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Because Leica wants to stay close to the frameline experience of the Leica M.  And: The sensor will record the full frame anyway, the lines are nothing more than a framing aid.  

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It really should be an option. Framing at the larger crops becomes quite unwieldy. Partially because an EVF can never have the clarity of a rangefinder OVF, which is just so much crisper, especially when only viewing a small portion. I agree that it is nice to have the framelines, but it would also be nice to be able to see the cropped in areas, particularly if you generally like to photograph with a 35mm view in mind, for example.

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41 minutes ago, Stuart Richardson said:

It really should be an option. Framing at the larger crops becomes quite unwieldy. Partially because an EVF can never have the clarity of a rangefinder OVF, which is just so much crisper, especially when only viewing a small portion. I agree that it is nice to have the framelines, but it would also be nice to be able to see the cropped in areas, particularly if you generally like to photograph with a 35mm view in mind, for example.

I agree.  At least with the Q3 (I'm not sure about firmware updates on the Q2) you can also see your grid lines within the frame lines.  It makes things a little easier.  But I agree, it should be up to the user.

As far as the argument for being able to see things before they enter the frame, the area around the frame lines doesn't need to be as large as it is with the 75mm and 90mm crops.

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On 9/8/2024 at 10:04 AM, Dr. G said:

As far as the argument for being able to see things before they enter the frame, the area around the frame lines doesn't need to be as large as it is with the 75mm and 90mm crops.

That would be your opinion.

In the film days I had no issue with the frame lines in my M4 cameras.  Nor in my Q.

Though I will agree it would likely be easy enough to make it an option.  But as said before…no one here can do this, so fly it by Leica.

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On 9/8/2024 at 5:09 PM, bobtodrick said:

Because in many situations (such as street) it is handy to see what is about to enter the frame before it actually does.

yeah but that is only useful when there is one step more visible ( 28 mm viewfinder with 35 mmframelines or 35 mm viewfinder with 50 mm framelines  etc etc. if zoomed to 75 or 90 it is quate useless to see the total 28 mm image or even worse .

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12 minutes ago, jjroroek said:

yeah but that is only useful when there is one step more visible ( 28 mm viewfinder with 35 mmframelines or 35 mm viewfinder with 50 mm framelines  etc etc. if zoomed to 75 or 90 it is quate useless to see the total 28 mm image or even worse .

Have lived it with my M's for over 40 years...worked fine.

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On 9/8/2024 at 5:26 PM, JNK100 said:

It's not difficult for Leica to do this. It is.by design.

Yes. Bad design...

Legacy, that menace... If people wanted an M, they would get an M for God's sake... Also, they can just make it an option for us M-disrespectful folk and be done with it. 

Having said that, now that I have jumped ship to Hasselblad after having the Q2 as my only camera for a while, they decided to address two of my main concerns, i.e. the tilting screen and the very wide lens. Kudos for listening to customers! This Q3 43 looks like one hell of a camera, much more capable than the previous iterations.

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