The sensor, however, has a Mr. Hyde side to it. At 47MP the raw files weigh as much as a bar of depleted uranium - up to 90MB per shot😳! Yes, you can shoot jpegs, but personally I was underwhelmed by the color rendition of the Maestro processing engine. The camera has very minor adjustments available through software and made me seriously long for some Fuji colors out of the box. My six core Macbook starts levitating on ventilation fan exhaust the moment I import fifty of the Leica Q2 DNGs into Lightroom. Not only are the files heavy storage-wise, Lightroom gets totally crippled (🔥) having to process that much data during import. Working with the files is manageable one at a time, but they're no joke.
Oh, camera manufacturers - here's an idea.
Please throw in a basic curve adjustment tool into the camera software in addition to the shadow, contrast, and saturation settings.
The whole industry is going through a retro-hipster cycle now and allowing these stylistic preferences to be saved in-camera would save so much time. Yours truly hasn't succumbed to playing vinyls yet, but I do like the crunched look of film on my digital files. Yes, I'm a simple man🧐.
The 28mm F1.7 Summilux lens quality is out of this world. Some people are rightfully saying that buying this type of Leica glass alone would run you close to $5K and the Q2 body is thrown in for free when you buy this package. The statement is probably a stretch, but this glass showed no aberrations wide open in a variety of shooting scenarios.
Personally, I find 28mm slightly too wide for subjects I shoot and I'll talk about why "cropping in" is not really the best solution in the ergonomics section of the review. I really think Leica could build a killer product with a baked in 35mm F1.4 lens - wide enough for contextual street shots, shallow when needed for portraits, small enough to be a compact.