Black & white-only with no video or automatic controls? Welcome to the world of highly niche and expensive prestige cameras
is the fourth generation of the luxury German brand’s M-series Monochrom cameras produced over eleven years. It may sound incomprehensible, but there’s clearly a market for these highly niche and, indeed, expensive prestige cameras. I can’t help but think that the attraction lies within the build quality, beautiful design, excellent image quality and also the more traditional shooting experience Leica cameras so eloquently deliver, but I’m still baffled by them.
So, as smartphone camera technology continues to improve, will camera manufacturers need to focus more on the shooting experience and the process of capturing images? Many photographers are exploring old processes including Daguerreotypes and wet plate collodions, while others have begun shooting film for the first time.
The M11 Monochrom, like other M-series cameras, handles in a way that’s as close to a film camera as you can get with a digital camera. The emphasis is on the process and experience of taking photos using tactile manual controls to adjust camera settings, which is further enhanced by the compact manual focus lenses with aperture rings. In essence, this all combines to create a sense of being in control – making all of the decisions rather than relying on the camera to make them for you.
Image quality is excellent, and Leica’s claim that “You get images with an unprecedented rendition of even the finest details, an exceptionally natural-looking definition even in difficult light conditions and an extremely low noise even in the high ISO range”, is completely true.
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