Leica M EV1 First Review - It's Bad

[StanM]

A Q in M clothes … sounds like a James Bond movie without all the hi tech goodies.
As much as I like Leica, this one will not make me abandon my beloved M Monochrom.
If I want a high mp camera with evf using Leica lenses then I use my Z7 with the TTartisan 6 bit adapter which at least gives me the green square focus confirmation although it’s also fooled by depth of field.

 

[shawn]

I think I'd prefer "inverted focus-peaking", if that makes sense. Leave the in-focus/edge-detected parts of the image as-is, but overlay subtle pixel shading or zebra lines on the unsharp parts of the image. That'd convey the same information without cluttering up the part of the frame where I'm most likely to be looking. Does any camera maker offer something like that?

Not this but another way around having info in the center is a magnified focus box (with or without peaking) in the corner of the screen. And show that for whatever focus point is selected in the viewfinder. XPro2 can do this with its OVF as well as a number of x100 models. Think some of Fuji XT models do this in a dual display mode too.

 

[Rogier]

Would be cool is Leica would create a rangefinder patch to confirm focus in de EV.