Manual Focus and X-Pro

bastibe wrote:

So lately I've been thinking about the analog rangefinder I had a while ago. Something about the window viewfinder and the manual focusing experience is calling to me.

Yet I also know that analog is just too much hassle, and a digital rangefinder is too expensive. So, that leaves the X-Pro. But how does one focus manually with the OVF? I assume you can't use he digital split prism or focus peaking with the OVF?

And more generally, how do you deal with the parallax? When I tried an X100T a while ago, I kept missing focus on headshots particularly. How can you tell from the OVF whether the camera focused on the head, instead of the background?

My Voightlander 35 f1.2 X lives on my Pro3.  Since this lens is chipped on the Pro3 it is parallax  corrected in the OVF.  I always use the OVF.  That is the area in the focus box is what is really in the focus box.  Because of that the ERF is very useful for manual focus.  True on the ERV and a magnified version of the focus box off the sensor appears  in the lower right hand corner of the EVF.  I find that with this lens I can focus the Pro3 about as fast as I did my Leica rangefinder and that's pretty fast.

In the ERF box, the MF focus aids are present, i.e., focus peaking, micro screen, split image, etc.  The ERF also works with Fuji lenses since they are parallax corrected in the OVF.

With non chipped lenses - well the camera does not know the distance so cannot parallax correct the OVF.