Leica Q2 User Manual - Page 80/153

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EXPOSURE CONTROL

(FUNCTIONS FOR AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE)

EXPOSURE SIMULATION

With factory settings in place, the brightness of the screen image

in the three automatic exposure modes PP, SS and AA matches the

relevant exposure settings

You can now assess and control the eﬀect of the relevant exposure

setting on the image before taking the picture.

This function is also available for the manual exposure setting MM:

▸ Select Exposure PreviewExposure Preview in the main menu

▸ Select P-A-SP-A-S (only in automatic, aperture priority and shutter

speed priority mode) or P-A-S-MP-A-S-M (also for manual setting)

Notes

• Depending on ambient lighting conditions, the brightness of the

screen image may diﬀer from that of the actual pictures, despite

the settings described above. The screen image will appear

considerably darker than the – correctly exposed – picture. That

is particularly the case in long-term exposures.

This will apply for as long as the object brightness and the exposure setting

don’t result in excessively low or high brightness values and as long as the

internal exposure setting is not greater than

⁄

s.

METERING MEMORY LOCK

We often want to arrange important subject elements outside the

center of the picture for reasons of picture composition and these

elements may sometimes be very bright or very dark. Cen-

ter-weighted metering and spot metering, however, mainly capture

an area in the center of the image and are calibrated to an average

gray scale value. In that case, the metering memory lock function

– in PP, SS and AA exposure modes, and the AF modes spot/ﬁeld

metering – initially allows a metering of the main object and to

store the relevant settings until the ﬁnal image section is set.

With the factory settings in place, both lock functions are done via

the shutter button. You can, however, divide the lock functions

between the shutter button and the Zoom/Lock button or assign

both to the Zoom/Lock button.

AEL (Auto Exposure Lock)

The camera stores the exposure value. The exposure value can be

placed on another object independent of the focus setting.

AFL (Auto Focus Lock)

The camera stores the focus setting. That makes it easier to focus

when exposure values change.

AEL/AFL

This option allows the camera to store the exposure value and the

focus setting when the Zoom/Lock button is pressed and held.

Picture Mode

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