene
Metering modes	Multi-Area, Semi-Spot, Spot
Features
Stabilization	Yes
Autofocus (AF areas)	49
Continuos shooting	10 FPS
Pre-Burst	No
Live View	Yes
Video mode	1920x1080p @ 60 FPS
WiFi	Yes
GPS	No
Camera body and built
Lens	28.0mm f/1.7 (28mm equiv.)
Min. focus distance	0.17 meters
Touchscreen	Yes
LCD	3.0", 720 x 480 pixels, fixed
Viewfinder	Electronic, coverage 100%, x
Flash	No
Storage	SD, SDHC, SDXC
Storage, Slot 2	not available
Battery	Leica BP-DC 12, 8.70 Wh
Weather sealing	No
Weight	640 g
Dimensions	130 x 80 x 93 mm
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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.

Wilier86

sent on March 21, 2023

Pros: Lens quality, construction materials, a little gem.

Cons: continuous focus that does not go at all, they could even not insert it, problems with dust infiltration, you have to cover the microphones with insulating tape, electronic viewfinder not at the levels of the current on the market.

Opinion: You say, but in 2023 it is still valid. NI. It has superlative image quality, color rendering. Materials of the highest quality. In the cons what I put. Continuous focus not good and lack of being able to change lens, but those who buy a leica know what they are buying otherwise it goes on something else, surely if I have to do sports I use my canon r6, this leica q was born for lovers of pure reportage. problems with dust infiltration, microphones must be covered with insulating tape, electronic viewfinder not at the levels of current on the market. Conclusions, to so many defects and so many defects, either you love it or you hate it.

Agostini Renzo

sent on August 02, 2022

Pros: A top image quality.

Cons: Maybe the price, the battery life.

Opinion: It's a small photographic dream that comes true, in addition to landscape photography I love street and reportage, I had turned on a Richo gr3, large, I repeat great camera, but for the problems I have to the eye, shooting from the display was a problem, so going to the RCE of Livorno, exquisite people, they proposed me this Leica Q kept very well at a fair price, the moment I took it in my hand the feeling clicked and I decided to take it, I had a Nikon Z7ii and Z6ii, I gave back the Z6ii, with some lenses that I did not use and the small Richo and now the Q is in my hands. I only took a few shots, but the images I saw in the MEC made me realize that this sumilux 28mm 1.7 is a portent. This is a camera that gives a lot of satisfaction and even the lens that at first gave me to think about being a fixed 28mm made me change my mind with this beginning a new and different relationship with photography. I am fully satisfied with the choice made, we mean in addition to the merits there are also the defects as in ALL the cameras, but in this case the merits outweigh the defects in a big way.

Vincio85

sent on February 22, 2022

Pros: lens, dexterity, manual focus, dng file, solid and excellent materials, metric scale on the barrel, saving settings to the PC,

Cons: non-tropicalized, lack double slot, EVF magnification, power key, video key, joystick, no metric scale in EVF, no user profile names, cost.

Opinion: I have owned it for several years now, amazing lens, camera body with badly thought design choices! For a simple use, point and click, the machine has been designed in a sensible way, in fact it presents everything you need for street photography, travel, reportage or the time ring, the diaphragm ring, the manual focus ring. Yet despite this simplicity of use, which Leica is famous for as making it a lifestyle, there are a few things that make it cumbersome. So I report the things that I did not like: 1) The joystick in addition to being tiny and flat, if designed for photography alone is inconvenient, as it allows you to move the focus point with the various arrows, but if you want to reposition in the center it does not work, in its place if you click in the center of the joystick the video starts. So to bring the AF back to the center you have to double tap on the LCD. 2) EVF really resolute, now I do not want anything under 3mpx, but despite this, the refresh is slow especially in low light conditions or with slow times, because the machine reproduces the preview when you click halfway through the shutter (this thing can not be deactivated). In addition, the magnification of the EVF in my opinion is not the best, throwing in the eye you have the feeling of being inside a box, you can see the inner walls of the viewfinder. 3) power button, really ugly and uncomfortable, having the two modes Af-S and C makes the ignition annoying, in fact on the leica Q2 it has been eliminated, but even here they did not put the classic screw button of the leica M that could be useful for the mechanical remote shooting or for a soft release button 4) REC button on the upper shell, really useless for those who do not make videos, also absurd that you can not program at will, on the leica Q2 has been solved by adding the pressure on the compensation ring and then set at will the chosen option as the WB. 5) user profiles, these are really convenient and I use them as I created the four presets for the various shooting scenarios, but I find it absurd that if I click on the rear FN button it does not show me the name I assigned to the profiles themselves, so you have to go to memory. 6) absence of tropicalization, with what it cost at the time, absurd that they did not immediately think of making it suitable to withstand the weather, especially being fixed optics, in this case to solve the problem I used electrician tape in critical points (between body and lens where there is the macro switch, so I do not macro, so I do not macro, tape on the case back and microphone holes) and to date despite having been everywhere the sensor is clean. 7) flicker and banding in the presence of artificial lights and in certain shooting conditions, it occurs both in preview and in rare cases also in photos. 8) poor general grip in addition to the fact that on the back back there is no skin, so first I solved with the thumbs up, then removed and replaced with the front grip. 9) buffer not really fast especially if you make multiple shots, it also happened to me in an episode to have 2 corrupt raw files, changed the SD. 10) White balance, the machine in "WB-automatic" shows colors always faithful to reality, on this leica is a guarantee, what I did not like is the absence of the WB Shift or the ability to customize the individual color channels to give a different look if necessary. Having made this realistic review in my opinion the cost of the machine mainly justifies the lens, the quality of the materials and the simplicity of the whole system as well as the choice of raw DNG files that I share (same thing does Ricoh and Sigma) I find them much more comfortable and versatile than any other brand. Moreover, if you can live with the limits described above I would say that it is to be preferred over the Leica Q2.

LuckyDario

sent on November 09, 2020

Pros: Manoeuvrability, extraordinary optics

Cons: Battery life, virtually useless video mode, not tropicalized

Opinion: A compact FF that mounts a Summilux (which then Summilux is not, given the diaphragm 1.7) is already a great thing, without considering the minimum focus distance that compared to the Summilux and Summicron series, and more generally the M and R series have a limit of 0.70m, on the Q we can even take advantage of the macro, which however will work at f2.8 once the macro ring is turned. The video mode unfortunately remains marginal, no possibility to use an external microphone, exposure that works only on compensation and hunger rates at multiples of 30, with relative shutter times, so not only during recording there are annoying changes of exposure but also the presence of flickering is high. A real shame because it would have been a great body B (C, in my case) for those who already work with Panasonic's S1h aunts. Excellent for the streets since the 28, better than the 35 in urban environments is ideal, too bad for the lack of tropicalization that we find in the next model Q2, but all this stuff had already been said.

Michele Bonomo

sent on October 31, 2020

Pros: photo quality,handling

Cons: cost, battery life and sensor that gets dirty easily

Opinion: a machine that costs 4000 euros and is not even tropicalized with sensor that gets dirty after two three exits and then to clean the sensor ask you 350 euros plus VAT it seems to me that it is not worth buying it. The first time I saw dust in the sensor I didn't believe my eyes, I cleaned the monitor to plus I can't be incredulous that you could dirty a sensor with fixed lens. Then I took her to Venice and the mountains not to Africa. Then when the store asked me for 500 euros because rightly the service you pay I decided to keep it like this and that when the dirt on the sensor is excessive I throw it in the garbage. My Canon EOS 5D Mar4k IV with which I did ill Rajastan, Gujarat, Peru, Bolivia and Morocco to which I change my goals I had to clean the sensor only once.

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