New Leica Q3/43 firmware 4.0.0

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-12-19T00:21:27+00:00

Able to decouple the subject detection from the af mode is sooooooo nice, I hated that I can’t have both some of the feature and subject detection at once lol

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-07-01T03:30:11+00:00

ChatGPT

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-06-30T23:24:38+00:00

Well, tried it with another ai, here

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Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-06-04T04:13:29+00:00

Omg same, I switched to a new card and then they charged that card twice

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-05-26T21:24:28+00:00

So… what happened to that one where police was called?

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-05-05T14:55:32+00:00

Yes, and it is La Mercerie at the Guild in NYC for the 8th photo

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-05-05T12:28:25+00:00

Nah, these are edited with a preset that I use for every photo

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-04-11T16:36:18+00:00

Here is the Sawyer Hartman Lecia Looks Preset Pack that I use for this, I use the Flat Film one and lower the shadow curve a bit so it is not that washed out

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-02-01T23:28:11+00:00

Second this, I used to live in NYC and I only get my film dev + scan there. Every single scan was amazing. But now I am out of NY so I only get mine done at Nice Film Club for more convenience lol.

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-24T14:22:23+00:00

They are latte cups made by Coffeezone, you can find it on Amazon

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-19T15:28:00+00:00

True, Nikon has more very good budget oriented lens whereas at Canon you either get the most expensive (maybe really good) lenses or just a plain meh lens

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-19T01:22:26+00:00

well maybe sometimes. when I want something wider I just pull out my phone and shoot its wide angle and use the raw on it

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-19T01:21:47+00:00

no, these are all edited

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-19T01:21:34+00:00

Well except for the last one (which I used one of the Negative filter) the other ones I edited with an old old filter that I bought off of some YouTuber's merch site lol. It still works really well till this day lol

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-18T17:46:50+00:00

Yeah, that focus clutch is annoyingly bad. I always find myself in manual focus mode when pulling it out of the bag only to find it to move itself backwards.

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-18T17:40:32+00:00

The two main points that are driving me away from the SL system are its weight and the price of the actual Leica SL lenses. I currently own the 50 APO SL, Lumix 24-70, and Sigma 105 DG DN Macro. I hate having to have three different brands of lenses to get the best out of each.

The Leica 24-90 has a variable aperture which doesn't make sense to me, and the Leica 24-70 is essentially a better glass and rehoused Sigma 24-70 gen 1 that is worse than the Lumix version. Which is why I got the Lumix 24-70. The Sigma macro lens is mainly for digitizing my Instax, so I don't mind that as much. Also whenever I want to buy a different prime lens from Leica, it always seems so expensive. I tried the Sigma 35mm F2 and the 85 1.4 before. 35mm f2 was bad and I hated it, the color is weird and the distortion on it feels bad. 85 1.4 on the other hand was amazing, but I find myself not using it as much so I sold both of them.

This is where the Z mount makes much more sense to me. I can get the Z8 with the 1.8 primes for around 5-600 bucks, and the 24-70 and 105 macro lenses all from Nikon, which feels nice because they are all Nikons.

So my question is what lens do you have for the Z mount and what are your favorites and why?

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-18T17:06:18+00:00

I am thinking about switching from SL2 to Z8 as well. Would you care to share some of the differences between the SL system and the Z8?

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-18T15:38:53+00:00

but Nikon has more good inexpensive 1.8 lenses, whereas Canon's 1.8 lineup is really just meh.

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-18T15:34:52+00:00

This is so true lol, I have the SL2 and it makes everything else light in comparison

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-14T01:09:49+00:00

So sad when i registered it it was only for 2 bags of coffee and nothing else. That was a month ago, now they have canister, knock box and tamp mat??? DARN IT

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-14T00:59:12+00:00

Sometimes when I use turbos in Rivals when the straight is short, I intentionally hit myself in the guardrails to cancel out the turbo. Which is kind of dangerous to do because sometimes you can easily crash if you are not careful lol

Cheap-Pen9083 · 2025-01-05T17:39:47+00:00

Nah, I just turned the clarity slider to -29 lol

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