Desmolicious wrote:
My Canon P did not have auto parallax correct. And yeah, the indistinct RF blob is one reason why I sold it.
I've been looking into this some more. The parallax correction is mentioned in the Canon P manual so it was definitely a feature, but I suspect the issue is that many people failed to heed the warning in the manual to set any longer lenses to their minimum focus distance before mounting, to avoid damaging the rangefinder mechanism. I've always been careful to do that myself for any lens over 50mm, but previous owners may not have done so. So my hypothesis is that someone damaged the rangefinder mechanism in such a way that focus continues to work but parallax correction is broken. The fact that a number of Canon P owners (including myself) don't have parallax correction on their cameras suggests this is something you should check with an owner before placing an order.