Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As far as I know, it always returns to the center after you take a photo and you have to use the joystick to move it. Since I almost never use manual focus, it's not a nuisance to me. Tina On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:21 AM Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:05 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > wrote: > > > > For those of us with bad eyes, digital zoom does offer one advantage: it > > lets me get a closer look at what the camera is pointing at. What I wish > > it did is to let me zoom the viewfinder but still capture the entire > > frame. But it doesn't, on any camera I've ever seen. > > You must not mean what I'm reading your words to mean. Because every > decent electronic-viewfinder camera I've used lets you magnify the > image to do manual focusing, and that operation does not change what > field of view the sensor captures when you push the take-a-picture > button. > > The Leica SL, for example ? push in on the little joystick thing on > the back, and it magnifies for manual focus. The joystick thing lets > you move the magnified area around in the frame. The only recurring > failure in the SL's user interface (and maybe I just don't know how to > get this to work ? Tina, as a real SL user, not an occasional renter > like me, is there a way to get the camera to do the right thing?) is > that after you take a picture, the position of the magnified bit keeps > resetting to the center of the frame, instead of staying where you > carefully placed it to magnify the important part of the current > composition on which you'd like to focus. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html> *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>*