No they are not. It will take a while until EVFs have the same dynamic range and contrast as an OVF. Also, most EVF cameras do not have a quick way to simulate OVF and too often one is stuck with an image too dark to frame when highlight need protection (requires underexposure).
If a Leica M-mount camera with an EVF is launched I think it exceptionally unlikely to have an optical finder too.I read through the whole thread. I agree with those who said "if it doesn't have a messucher than it isn't really a Leica M.
My M10-M and M10-R already have an optional EVF if I need through-lens focusing/viewing. I fit it whenever I'm doing precision work that requires such capability. I don't need it in the general case of most of my photography, and if I did I'd buy a Leica L-mount camera and fit an M to L mount adapter (which I did for years with the Leica SL and CL bodies). This affords access to all three lens lines: L-mount, M-mount, and R-mount with the appropriate adapters.
Rather than building an "M11-V", I'd prefer if Leica built a full-frame CL (call it a CL2-FF), styled to have the same body shape and controls as an an M. I'd buy one of them.
G
There's a short piece on this here:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-...ct-body-hints-at-a-lower-price.1096170.0.html
I find this sentence particularly interesting: "A new function button is said to enable digital frame lines to be displayed in the viewfinder." This implies the VF is a dual optical/EVF gizmo, something like the one Fuji has used in their X-Pro models.
A quote from the allegedly leaked marketing materials backs this up: "Frame selection lever with dual FN functionality for viewfinder." This sounds like the frameline lever is now a two-position switch, not a button, offering either optical or electronic viewfinder options. Or maybe in optical mode it still is a frameline selector, and you push it in like a button to switch modes.
This then raises the question: if there's an optical VF mode but no rangefinder how do you focus "optically?" This can be done, of course. Various Nikon Z cameras have manual focus confirmation, as did the Pentax K10D I owned c. 2007. The Pentax allowed me to focus my 50mm f/1.2 wide open with excellent accuracy.
So if all this is correct info will the focus confirmation indicator be a green light or a red dot?
-Dave-
wow, it's pricey, would have thought $5-6k range. no video or ibis I presume.
Since when? We've been using EVFs for a long time and never needed 9 Mil. for any EVF to be "really easy to use". Just because we reach a level of technology doesn't mean all earlier tech. is unable to be used. Two million was great when that was the newest tech. for EVFs and those cameras still work perfectly fine. I believe that only two cameras offer EVFs over 9 million so you're proclamation that all previous digital cameras have non-usable EV Fs.............. nonsense Crazy talk.
That is not my experience. I have cameras with 9MP and 5MP cameras, and the resolution difference is the least important differentiator between them.
The latest rumor is 45g lighter.
What indication do you have for that claim?
For an M camera sans RF, resolution will be less important than the lack of digital noise for focusing in low light, especially with slow lenses, or fast ones focused at working aperture IMHO.
I had hoped to use Nikon’s manual focus confirmation with my M lenses but it only works with Z lenses. Apparently it needs certain info from the lens for this to work. What or why I can’t imagine. It would be nice if Leica could implement this though.There's a short piece on this here:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-...ct-body-hints-at-a-lower-price.1096170.0.html
I find this sentence particularly interesting: "A new function button is said to enable digital frame lines to be displayed in the viewfinder." This implies the VF is a dual optical/EVF gizmo, something like the one Fuji has used in their X-Pro models.
A quote from the allegedly leaked marketing materials backs this up: "Frame selection lever with dual FN functionality for viewfinder." This sounds like the frameline lever is now a two-position switch, not a button, offering either optical or electronic viewfinder options. Or maybe in optical mode it still is a frameline selector, and you push it in like a button to switch modes.
This then raises the question: if there's an optical VF mode but no rangefinder how do you focus "optically?" This can be done, of course. Various Nikon Z cameras have manual focus confirmation, as did the Pentax K10D I owned c. 2007. The Pentax allowed me to focus my 50mm f/1.2 wide open with excellent accuracy.
So if all this is correct info will the focus confirmation indicator be a green light or a red dot?
-Dave-
I understand some VC lenses work also.I had hoped to use Nikon’s manual focus confirmation with my M lenses but it only works with Z lenses. Apparently it needs certain info from the lens for this to work. What or why I can’t imagine. It would be nice if Leica could implement this though.There's a short piece on this here:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-...ct-body-hints-at-a-lower-price.1096170.0.html
I find this sentence particularly interesting: "A new function button is said to enable digital frame lines to be displayed in the viewfinder." This implies the VF is a dual optical/EVF gizmo, something like the one Fuji has used in their X-Pro models.
A quote from the allegedly leaked marketing materials backs this up: "Frame selection lever with dual FN functionality for viewfinder." This sounds like the frameline lever is now a two-position switch, not a button, offering either optical or electronic viewfinder options. Or maybe in optical mode it still is a frameline selector, and you push it in like a button to switch modes.
This then raises the question: if there's an optical VF mode but no rangefinder how do you focus "optically?" This can be done, of course. Various Nikon Z cameras have manual focus confirmation, as did the Pentax K10D I owned c. 2007. The Pentax allowed me to focus my 50mm f/1.2 wide open with excellent accuracy.
So if all this is correct info will the focus confirmation indicator be a green light or a red dot?
-Dave-
You need lenses with electronic contacts, like VC lenses for Z mount.I understand some VC lenses work also.I had hoped to use Nikon’s manual focus confirmation with my M lenses but it only works with Z lenses. Apparently it needs certain info from the lens for this to work. What or why I can’t imagine. It would be nice if Leica could implement this though.There's a short piece on this here:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Leak-...ct-body-hints-at-a-lower-price.1096170.0.html
I find this sentence particularly interesting: "A new function button is said to enable digital frame lines to be displayed in the viewfinder." This implies the VF is a dual optical/EVF gizmo, something like the one Fuji has used in their X-Pro models.
A quote from the allegedly leaked marketing materials backs this up: "Frame selection lever with dual FN functionality for viewfinder." This sounds like the frameline lever is now a two-position switch, not a button, offering either optical or electronic viewfinder options. Or maybe in optical mode it still is a frameline selector, and you push it in like a button to switch modes.
This then raises the question: if there's an optical VF mode but no rangefinder how do you focus "optically?" This can be done, of course. Various Nikon Z cameras have manual focus confirmation, as did the Pentax K10D I owned c. 2007. The Pentax allowed me to focus my 50mm f/1.2 wide open with excellent accuracy.
So if all this is correct info will the focus confirmation indicator be a green light or a red dot?
-Dave-
Manual focusing magnified seems easier with the 5MP EVF of X2D than the 9MP EVF of GFX 100 II.
I'm not sure how the Pentax K10D's focus confirmation worked—I presume it was contrast based—but the K mount 50/1.2 has no contacts to tell a camera what lens it is. Nikon may be "protecting" their native lenses, along with those of prefered partners like Cosina, via their implementation.
A negligible difference in my view with the cost of using more battery.
Dave,
