The 3-inch 1.036 million-dot touchscreen is crisp and clear making using Live View and reviewing images comfortable. There’s also a thumb dial that can be set to Live View zoom or exposure compensation for when shooting in aperture priority, with the latter being the most useful if you tend to shoot mostly in this mode. The back of the camera is equally minimalist with just a button for Live View, a Play button to review images, a menu button and a D-pad. The minimalist matte black design with just the shutter button, on/off switch, shutter dial and ISO dial on the top of the camera provide direct access to only the essential settings you need while shooting.Īperture control is provided using the manual aperture ring on lenses, and in terms of semi-automatic shooting modes, aperture priority is the only option alongside manual. It’s safe to say that the M10 Monochrom is more discreet than a camera costing a fraction of its $8,295 / £7,250 / AU$13,500 price tag. Of course, to the trained eye, there’s no mistaking it’s a Leica, but to the untrained eye, it’s simply a small black camera. This unassumingly simple design oozes self-confidence in a photographic world that’s all too often all about the brand that’s hanging around a photographer’s neck, rather than the images they take.
Blink, and you may even miss the fact it’s a Leica thanks to the omission of the iconic red Leica dot on the front of the camera top plate. Flash sync speed is 1/180s and is signified by a flash symbol on the shutter dial.Īs you’d expect from a German designed and engineered camera, the M10 Monochrom is a beautiful object in its own right. Shutter speeds range from 8 seconds to 1/4000s, with Bulb mode providing exposures up to 16 minutes when using a traditional screw-in cable release. The dynamic range of the sensor is just under 15 stops, and the ISO range extends from 160-100,000 natively, meaning that you can confidently shoot in even the lowest light conditions handheld with usable results. This is a significant upgrade on the 24MP M Monochrom (Typ 246) and makes the M10 Monochrom the highest resolution M series camera to date.
This means it can gather more light, produce sharper images and finer detail at higher ISO settings. The camera features a newly developed 40MP full-frame sensor with no color filter array or low pass filter, which can reduce the amount of light reaching the sensor and cause deflections. Sensor: 40MP B/W CMOS without colour and low-pass filter
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