[Leica] New Leica!

[Tina Manley]

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.
>
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