Manfrotto Street Belt Bag: The Perfect Street Bag for Leica Q Series
June 21, 2023
I was looking for a small waist bag to carry around the Leica Q2 and came across Manfrotto's Street Belt Bag. It's designed for smaller compact cameras; however, I was able to just fit the Q2 with room to spare. The design is great with adjustable belts and a dark green exterior that makes it less obvious that it's a camera bag.
It's an ideal daily camera bag for street photography, with included padding, a back pocket, and two loops under the bag to hold a tripod or a water bottle. It will also fit the new Leica Q3 as well as the popular Fujifilm X100V.
Dimensions:
- Volume: 2L
- External: 24cm / 9" x 13cm / 5.1" x 15cm/ 5.9"
- Internal: 22cm / 8.2" x 11cm / 4.3" x 13cm / 5.1"
You can find it on Amazon.com here: Manfrotto Street Belt Bag
Leica Q2 vs Q3
June 17, 2023
I purchased a new Q2 with a significant discount after the Q3 was announced. For those who are thinking of selling their Q2 for the latest and greatest, or if you are considering a used Q2 over a Q3, this was my thought process:
- extra megapixels: don't need, rarely crop above a "50mm focal length", AI upscaling an option
- improved iso: don't need, never shoot at insane levels of iso and AI tools can denoise incredibly well
- phase detect AF: decent
- higher res evf: would be nice, but won't result in better photos
- higher res tilt screen: don't need tilt function, back of camera ergonomics/design worse now but higher res would have been cool
- faster burst rate: doesn't apply to my style
- 8k video: don't need
- bigger battery: could purchase separately as it will work for both models
- latest generation processor: would be nice to have but current works for me
- usb-c: prob the best new addition
- mini-hdmi: don't need it
- wireless charging: weak design as it needs to align 100% for it to work. Leica could have just used metal terminals on the bottom of the camera and sold charging bases.
- secure lens cap with 3 color options: major improvement haha
- "Leica Looks" and other software changes: all can be done in post and new AI imaging tools will be hard to beat
Did I miss anything?
Leica Q2 has better aesthetics due to the new flippy screen on the Q3.
Rumor: Leica will continue to sell the Q2 and rebrand it and call it a "Q-E". If this is true, the Q2 may become even more popular.
I also bought one of these dusters mainly for its awesome missile design, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it works even better than I thought. It gets rid of dust on the camera and also works well for keyboards. I still need to test if it can function as a mini Nerf football.
You can find it on Amazon.com here: Giottos-AA1900
