Leica Q3 43 DOUBLE MAGNIFICATION via Leica Elpro E52
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025
- This is a follow-up video to my recent video on Macro Photography with the new Leica Q3 43 which you find here:
NEW Leica Q3 43mm | Apo-Summicron Macro Quality:
• NEW Leica Q3 43mm | Ap...
Answering a question in the comment section, I show now in this video here how close-up photography capabilities of the Leica Q3 43 significantly improve if you mount the Leica Elpro E52 on top of the Apo-Summicron 43mm lens of the Leica Q3 43.
As I show and explain in the video, the maximum magnification of the Leica Q3 43 in Macro Mode doubles from a standalone maximum magnification of 0.25x to a maximum magnification of 0.5x when the Leica Elpro E52 close-up lens is mounted on top of the Apo-Summicron 43mm.
Last but not least I also show via sample images that the Elpro E52 preserves the excellent image quality delivered by the Apo-Summicron 43mm lens of the Leica Q3 43 if you apply some post-processing to overcome some softness in the corners and deal with some distortion via lens corrections.
A magnification of 0.5x means that the Leica Q3 43 with the Elpro E52 mounted is a true Macro Photography camera which opens completely new horizons when it comes to product photography and representation of details in photography.
See also my other Leica Q3 43 videos on my channel.
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Excellent video.
Well explained.
About the subscribers. I often wonder why top quality channels like yours don't get recognision they deserve, while other channel with a lot of bs and bad photography go over 100K in a heart beat.
There are not many people who really understand the indepth info you give them.
Anyways, thanks for sharing and a great weekend
Thanks RS, at least I try to show some ambition :) Great you liked the video, hope all is well. Have a great Sunday evening.
What a cool attachment! It should be called the Q-Cumber.
Love it, Q-Cumber 😂
I love taking photos of watches and have to crop in on my 28mm Q2. This is a game changer and on the 43mm it is stunning. Thanks for the informative review.
Thanks again 👍🏼
I am also interested in how you fix sharpness. Would definitely love a video about that 😊
Thank you very much for this great video. I'm still new to the Leica world, I've had my Q3 43 for a month and I think it's brilliant and I'm really enjoying it. I have also watched all your videos about the Q3 and Q3 43. As I also love macro photography, this video came just at the right time. I hadn't heard or seen anything about this additional lens before. Great comparisons, great Lightroom crops. Simply perfect. I will buy the Elpro E52 after watching your video. Keep up the fantastic work. I'm happy to be a subscriber to your channel and look forward to more in the future. Best wishes from Germany!
@@smlmusic518 Many thanks! Great you enjoyed the video and great you have your own Q3 43 already, happy shooting and my best wishes to you in Germany!
Sehr hilfreiches Video! Ich liebäugele schon länger mit der Q3 43, fand aber die "Makro"-Eigenschaften nicht so beeindruckend. Für mich ist das wichtig und daher macht das Elpro E52 schon einen großen Unterschied. Ohne dieses Video hätte ich vermutlich nie davon erfahren 😃.
Many thanks for another informative video
@@astudent1109 My pleasure, glad you liked it!
The improvement you were able to make to the corner softness by post processing was astonishing. Would you share how you did that??
Using Lightroom Classic. Plus some plug-in's from a bunch of software providers. Its indeed remarkable what can be done in post-processing these days!
@@mathphotographer Do I need to buy some extra plugins in order to improve the corner sharpness or can I achieve a similar result by only using Lightroom classic? I want to consider the extra purchases because I dont want to buy into more subscription models than necessary. Thanks in advance :)
Wow. Das ändert wirklich vieles. Super erklärt! Ich bin davon ausgegangen, dass hier ein marginaler Unterschied zu sehen sein wird, aber es ist verdammt krass. Danke fürs zeigen.
@@eugenheller4182 Schön, dass Du das Video endlich angeschaut hast :) Yes - the Elpro 52 changes EVERYTHING.
Than you so much for this video - I shall be purchasing this!
Indeed, it is a handy accessory that is easily carried!
Fully agree, glad you find it useful too.
❤well, this is a Math lesson ‼️😂 I love the magnifying glass by Leica 🥰🥰‼️ Thanks .
Did you keep the UV filter attached as an interstitial planar lens element, pushing your macro lens adapter out further? I wonder how it would look without the UV filter changing the lens group interstitial distances.
I kept the UV filter on the lens, protection :)
@mathphotographer but fixed macro element atop UV filter, instead of directly to lens body?
@ Does not make a difference in real life, its ok to mount it on top of the UV filter. Best case you could view the UV filter as a thin extension tube :)
THX for the input with the Leica Elpro E52, i use the Raynox DCR-250. Its also in the Center very sharp and much cheaper, for Insects perfekt 🙂
I’ve been doing this too. Pretty amazing
Da freue ich besonders drauf!
Danke Wolfgang, ich hoffe, das Video hat Dir gefallen.
@@mathphotographer Ja, auf jeden Fall. Habe das ELPRO 52 schon länger aber nie "richtig" verstanden, Nun, dank Dir kann ich es endlich bewusst einsetzen :-)
@ Klasse, das freut mich. Das ist eine echt coole Nahlinse ... viel Freude beim Experimentieren!
Very impressive review
Hey, really good. An excellent presentation, noch einmal. The more presentations I see of yours on the Leica Q3 43 the more I am impressed that this is a pocket X2D + XCD 55V. This macro ability is fascinating and the camera does it so very well. But I have the 120 3.5 close focus for the X2D so I am not sure I will run down this path. Every time I look at one of your videos it costs me money. ;o). Noch einmal, vielen Dank.
Oooops - so sorry 😅 Do not want to burn holes in your wallet, honestly. But your comment is spot-on, this new Q3 is just really good and the Elpro makes it even more fungible.
Great video Mat😮 I’d be keen to know your view on which Camera you choose if you could only have one for macro -landscape photography out of the q3 -43mm and Sl3 -x2d100C 🤔
I love the Q3 43, will go with me to NYC again very soon. But if I had to decide for one camera only it would be the SL3 due to the flex I get from a system camera approach with so many lenses at my disposal.
And thanks for the kind feedback on my content, much appreciated.
@@mathphotographer Thanks and can’t wait for your next video 😊👍
I wonder if you could use a Q series camera to scan film? I was looking for videos but couldn't find...would be nice to see an experiment. THX
someone made a video ruclips.net/video/ZW_1c-8dyR8/видео.htmlsi=Tj9XEG_BQUh3KL0e
Would likely work but would not be my preferred solution 😅
Great, that is review I was waiting for to decide if the Leica Q3-43 fulfills my needs. It would be much easier and much more precise to measure magnification if one images a ruler! One import parameter I don't find for that combo is the free working distance i.e distance from front of the lens to subject which is important to know for lighting (natural or flash -too close and one fights shading). It is disappointing that there is a significant softness at the edges. With my Hasselblad XCD 45P and an achromatic closeup lens there is very little degradation except the extreme corners. One issue of all Leica cameras is that they have no focus bracketing mode (which works great albeit a little slow with my 907X) and I think nowadays focus stacking (via software) is an essential tool for macro photography
Many thanks for sharing, very good comment and spot-on!
It seems like the red on the truck change color when you adapted the close. Focus adapter lens the red was much more saturated, not sure if it’s exposure level.
This is again such a magnificent video! Thank you so much for the crystal clear explanations and the beautiful illustrations. I have been using the Elpro 52 with great success on my Q2.
Thank you so much!
The elPro 52 results seems better on the APO 43 than the regular Q3. Thanks..
You are very welcome. I was indeed very pleased about the outcome 😊
Very interesting video. I assume that this accessory will work on other cameras and lenses like the Hasselblad X2D and a XCD lenses. Did you use a brush with clarity enhanced in Lightroom to improve sharpness on corners?
On the other hand, Hasselblad has just released a new macro 9mm extension tube. From my experience, extension tubes on XCD lenses that have the rear element fixed, with no movement from its original position while focusing, give a poor performance on corners as they get far from the sensor focal plane. Will you test it in the near future?
Thank you and wishing your channel raises the amount of subscribers, it's well deserved.
Thanks for your comment and many thanks for your kind wishes for my channel, much appreciated. I will try out the Hasselblad extension tubes very soon, curious how this plays out on my X2D.
And yes, this is just a close-up lens and should work on other lenses with matching filter thread too. Never tried the Elpro on a non-Leica lens but probably should do 😊
@@mathphotographer you're welcome, looking forward for your test and review.
What “post processing” do you do for the edge sharpness?
Same, I'm also interested
Lightroom Classic with a bunch of plug-ins from different software vendors. Actually the process is more complex than it looks like to work only on edge sharpness and not overdoing sharpness in the center 😅
Probably worth a separate tutorial when the time is right 😊
@ i agree! T
Just got mine, I think 2.0 is already excellent.
Great!
Just to make sure, this can also be used on the leica Q and Q2 28 mm. Correct?
Long ago, there have been two different sets of Elpros: the older VIa, VIb, VIIa and VIIb and the newer Set Elpro 1-4. I used the Leica Elpro 3 with my (analog) Leicaflex SL 2 and the Elmarit-R 2.8/90mm (the third Version 1984-1997) and it delivered always very nice results. Of course for more convenience I had the Leica Makro-Elmarit R 2.8/60mm. Nevertheless I liked to combination of the 90mm Elmarit with the Elpro 3 more. And it was not about sharpness - this was in the Kodachrome-Days - but because of the color-rendering. The 90mm-Elmarit was "warmer" than the Macro-Elmarit, which was a little bit "cold" - corrected more neutral with a tendency to blue. It was a typical Mandler-Lens - designed by Walter Mandler, the one who gave us the 1.0 Noctilux - when nobody cared about pixel, but everything was about the best balance of contrast and colour. 🙂
Thanks for the Video, Math and have a nice Sunday - Greetings from Frankfurt am Main, Andreas
Great comment, like it a lot that you are sharing this! Have a great Sunday too and my best wishes to you in Frankfurt.
Had no idea Leica did sell those. Thought those aren't that high quality. I know Fuji has those for their X100 cameras, macro and teleconverter (on the front) Does Leica also have a Teleconverter on the front?
The Elpro was introduced in 2018 if I am not mistaken. Has not gotten any attention in the community so far which is not doing justice to this excellent close-up lens.
What about the non macro mode. I mean not in the macro mode?
@@royas95 If not in Macro Mode, you can focus in a certain range but is not really useful and will also not provide the great magnification,
...das probiere ich jetzt aber gleich mal aus. Danke für die ausführliche Besprechung. Daumen hoch. 09~11~2024
Herzlichen Dank!
Would the same effect hold true on a Q3 28mm lens?
funktioniert super
Over time, would this over stress the autofocusing motors?
Hermes Box as product platform? Man of Style!
@@HK-NYC Over time, everything will wear out. Especially those autofocusing gears which are all plastics.
@@henryt9254 sintered metal powder.
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Bad ... should actually work. Would be very happy to welcome you to the channel community 😅