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Hey, this is my first post here, regarding my first Leica, the Leica Q. After 1 week I feel more natural with this camera that I felt with the Sony A7 series after 2 years. That's coming from a Canon DSLR shooter. Anyway, I was preparing a couple images for printing today when I noticed something that concerns me, and I wanted to know if anyone else can chime in on this issue. Viewing at 100%, there's unusual and obvious pixelation, mostly around diagonal lines on a flat background. This isn't just pixels on my monitor, as it shows up the same on screens of varying pixel density. It also shows up when printing at native resolution, which is totally not okay (printed file was .dng converted to .tiff). It's dramatic enough that you don't have to be a pixel peeper to notice it. The pixelation on the same image out-of-camera JPEG looks a little different but is more disastrous. What's especially weird is that it doesn't seem to be an issue across the whole frame, but that may just be because the colors elsewhere in the frame are different. This is also not the only file with this problem, so I have a hard time believing it's corrupted (Hoodman SD card, FYI). I haven't seen this kind of pixelation from either my Canon or Sony, and it freaks me out a little bit. I attached a .jpg 100% crop. This is in between the center of the frame and the bottom left corner. It was shot at f8, 1/250, ISO 100. I couldn't find this issue reported anywhere online. If you guys have heard of it, I'd greatly appreciate being pointed in the right direction.