{"id":2141,"date":"2020-04-01T20:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2020-04-04T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T13:17:25","slug":"new-leica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/new-leica\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m trying to figure out if this is actually good news or what….?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LEICA M10 Monochrome<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As the title says, this is the new LEICA M10 Monochrome. It’s a B&W only, rangefinder camera made out of black (yes, just black), costing 8200\u20ac. Body only – the lens will cost 2350\u20ac. As they only make 8 or 9, I suppose this justifies the price…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with most things LEICA, this shoots \u00ab\u00a0taking the piss\u00a0\u00bb to new, almost stratospheric, heights. I mean, LEICA were the people who produced, a couple of years ago, a similar digital rangefinder WITHOUT A REAR SCREEN. I’ve often wondered why they bothered putting on a lens mount…or a shutter button…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure it’s very nice – I mean, it has to be at that price, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s another view – and it’s free…unlike the camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the same way that ANY camera owner will swear blind that their camera is the best, LEICA owners will extol the virtus till the cows come home – but it’s still a B&W digital camera, with no video, a 40 MP sensor and no autofocus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why is autofocus SO important? It’s all down to what you want to use the camera for. If you’re happy setting the lens at it’s hyper-focal distance and just pointing, why not? Or, spend time focusing through the minuscule viewfinder and match the two rangefinder images…again, why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for the sort of work I do, autofocus is vital – I would never be able to change scene and adjust a rangefinder sufficiently quickly – I would probably be able to use the camera for one in every 50 shots. In addition, I can let my camera worry about this while I concentrate on the scene or movement I’m looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it does look nice in black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just to introduce an equivalent which, sort of, brings things into focus, for almost exactly the same price, you can have a brand spanking new HASSELBLAD X1D ll 50c and the 35-75 lens – with autofocus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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X1D ll 50C + 35-70 lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And this one makes images with a larger sensor, both physically and by number of pixels, and in color or B&W…oh and it’s made from dark grey – much more class….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to figure out if this is actually good news or what….? As the title says, this is the new LEICA M10 Monochrome. It’s a B&W only, rangefinder camera made out of black (yes, just black), costing 8200\u20ac. Body only – the lens will cost 2350\u20ac. As they only make 8 or 9, I … <\/p>\n

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