airfrogusmc wrote:
One great thing about the M 10 M is how quiet the shutter is. My M 10s sound loud now ha ha. And they were quieter than my M 262. I rarely get noticed by anyone with my Leica's.
That's how I feel about the Q2 and Q2M. The shutter is virtually inaudible.
Also, the AF in the Q2 cameras is good enough to shoot from the hip or chest and get a reasonably high percentage of in-focus images. The trick is in learning to aim or angle the camera correctly so as to put the focusing rectangle on the subject. It takes practice, but so does zone focusing. My understanding is that a small aperture is usually required with ZF. This is not the case with AF, which leaves room for creative blurring of the foreground and background.
I am not trying to denigrate zone focusing. Photographers should use whatever works best for them. I should probably improve my own ZF skills. The Qs have a smooth-as-butter MF ring that would seem to be well suited to that purpose.