Thorsten Overgaards Leica Pages Leica Q Digital Rangefinder Camera   The Leica QBy Thorsten Overgaard. May 2. 8, 2. 01. 5 Latest update September 2. Index of Thorsten von Overgaards user review pages covering Leica M9, Leica M9 P, M E, Leica M1. Leica M 2. 40, Leica M D 2. Leica M Monochrom, M 2. Leica Q and Leica SL Add to Flipboard Magazine. To be, or not to be, that is the Q The Leica Q will teach you the art of walking. Good walking shoes is the first important feature of any photographer. A portable camera is the next. You will miss your 9. Noctilux the first days with the Leica Q. Now you got to move your feet and use your head to compose. One lens is all you got. Its brilliant. This is the camera for training of the eye and mind. Private garden in the city centre of Aarhus, Denmark. Leica Q 2. 00 ISO, f1. CERud-t_3hE/VC5eK6WIAOI/AAAAAAAAAl0/64pE08opQ8Y/s1600/adobe-camera-raw.jpg' alt='Raw Image Task 1.2 Download Canon' title='Raw Image Task 1.2 Download Canon' />BW ND filter. Thorsten Overgaard. New from Thorsten Overgaard Leica Q Masterclass e. Book Leica Q Masterclass Video Course Leica Q. Presets for Lightroom        Thorsten Overgaard Leica Q Video Course The know all e. Book on the Leica QBy Thorsten Overgaard Leica Q Presets for Lightroom. This is the complete bundle you can preorder now at special price. Its a pretty complete package with over two hours of Thorsten Overgaard Leica Q Video Course, and the Leica Q Masterclass e. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Thorsten Overgaard Official Homepage Since 1996 Thorsten von Overgaard is a Danish writer and photographer, specializing in portrait photography and documentary. Raw Image Task 1.2 Download Canon' title='Raw Image Task 1.2 Download Canon' />Book. For computer, i. Pad, smartphone and Kindle. At also comes with Thorstens Lightroom presets for the Leica Q. Buy Now. Only 2. Bundle with Video Course, e. Book and LR Presets  1. Order bundle now. Instant delivery of video course. Booka and Presets follows. Should I get the Leica Q. When people ask me, what camera to get, there is not many to point at. You want a simple camera with a very few controls, those few controls should all be the outside of the camera, not hidden in 2. Few essential controls and nothing more. The Leica Digilux 2 from 2. Leica Q from 2. 01. Both Leica cameras primarily developed by Leica Camera AG, and both using only an Electronic Viewfinder EVF, allowing the camera to use a central shutter in the lens and thus make the camera completely silent when it takes pictures. Thorsten Overgaard. Tutorial Dx Studio Game here. The last great camera that was so simple that the user could focus on what is in front of the camera, and could make photographs of high optical quality, was the Leica Digilux 2. This is a camera I have used extensively and written a lot about. The Leica Digilux 2 from February 2. Magic-Lantern-canon-1068x665.jpg' alt='Raw Image Task 1.2 Download Canon' title='Raw Image Task 1.2 Download Canon' />Other cameras I have referred people to to has been the Canon G cameras. I dont think people are aware of what a painful question they ask when they ask someone to recommend a good camera. But now the Leica Q is here, and it is actually a good camera. Leica Q black white converted in Lightroom from the Leica Q DNG. ISO 1. 00, f1. 7, 15. Thorsten Overgaard. What is a good camera. All digital cameras come on the market for a few years and go to the eternal consumer graveyard to be forgotten. Only the Leica Digilux 2 have uplifted itself to a what seems an infinity of life and use for a digital camera. Many still use it, and many still discover one for the first time. Before digital, cameras lasted for a longer time. Leica M film cameras, Nikon F, Olympus OM1. Hasselblad 5. 00 CM, and some others. The cameras made to make pictures with was the ones that stayed with us for a long time, and even when we stopped using them, we kept the idea of them with us. We look for similar good cameras, and they are hard to find. The Leica Q is the type of camera you can do wonderful simple things with. Backyard in Denmark. Leica Q 1. 00 ISO, f1. Thorsten Overgaard. A Leica with built in selfie stick. If you have visited the pyramids in Egypt, the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Spanish Steps in Rome recently, you will have seen the amount of selfie sticks that swarm those places. I think Leica should seriously think about making a Leica C or similar small camera with a built in selfie stick. The competition these days for camera producers comes from smartphones. We all got one, and my own Joy Villa has gone so far that she records and edits videos on the i. Phone. Thats how practical, compact and high resolution it is. It solves a bottleneck transferring files, mixing of sound and exporting. Apples Phil Schillerin 2. Steve Jobs talked about making an Apple camera. Well, in fact they did with the i. Phone which has become more and more of a camera. Apples weak point is archiving our images but thats another story for another day. The Leica Q is not that camera with built in selfie stick. It is a luxury and high quality camera that fills a gap between the selfie stick reportage and the semi pro camera. A selfie without a selfie stick. Leica Q at 1. 00 ISO, f1. Thorsten Overgaard. Portable. When I say that portable is the most important feature for a camera, I actually mean it. I have met enough people to know that ambitious camera systems stay home and are only taken out when the demand for use is so high you have to live with the pain of carrying a heavy and complicated system. This is where the family demand that you take pictures of the kids first swimming lessons, or the 6. The implied pain you will suffer if you dont take pictures is greater than the pain of carrying the precious camera system you bought that evening where you had the money and was all fired up on revitalizing your purpose to do real serious photography. You will be delighted to find out this is the best article you have ever read. Read on I looked in the 1. Year Leica book recently and read that Oskar Barnack, who invented the first Leica about 1. Leica had to be portable and work without accessories. It simply had to fit into a pocket of a jacket despite the norm back then. To give the full picture, the cameras used at that time were large boxes that absolutely didnt fit into a pocket of a jacket, and often they required tripod and extra film magazines one for each picture. Some even needed additional light to take a picture. Photography in the 1. Simply a camera. I must say, even now after weeks use of the Leica Q, I am amazed that all I have to bring is. This is really the re fulfillment of the original vision for a new type of camera that would change photography forever after World War I. No extra lenses, no electronic viewfinder to attach, no lens cap, no nothing. Simply a camera I know, who could have predicted that was the exact amount of features and accessories that you needed to make a man happy is Nothing Stanley Kubrick with his Leica III A perfect reportage camera. I see the Leica Q more as a reportage camera than an artistic tool. It follows more in the tradition of the original Leica in idea of being a mobile and compact camera that everybody could use to capture photographs with, rather than a specialized tool to create a special look. Buildings in Aarhus, Denmark. This is the auction house where the police sell off lost and found bicycles and other. Leica Q 1. 00 ISO, f1. Thorsten Overgaard. The word reportage comes from the Old French reporter which means carry back and that is what we always wanted to do. This is how serious we take the reportage photography in this day and age. Everybody does reportage photography with their phones and the amount of people with cameras is quite amazing. Leica Q Titanium. Thorsten Overgaard. Professional reportage photographers have gone from large d. Ahci Sata Dos Driver For Windows Xp 64 Bit. SLR cameras Canon 1. D and Nikon D4 to smaller semi pro d. SLR cameras Canon 5.