X100v OVF

Jay A wrote:

Second, a very irritating fact about focusing with the OVF is the fact that if you use the corrected frame option (and you should so that you are positioning the camera correctly in order to compensate for parallax error), you cannot even see a correctly placed corrected frame until you first press down the shutter release to focus.

This is really interesting - you move around the AF point when using the OVF? I've never really considered this style of acquiring focus -- I only use center point with the OVF. I guess I'm just curious as to the advantages of using the OVF + moving around the AF?

For me, as a street photographer, the main benefit of the OVF is speed and not wanting to use the AF joystick. It's faster for me to center focus and recompose than move the AF around. Once you're moving the AF point around, the speed advantage of the OVF is kinda lost, at least for me, so I'm curious as to what it does for you?

From your thoughts, I wonder if the Leica Q isn't for you. I hear you though on wanting to see outside the framelines, which is an advantage of an OVF over nearly every EVF, with the exception of the Leica Q.

If you're really into that and want the EVF, I can recommend shooting 35mm on a Leica Q2, as the sensor and EVF still "sees" the 28mm view, but captures a jpg with the 35mm crop or records a 28mm RAW with a default crop of 35mm.