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Leica Q: Self Timer Woes
The Leica Q self timer implementation has two major flaws, and one glaring deficiency as compared to other more thoughtfully designed cameras:
- The Leica Q self timer resets to OFF every shot.
- The Leica Q self timer offers only 2s or 12s choices. For many scenarios, 2 seconds is too short and 12 seconds is too long, or not long enough. Given that it’s a toggle function from OFF to the timing options, what’s so hard about offering 2/3/5/8/12/20/30 second choices or simply allowing selection of any arbitrary value?
- Camera like the Ricoh GR offers a “take N shots I seconds apart waiting S seconds for the first shot”—given the reset-to-OFF behavior of the Q. This is very useful for taking selfies or groups shots (someone always blinks, etc).
- There is no sound when the self timer is counting down. This is a practical problem because the blinking light is not very well done, not always visible, and so one has to guess when the shutter will fire (e.g., selfie or group shot or similar).
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