This really does sound like the perfect Leica to me. M format and lens range, Q convenience. I’ve had the original Q and now have the M11, but am seriously tempted to sell that to buy this.
It kinda marries the best of both, so I imagine there's quite a few like you that might have this one solution instead of two others. Thanks for reading ✌🏾
Thanks, Gajan. How does the EVF perform when you rapidly need to acquire focus, and towards being lag-free and blackout-free? Nikon’s Z9 is the best EVF performance I’ve used. On an autofocus camera, EVF is great, and good on the Q3, but on an M, I find it hard to believe an EVF will be quicker and more accurate in fine focus than the rangefinder. What are your thoughts?
As background, I'm going on >40 years of using M cameras. Part of the M charm is an old dog not having to learn new tricks (having recently purchased a Fuji X-E5, I hate the menu hell which is the price paid for UTD tech). I continue to use the film MP which works as my Monochrome and initially was going to wait until the EV1 to upgrade from a M10.. I went instead with the M11-P with the realization that focusing with the rangefinder was going to be easier/faster compared to an EVF and the window frames work better for me in the 28mm-50mm range which I use 95% of the time. It will be interesting to see how the Leica community adapts to manual focus with an EVF exclusively.
This really does sound like the perfect Leica to me. M format and lens range, Q convenience. I’ve had the original Q and now have the M11, but am seriously tempted to sell that to buy this.
It kinda marries the best of both, so I imagine there's quite a few like you that might have this one solution instead of two others. Thanks for reading ✌🏾
Thanks, Gajan. How does the EVF perform when you rapidly need to acquire focus, and towards being lag-free and blackout-free? Nikon’s Z9 is the best EVF performance I’ve used. On an autofocus camera, EVF is great, and good on the Q3, but on an M, I find it hard to believe an EVF will be quicker and more accurate in fine focus than the rangefinder. What are your thoughts?
As background, I'm going on >40 years of using M cameras. Part of the M charm is an old dog not having to learn new tricks (having recently purchased a Fuji X-E5, I hate the menu hell which is the price paid for UTD tech). I continue to use the film MP which works as my Monochrome and initially was going to wait until the EV1 to upgrade from a M10.. I went instead with the M11-P with the realization that focusing with the rangefinder was going to be easier/faster compared to an EVF and the window frames work better for me in the 28mm-50mm range which I use 95% of the time. It will be interesting to see how the Leica community adapts to manual focus with an EVF exclusively.