The Leica Leitzphone powered by Xiamo Blog

Decided to get a new to me Leitzphone. I've been looking for way to freshen up my gig photography as my work has been getting a bit samey. Wanted to shake it up a bit. Had a look at the Leica rangefinder and unfortunately had to move on from there quickly. 😊 But saw the phone and thought that might be the way to go.

There's not much guidance out there for the camera. The link on the Leica page for the Quick Start Guidance only takes you to the safety information. The Xiamo sites appears to be no better. So the intention of this page/blog is to go through my setting up of the camera and my experiences. I also have the Xiaomi 17 Ultra Photography Kit Pro which I'll go through as well. I'll say right here that I'm loving both of them.

Settings

Once in Setting for the phone, there isn't an immediate one for the camera. Type camera in the search box at the top and that will bring it up. Should be the top one. Go into to that to amend the settings. I'm not going to say what you should have. The camera does reset to it's default settings when camera is closed. To sort that, tap on the General Tab, Preserve Settings and choose the options there that you want. They include remembering the last camera mode and Leica filter you used.

When you do go into Settings, you'll see that there an option for the Camera ring. Straight off, there seems to be a lot of people on YouTube saying that ring is quite twitchy and will activate the camera when you don't want it. Be that while in your pocket or you are using the phone. Personally, I'm not having any issues with that. You can use the ring to activate the camera and you can choose which mode it opens on with that (Photo, Video, Portrait, Pro, Fastshot, Document or Leica Essential). Select Camera ring features and you can choose what the ring does for each of those camera modes. Options are continuous zoom, switch focal length, EV (Exposure compensation/bracketing) or Filter.

More coming. Oh so much more....... 😊