The Leica Q2 as a travel camera by Olivier Glod (Website | Flickr | Twitter):

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Scotland with my best friend’s brother and took along the Leica Q2, the Fuji GFX 50R and the DJI Mavic 2 PRO. While a separate blog post about the complete trip will follow later, I thought I would start off with one focusing on the Leica Q2 and how it performed when used as a travel camera.

First things first; why did I take the Q2 along, when I already had the GFX50R with the 32-64mm f/4 in the bag?

Well, you could certainly use the chainsaw you just took down a tree with to also slice and dice some ham, as well as butter your bread, but it wouldn’t be as efficient, nor as enjoyable, as using the appropriate cutlery now, would it? 😉

I mostly planned to use the Q2 when I wanted to remain discreet and / or couldn’t be bothered to setup a tripod, but rather do some run ‘n gun type of shooting. Spoiler alert: this worked WONDERFULLY well!

Let’s start at the beginning: our trip was a week long and we spent two nights in Edinburgh, one in Fort William (on our way up to the Isle of Skye), three in Portree and one in Pitlochry (on our way back down to Edinburgh airport).

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