M10 Focus Peaking

[albertospa]

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I have a question about the M10's focus peaking.
I cannot adjust the focus peaking sensitivity. I can adjust the color and magnification, but the sensitivity is too high and peaking appears even in areas that are not perfectly focused.
I had Sony a7 and now I have a Nikon Z6 and I can adjust the peaking sensitivity to three positions.
Is it also possible with the M10?

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[jdlaing]

Page 166 in the manual. In short.........no.

[farnz]

4 hours ago, albertospa said:

I have a question about the M10's focus peaking.
I cannot adjust the focus peaking sensitivity. I can adjust the color and magnification, but the sensitivity is too high and peaking appears even in areas that are not perfectly focused.
I had Sony a7 and now I have a Nikon Z6 and I can adjust the peaking sensitivity to three positions.
Is it also possible with the M10?

Hi Alberto,

You might be using too small an aperture producing a deep depth of field where a lot of things in the scene will naturally be in focus and the camera is struggling to tell what you're trying to focus on.  If you use a wide aperture (say, f/2, f/1.4, f/0.95) then you should find that only what you're focussing on shows the peaking.

Pete.

[albertospa]

10 hours ago, farnz said:

Hi Alberto,

You might be using too small an aperture producing a deep depth of field where a lot of things in the scene will naturally be in focus and the camera is struggling to tell what you're trying to focus on.  If you use a wide aperture (say, f/2, f/1.4, f/0.95) then you should find that only what you're focussing on shows the peaking.

Pete.

This is a far too obvious observation.
Unfortunately, the focus peaking of the M10 is unreliable even at 1.4 as Steven rightly writes.
I can't believe Leica has accomplished all of this. Hope that can be fixed with new firmware.

[Matlock]

11 minutes ago, Steven said:

This is one more reason why the M had the potential to be my favorite camera but instead it’s my least used camera. Lately I’ve even considered to sell it and trade it against some mew lenses. 

Perhaps you are missing the point that the M10 (and other M cameras) are primarily Rangefinder cameras. If you decide that an EVF is what you really need then forget the M series.  

[albertospa]

36 minutes ago, Matlock said:

Perhaps you are missing the point that the M10 (and other M cameras) are primarily Rangefinder cameras. If you decide that an EVF is what you really need then forget the M series.  

Of course the M10 is a rangefinder camera!
But adding a feature like focus peaking adjustment would be a really big help, in some cases, that wouldn't affect the rangefinder function.