I totally agree with the 5Dm2 focus indicator red lights, those were SUPER helpful. And with the 5Dm3, while its a superior camera, BOY do I miss that feature, and it really adds some guess work. Why in the world did they do that? I forget if they fixed that back in the 5Dm4? That was annoying. But with eye detect and dual pixel, I think that will be much clearer than 5Dm3.
Canon changed fundamentally how the viewfinder info display works. The AF points and spot metering circle used to be physically etched onto glass, and each point individually lit by a small red led. The 5D3 and most Canon DSLRs since then instead have a transflective LCD screen, so-called "Intelligent Viewfinder", which is more flexible and configurable but makes it difficult to illuminate AF points individually. The 1DX2 does actually have individually lit AF points, but that requires some fancy extra optics in the viewfinder, next to the metering sensor, that project the indicator lights into the user's eye.
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