Red Dot Forum Camera Talk: What Not to Do with Leica

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In this episode of Red Dot Forum Camera Talk, Leica experts David Farkas and Josh Lehrer will be exploring all the things NOT to do with Leica cameras and lenses. Covering a wide range of topics from incorrect aperture settings and poor focusing technique to dangerous tripod use and awkward menu setup, they'll go over the most common mistakes that befall even the most experienced users.
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Timestamps:
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0:00 - Start
2:22 - Intro
5:11 - LHSA
10:00 - Don’t shoot past f/8 or f/11
14:29 - Don’t stack a filter on top of a UV filter
17:40 - Don’t shoot a collapsible lens collapsed
20:45 - Don’t forget to update your firmware
27:05 - Don’t change lenses with the camera pointed up
33:08 - Don’t use an SD card without formatting it first
40:05 - Don’t forget to set the date and time on your camera
42:26 - Don’t throw your Leica boxes away
45:52 - Don’t wait until an important photo trip to test your gear
50:08 - Don’t use a shirt to clean your gear
51:40 - Don’t shoot JPG only
56:03 - Don’t forget to adjust your diopter
59:29 - Don’t trust infinity focus
1:02:45 - Don’t short-leg your tripod
1:08:55 - Don’t use image stabilization when mounted on a tripod
1:09:45 - Don’t use auto ISO on a tripod
1:12:03 - Don’t always shoot wide open
1:15:56 - Don’t be afraid of experimenting
1:20:34 - Don’t use a UV IR filter on any camera besides M8
1:22:36 - Don’t go shoot without an extra battery and SD card
1:26:54 - Don’t forget to back up your photos
1:31:17 - Don’t put your fingers on the M viewfinder windows
1:32:16 - Don’t buy an M9 with the old CCD sensor
1:33:52 - Don’t expose to the right
1:43:03 - Don’t ignore the custom function buttons
1:47:52 - Don’t store cameras and lenses in attics, basements or garage
1:51:03 - Don’t use alcohol on painted cameras or leather
1:52:43 - Don’t edit photos on a computer/tablet with auto-brightness or night-shift turned on
1:55:45 - Don’t stop shooting
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Комментарии : 65

@artandweightloss 2 года назад

With Leica M (especially film ones) the most important one was the lesson Brian Duffy taught - never shoot with lens cap on....

@drbva2 Год назад

You guys are amazing educators. Please keep up the good work. Just a suggestion - SD cards are designed to be reused. Having a correct backup system is a more optimal and affordable system of backing up and storing files. Having a back up drive stored in a different building is safe as a fire can’t burn both sources when stored in different locations (i.e bank safety deposit box). Backup the backup every three months and return it to the second safe location seems like a good option. Just a suggestion

@ctmdarkonestm Год назад

i learned the infinity focus thing. for some reason, especially the older lenses, i find actual infinity is usually a smidge to the left of the infinity mark

@jessekoskinen 2 года назад

As a professional cook, I loved the way you expressed the matter at 1:42:30.

@johndukekisch1111 5 месяцев назад

(SL2 and Q2 shooter) Thank you both. Always SO informative. I'm confident all of us eagerly await your next streaming. However -and you've even hinted it yourselves- just a little more pre-prep and less banter could cut your showtime by 1/3 and much to the appeal of your listeners (and Jose), IIMHO. Regardless, we're all profiting immensely from RDF so please keep up your fine work.

@hanvandewal917 2 года назад

A great show. The nugget of knowledge to me was defraction avoiding and not use too high apertures like 16. The 'idea to get everything completely correct is from my Canon Fib film days, when you needed to have everything OK. Greetings from Holland. Thank you!!

@dexterslabmi 7 месяцев назад

Very good episode… tripod tips, shooting pass f8 and keeping boxes are pure gold. Been searching for CL to purchase and almost every seller so far doesn’t have the box. I have passed on several because of it.

@jjbs58 Год назад

Best pert of video - dont blow your highlights . . . Amen brother . . . 1:39:00 - its an entire process - using what your paying for . . .

@kqschwarz 8 месяцев назад

Another great episode. I am preparing for a trip and wrote down a bunch of your suggestions for tripod shooting and ordered some lens cloths from Amazon. I will set up a custom function for tripod shooting when I get home incorporating your suggestions and adding manual exposure and manual focusing. Thank you.

@eatstudysleep 2 года назад

A note on auto-brightness/night shift - the new MacBooks have built-in editing display profiles (including a photography one!) that tunes the display to a specific color gamut and locks the brightness for a completely repeatable display experience! It's really nice, give it a shot.

@kevinkazakevich5766 2 года назад

I am a hobby photographer and I thought this was very educational on how to avoid mistakes and how to create lots of stuff! I have a M6 and some great photos and want to get a digital camera someday.

@ronitsingh85 2 года назад

Very curious to watch this one! As always you 3 are great

@jrprophotography5961 2 года назад

Eyelead sensor cleaning: 1- why using the orange not the blue Eyelead ? 2- Did you have any residue left on sensor ? 3- Have you ever use the Eyelead in high temperature environment ? Thanks Very great show so useful Congrat. guys Keep it running

@rudigerwolf9626 2 года назад

David, Just caught up on Saturday’s show. Love those programs. You mentioned that your typical gear is an SL2 and Q2 Monochrome. I am thinking about focusing on the M11 as my main landscape camera. Any pros/cons as to why you are using the SL2 vs the M11 for landscape? Would really appreciate a better understanding of your thought process in selecting the SL2 over the M11. Thanks

@MB-or8js 2 года назад

Thanks for the advice to update firmware - I wasn't aware that the latest firmware for my M-E 240 was released a while ago. Just downloaded and installed it without experiencing issues. Maybe not necessary if no latest Leica M lenses are used with the camera, but it can't hurt either to have the update installed.

@rolandrickphotography 9 месяцев назад

The best protection of the front element is the lens hood, it also doesn’t sacrifice lens quality, 17:34. If you bump the lens accidentally into something without correctly mounted lens hood, the filter and front element is gone.

@y2ktube 2 года назад

Video @ 49:22 "updating lens firmware" - Forced Updating - Besides aging issues, another reason to stay away from expensive modern electronic lenses etc. This also happens with my DJI drone (I CAN'T fly it until the factory takes control of my equipment !).

@62smarty 2 года назад

Great as always! Thanks!

@andrewswann556 2 года назад

Hi from Auckland, New Zealand...first timer live...

@carlosmcse 2 года назад

I do the same. Backup the card (in the rare case that I took a photo I liked), if not, forget it, but always format and Then go out and take photos. For the M I like Sandisk 128 or 64GB. 170/90MB/s.

@kmcsmart 2 года назад

Great video and tips. My question is how can you be sure that the microfibre cloth in you pocket is clean? Wouldn’t you be better to keep it in a case or bag in your pocket? Does anyone make a nice case for this purpose? Also how do you clean your microfibre cloths. I am always so worried about my cloth being dirty somehow but I live on a horse farm so maybe it’s different for the city slickers. Thanks for all the great advice.

@MarcoRyser 2 года назад

Really enjoyed this one - particularly the SD card part. As for the firmware: I’m still waiting for Leica to fix video recording and exposure compensation on the original Q. 😏

@RamonBrito 2 года назад

I really doubt that they will release a firmware update for this. I own the q as well and I have been waiting for the same thing

@MarcoRyser 2 года назад

@@RamonBrito Yes, I wish I could be as enthusiastic about Leica and their firmware maintenance policy as or RDF friends. 😄

@richarddenise3886 2 года назад

Low expectation from the title, but as usual - Really well done!

@petruskap 2 года назад

In my Leica Q, I used to cover the speaker / mic with tape to avoid the dust to come in....

@james-p 2 года назад

OK, I'm ordering more SD cards now! lol. BTW, Josh, nice meeting you and your red anodized lens at the Leitz Photographica event - (Hey, I recognize that lens! Oh, there's Josh too! lol)

@irenedp4947 2 года назад

thanks for a great show! Re the firmware update (and Josh’s comments about the S2) I happen to have one of those very few left, sensor changed, and can’t find the last firmware version anywhere. Any help would be welcome :-)

@carlosriveros3039 2 года назад

great channel, can you do more with the q2, maybe some portrits please

@wpdoyle 2 года назад

I love your videos. Any chance you could do time stamps in post? Would make it much easier to find what's most relevant. Thanks!

@RedDotForum 2 года назад

We generally add timestamps to our livestreams for this exact reason.

@bychrisjones Год назад

Omg I live in Colorado Springs and didn’t see this till now lol

@crissignori7482 7 месяцев назад

ok all fine and dandy but how about a firmware update for my Leica M3? 🤣😂Another excellent episode. Thanks guys

@spyhardman 2 года назад

Just a few days ago, I accidentally deleted all the images on my M11, so I would echo the importance of tip #33!

@Dpul945 Год назад

Question re firmware. I just bought a used M10 and the firmware was really old, so I updated to the latest. If there were firmware updates in between the old firmware it had and the one I loaded will those features be loaded or missed?

@Deetroiter Год назад

I’m a couple of months behind your post, but when you update to the most recent update, it will typically include everything that was introduced between your old and the newest firmware updates.

@matte-d349 2 года назад

1:47:00 David mentions that you can enable/disable only options you want to see on your function buttons on the SL2. HOW do you do this?? My Q2 can do this under "Customize Controls" and it's great, but on my SL2-S I have to scroll through pages and pages of functions I will never assign to a button, and can't for the life of me figure out how to disable them. Thanks!

@LensEthics Год назад

Can the Elmar 50mm 2.8 (not Elmar-M) be used with the film camera MP? If yes, are there any quirks when mounting and unmounting this lens or other things I should be mindful of or things I cannot do with this lens and camera?

@ridonp3058 2 года назад

Would they be able to add highlight weighted metering on the M10R as a firmware update, or is that something thats not possible due to hardware in the camera?

@jon-nolanacousticsingerson9920 Год назад

Could you please prepare a link to the organization and a link to the event? Thank you in advance for your help.

@dans.8198 2 года назад

@42:02 I keep the time set to UTC+0, so I do not have to “remember to not forget” setting the correct time zone and daylight-saving nonsense, ever.

@MoghulVeyron 2 года назад

Can we do one of these for analogue M cameras? Especially considering all the misinformation on forums etc.

@jlehrer1890 2 года назад

We did! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-peZmeTCjfO4.html

@hokyung888 2 года назад

38:07 I personally never format my used cards and I never buy cards that have more than 64GB of space. Why? If there is any problem with the portable SSD where the photos are backed up, I can always go back to the original files on the SD cards. Also, 64GB is small enough that I get to swap and back-up cards often. Even if a card gets damaged it is only 64GB worth of data that is lost not 256GB or 512GB worth of data.

@zjuniverse 8 месяцев назад

Anyone knows why they stop RU-vid video production?

@UnconventionalReasoning Год назад

I'm probably more controversial, I never do post-production. 🤣 The jpeg out of the camera is the finished product.

@fn5954 2 года назад

Can you use Leica Typ 114 or V Lux 5 as a webcam?

@MrKILLIANSMITH Год назад

You know, much as I love Leica products ... I do think that the M Cameras should have "built-in" diopter adjustment at this stage of proceedings ... I think its a bit "mean" to ask another £170.00 for a diopter correction lens after paying £7,500.00 for the camera body ...

@thomastuorto9929 2 года назад

So, what is the difference between deleting & formatting in camera. I choose my keepers & upload them on the computer. With the photos still on the card, I format in camera. So far so good. Is this the best way for it to be done? Thanks for any replies. PS; Not a Leica owner.

@RedDotForum 2 года назад

By deleting in-camera, we are referring to deleting single images during playback, not formatting the card to erase everything. By only transferring your "keepers" to your computer and deleting the rest, you might be missing out on some hidden gems. Every so often, we'll go back through images in Lightroom that weren't starred or edited and discover that we missed some really excellent shots. At the time, some of these might be less obvious to spot, so by transferring everything you give yourself the opportunity for further discovery later.

@thomastuorto9929 2 года назад

@@RedDotForum Thanks. I use to keep them all & what your are saying is so true. I shoot a lot of wildlife & come home with out of focus photos. They get deleted. Thank you for replying,Happy Easter & as always, enjoyed the RDF!

@ronaldmoravec2692 3 месяца назад

A dear friend who had a wedding photog business employing six other photogs whom he trained. he did a wedding late 50`s or 60`s. Yes he did an entire wedding with a 50mm collapsed. SUPER EMBARRASSING.

@blakeaghili4681 2 года назад

Lol the unlocking of tripod happens to me with 4x5 Sinar

@rolandrickphotography 9 месяцев назад

🤔🤔🤔 Is that an official Leica recommendation at 31:50? From an engineer’s point of view I honestly doubt that. The chances to destroy you IBIS motors are higher if they are power on and you swipe against it with brute force. E.g. DJI drones instantly pop up a warning on the screen if you accidentally slightly touch the gimbal the drone powered on. Of course the sensor wiggles if powered off. The inside of a camera with IBIS are sensitive parts, cleaning it is like open heart surgery and by common sense it must be done carefully. And never ever touch the shutter blades: some brands offer a firmware option closing the shutter if powered of to prevent dust on sensor when changing lenses, it is not a sensor protection. The sensor itself is far less sensitive as the shutter blades are.

@ferjeouichaker Год назад

Well worth the money, grwat product

@cfagil Год назад

I guess Leica may put filter threads on their binoculars if there is enough demand from the UV filter loving users.

@GillesQuennevilleGQ Месяц назад

You need to use an external portable ssd hard disk drive to save your files that i always keep in my bag. Dont save your SD cards. This is stupid and way too much expensive.

@healthid 2 года назад

I'm sorry, but I still think the box think is kinda dumb. Sure it's nice, but $200 for cardboard? It's embarrassing.

@Jupiter4Alphs 2 года назад

Leica CL is dead. It appears. I realy wanted that one ... It's the smallest. Those S CCD camera's are also failing. Motorproblems. M9 ... It's almost like planned. Al the old models die, get forgotten. Lucky the body's are so cheap ... When you buy a Leica camera you buy a dead camera. Firmware don't cancel CL and T. Would be funny if you needed to pay for the better firmware to. Haha "free firmware" wow.

@robcowle7288 Год назад

I have found the ISO above 800 very disappointing as being noisy. I know of others who have made this comment. I've bought this to Leica's attention but they say it is normal. Have you found this to be?

@RS-Amsterdam 2 года назад

Nice video guys but I want to make a note about firmware. An update is NOT INTENT to give you FREE FEATURES. It is to address bugs, shortcomings and solve errors With many years of Beta testing behind me (and problem solving in released software for computer and IT equipment) the general (so most of the time) life cycle of software releases are , Alpha, Beta, Release Candidate, Stable Release and RTM (release to manufacturing or often called ready to market) and the the official release. Since marketing often announces a release date it often happens that the firmware (software) is not completely ready. Then they decide what can wait till the first update so the camera or application in general, is stable to use. So they buy time to fix it and wait for users input, cause MENTIONING that a camera is not released on the announce date because of software problems is NOT GOOD MARKETING.

@RedDotForum 2 года назад

When Leica releases firmware years after the introduction of the camera and rolls out new features, that is exactly their intent. We're very familiar with the typical alpha/beta/RC/RTM cycle as we've also been involved with camera testing for many years. And yes, often firmware updates do address bugs or glitches. Sometimes they are to roll out features that weren't quite ready at launch. But other times, they introduce features, improved AF algorithms, additional file compression options, or updated UI elements.