Leica FOTOS

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Title title of my review sums up what this $50 /year app has to offer. I just received the new SL2 which by the way is Leica’s best offering to date. No disrespect to the M or S users. The SL2 camera menu has a dedicated Leica fotos tab which prompted me to purchase this app. There is no way to upload photos to the iPhone wirelessly from the SL2. The app mentions a blurb about full Lightroom mobile integration. Seriously I can’t fathom how it’s possible. Once your phone is Bluetoothed to the SL2 it it is rendered useless to do anything else (receive calls nor texts). The UI has a simple layout with no tools besides a gigantic touch shutter button which can also be used to record video. That’s it. No play No import and no links for Lightroom nor accessibility to get HELP. Since this app is a subscription service $50/year for perpetuity I d recommend buying the wired remote which sells for a one time charge of $175 and do everything this app can do and still have a functioning iPhone. I’ll try getting a refund. Cheers and good day.

The good news is that this app was so much easier the pair with my iPhone 11 than the original C-Lux Camera app. The bad news is that you eliminated many features that the original app had such as Leica Live (camera zoom), unless I missed finding it on the new app. It seems a step backward eliminating features that were currently being used. I realized that you added digital editing with Lightroom, but you’re unfortunately competing with a stiff competition of ease of use with iPhone Pro camera and so many digital editing apps as well as wifi. I find myself photographing more with the new iPhone Pro camera than my Leica as I always have my iPhone camera on me at all times.

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Takes so long to start up and connect that the moment you are trying to capture gets lost. Once connected, trying to load and view photos is completely unusable. The loading of the photos is so slow that I am blown away this is a publicly released product. It’s faster to pull out your laptop and go the old route. Extremely disappointed and angered that they can’t get this right.

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Leica should be embarrassed. A company that says it embodies simplicity and superlative quality? Really? This app is possibly the worst app I have ever downloaded. It hardly ever connects to the camera. Delete. Un- pair, re-pair. On. Off. Over and over again. And even when it connects it says there are no photos on the camera to download..... You pay USD 20,000+ for the camera and lenses and they won’t even give you an app you can use Leica M10 and Q2 and iPhone XS Max user.

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Leica used to be a great company. If you wanted the best you paid for it and you got something that, although crazy expensive, was unrivaled. Today you have to pay an obscene amount of money to get something with less functionality of pretty much any other camera maker. Now they have decided to release a buggy app and squeeze their loyal customer base for basic functionality everyone else offers for free. This is how companies go bankrupt.