Should you buy a Leica Q in 2025? + Leica Q Presets

Is it a good idea to buy a Leica Q in 2025? This fixed lens digital Leica camera is 10 years old yet the price never changes! Is the Q that good and worth it vs the Q2 / Q3? I bought one so this Leica Q review shares many Leica Q photos and Leica Q presets for Lightroom.

• Leica Q vs Q2 vs Q3 comparison
• Leica Q2 Monochrom
• Leica Q343 YouTube review
• Presets for all Leica Q cameras

Only a matter of time! Leica Q

A few years back Leica Mayfair in London kindly leant me a Leica Q camera to test. Even if I didn’t admit it at the time the Leica Q had a lasting impact. Roll forward to today and after testing another Leica Q I finally pulled the trigger to purchase this amazing camera as my primary wedding camera.

Should you buy a Leica Q in 2025?

The Leica Q camera was release in 2015 so it is now 10 years old. If you’ve been watching the Leica Q camera price over the last few years it never really changes. That says a lot about this Leica camera so perhaps it is worth it. Let’s compare the prices to other models.

Leica Q price (2025)

If we compare the 3 Leica Q camera models, here are the approximate used prices as the time of writing in 2025.

• Leica Q price (used) ~ £2000
• Leica Q2 price (used) ~ £3000
• Leica Q3 price (used) ~ £4000
• Leica Q3 price (new) ~ £5400

Comparison: Leica Q vs Q2 vs Q3

How good is the Leica Q compared to newer models? Actually very good! I did some side by side testing of all 3 camera and you can see the stats and results here – Leica Q vs Q2 vs Q3 comparison.

How does the Leica CL vs Leica Q compare?

As someone that own both the Leica CL and the Leica Q I was keen to do a test. I nicknamed the Leica CL my mini Leica Q! See the full Leica CL vs Leica Q article where I compare both cameras.

Best digital Leica camera? Leica Q vs M vs SL vs CL

Is the Leica Q camera the best digital Leica system? We have 4 option and I own all of them:

• Leica Q
• Leica M
• Leica CL
• Leica SL

Click these links to see reviews of each cameras in each system. The question is, what is the best Leica camera series for you? See this video where I share the pros and cons of each camera system.

Tempted by the Leica Q2M Monochrom?

So by this stage your heart is set on buying a Leica Q camera. Then your unhelpful best friend plants the seed in your head, what about the black and white only Leica Q2M Monochrom camera? Great camera no question but can you cope with never having any colour photos?

Leica Q photos

If you want to see what is possible with the Leica Q, below I share many Leica Q photos. I’ve done Leica Q portraits (as a model photography), Leica Q weddings (amazing tool for wedding FYI!), product photos, travel photography, bokeh shots and more. See details below for how I edit if you are looking to speed up your workflow.

Lightroom presets for Leica Q cameras

Once I bought the Leica Q camera I needed a quick way to edit my RAW files. I take around 300+ images on a typical model shoot and over 1000+ images on most wedding days. I batch edit my RAW files via Adobe Lightroom so I wanted to make 4 presets to cover most eventualities.

Lightroom presets for the Leica Q camera

For each digital camera I use I develop a Lightroom preset pack that applies a base edit in 1 click. My process is to make a series of colour and black and white profiles and then see which I use the most. The top 4 get exported and I make those available for you to download here.

MrLeica Leica Q Presets Pack

My Leica Q preset pack consists of 4 presets

• MrLeica-LeicaQ-BW1
• MrLeica-LeicaQ-BW2
• MrLeica-LeicaQ-Col1
• MrLeica-LeicaQ-Col2

Before and after example images

For each preset I will include unedited RAW files and RAW + preset (with slider display for comparison). Stay with me until the end and I will include some final Photoshop edits too.

1) MrLeica Leica Q BW1

BW1 is my most used preset of the 4. It works well for me for photos shot in high contrast lighting. This preset pulls the shadow detail to render a lower contrast, perhaps more filmic look. It worked well with all models and all skin tones and great for weddings too.

(Left) RAW file, (Right) RAW + Preset

More photos with this preset applied to the RAW file –

2) MrLeica Leica Q BW2

BW2 is my second most used preset. It gives more contrast, perhaps more pop and vignetting to focus the attention to the centre of the frame. I find I use this the most with photos shot on cloudy days with lower contrast.

(Left) RAW file, (Right) RAW + Preset

More Lightroom exports with this preset applied to the RAW file –

3) MrLeica Leica Q Col1

Col1 will give your photos greater colour saturation and more pop, hopefully adding life to any photo. It pulls the shadow details to give a bright vibrant image.

(Left) RAW file, (Right) RAW + Preset

Photo with this preset applied to the RAW file –

4) MrLeica Leica Q Col2

Col2 is my least used of the 4 presets and gives a more muted colour pallet. (I tend to prefer more pop but that doesn’t suit every occasion!) This preset works well in bright conditions to recover the shadow details and where the colours out of camera already look colourful.

(Left) RAW file, (Right) RAW + Preset

Photos edited with Leica Q LR preset

Here are some final edits (finished in Photoshop) using the Lightroom preset to get me 98% of the way there. See if you can guess which preset I used!

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