M11 Ev1: why not a rangefinder EVF?

[Tailwagger]

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11 hours ago, mikeamosau said:

Stick it in crop mode

As long as one is good with a 39 Mpx or 18Mpx result, indeed the M11 and presumably the EV1 already provide this ability to see beyond the frame via the digital zoom function. The issue IIRC, assuming one is shooting DNF, is that while the in camera image is cropped, the uploaded result will include the excess pixels.  It would be nice is Leica provided an option via Adobe/C1 to crop the DNG to the intended frame.

[Sharpdressed]

I would be happy just to keep the ovf and add a focus peaking led (just like old autofocus reflex cameras) that confirms perfect focus in the rangefinder patch using sensor data and focus peaking.

This would be simpler to implement and keeps the analog experience that I love in a Leica.

[SrMi]

4 hours ago, Tailwagger said:

As long as one is good with a 39 Mpx or 18Mpx result, indeed the M11 and presumably the EV1 already provide this ability to see beyond the frame via the digital zoom function. The issue IIRC, assuming one is shooting DNF, is that while the in camera image is cropped, the uploaded result will include the excess pixels.  It would be nice is Leica provided an option via Adobe/C1 to crop the DNG to the intended frame.

39 and 18MP modes are not crop modes; they are 'triple-resolution' modes. The issue with crop modes is that they effectively shrink the sensor, bringing with them everything that comes with using a smaller sensor.

[Tailwagger]

3 hours ago, SrMi said:

39 and 18MP modes are not crop modes; they are 'triple-resolution' modes. The issue with crop modes is that they effectively shrink the sensor, bringing with them everything that comes with using a smaller sensor.

I think you're confusing shooting modes with the digital zoom.  With DZ, DNGs remain stored at the selected shooting size, JPGS are cropped from the full sensor size.  And actually, I misspoke, the DNGs when edited will appear cropped  on upload via meta data.  (might have been a firmware update somewhere along the line, tried it on camera release, haven't since).  From the current M11 manual:

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