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Leica Q

Leica Q Focusing Issues

Autofocus coverage

Autofocus sensor coverage is excellent, offering focus points right out to all four corners. Unfortunately those focusing points are rather large (did I miss something?!), and far too large an area for selective focus (for example, encouraging the camera to focus on the iris of the eye).

Because the focus area is so large, it’s impossible be pinpoint the desired portion of the subject. Testing this theory repeatedly revealed that the Q can be shown to focus on the subject or the background depending on where focus starts, even with a near object largely dominating 90% of the focus spot area. This can be a problem in 3D scenes where there maybe a branch or similar object upon which one wants to focus. All cameras suffer from such behaviors, but an overly large focusing spot is problematic.

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