Interestingly, the Leica branding is left off this model. It's not actually that heavy by modern camera standards, at just 660g, but the body is quite small, which makes it feel very 'dense'. This camera is unmistakably a Leica, with a solid, heavy metallic body that looks and field that it is precision engineered, and hand assembled, and that might even be worth its reassuringly expensive price tag if you're feeling generous. (Image credit: Digital Camera World) Build and handling If that's what you want, you should look at the mirrorless Leica SL2 instead, or maybe one of the Leica D-Lux collaborations with Panasonic (essentially premium Panasonic compacts rebadged and reskinned for Leica). They might be expensive, but these Leica lenses are so small that you wonder how modern mirrorless lenses got so big.Īnd there's no video mode. We should also mention the Leica M bayonet mount, the quality of the Leica M lenses and their cost (high). The rear screen does offer a live view with a focus peaking option, but it's still manual. Instead, you focus using a direct vision viewfinder and a secondary 'ghost' image that you line up with the main image by turning the focus ring on the lens. It's like a return to the old days of black and white photography.Īlso like a return to the old days is the rangefinder focusing. With the M10 Monochrom, if you want black and white 'contrast' filter effects, the only way is to screw actual filters on to the front of the lens – but you will not get any channel noise/artefacts when you do it. With a regular camera, you can adjust the red, green and blue channels to simulate the effect of tradition black and white filters, but you will get channel noise and artefacts which get worse with the strength of the adjustment. So what might seem like deliberate perversity – a camera restricted purely to black and white – actually has a very important very technical basis. Regular RGGB bayer sensors create processing artefacts you can't remove, even if you convert to black and white. It's not like an ordinary camera with the color 'disabled'. This is not like the 'black and white' mode on a regular camera. This means that each photosite captures only luminance (brightness) information, which in turn means that its images do not require the color interpolation needed with the red/green/blue pixel 'bayer' sensors used by almost all other cameras.
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The Leica M10 Monochrom has a custom-made 40-megapixel monochrome full frame sensor with no low-pass filter and – crucially – no color filter array. (Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World) Key features You do get aperture-priority exposure, but there's no autofocus and the viewfinder doesn't even offer through-the-lens viewing. Innovative baffle systems for the suppression of stray light guarantee optimum reduction of reflections and maximum contrast.With Leica M rangefinders, you're paying for engineering, not gadgets.
SCHOTT HTTM (High Transmission) glasses - already used in the Leica Ultravid HD-Plus optical design - ensure amazingly brilliant colours and a high transmission.
They unite the best of the latest and most innovative technologies to create a new pinnacle of excellence. The real milestones however are set by the mechanical and optical design of the new Leica family of binoculars. A patented, hardness class 8 surface coating provides additional protection for all exposed metal surfaces of the robust magnesium body. The rubber armoring has outstanding grip, absorbs impacts, prevents slipping, and simultaneously lends the body of the binoculars a wonderfully comfortable feel. The binocular tubes can be easily grasped with one hand and, thanks to the short construction length, the weight is centered on the palm and allows for fatigue-free observing. Ideal for every walk of life, the new Leica NOCTIVID binoculars set new standards with their design alone. The Leica Noctivid glasses are compact in size, stylish, and elegant, but nevertheless unbelievably robust and resilient. More than a century of expertise in optical design, microscopes and cameras are the basis upon which Leica has created a new generation of Leica binoculars: the Noctivid.