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There are two sets of bright lines visible in the viewfinder. However, -3 to +3 diopter lenses are available to suit different photographers requirements. 73x and its standard dioptre setting is -0.5 diopter. Just like the M10 and M10-P, the M10 Monochrome’s viewfinder has a magnification of. There are also markings for Bulb and Automatic.Īs usual with a Leica M camera, the aperture is set using a ring on the lens. This is marked in whole stops 8-1/4000 sec. On the opposite of the M10 Monochrom’s top-plate there’s a shutter speed dial to set the exposure time. However, it can be left in the up position if you prefer. This dial has to be lifted before it can be rotated, which prevents it from being moved away from the selected setting.
#Leica m10 iso#
Meanwhile, the M setting is set via the menu to give a quick route to your favourite ISO setting. As you’d expect, A stands for automatic and there’s an option in the menu that allows you to set the maximum setting that you want to use along with the longest exposure via the menu. This has markings for ISO 160, 400, 800, 3200, 6400,12.5K M and A, but there are settings in-between. Like the M10 and M10-P, there’s a sensitivity dial on the far left end of M10 Monochrom’s top plate. It makes for a hefty camera that’s more likely to damage a wooden floor than the other way around if it were dropped. It makes the camera feel much more manageable in your hands than earlier incarnations of the Leica Monochrom.Īs with the M10-P, Leica has given the M10 Monochrom a die-cast magnesium chassis with a brass top and bottom cover. The same slimmed-down profile was used for the M10-P and it has been continued on to the M10 Monochrom. And it makes a huge difference to the way the camera feels. Leica slimmed down the M10 by 4mm in comparison with the M Typ 240 to make it the same thickness as the M-series film cameras. It’s also a touchscreen and you can tap on it to select the area to enlarge when you turn the lens ring to focus.Īlternatively, the M10 Monochrom is compatible with Leica’s 2.4Mp Leica Visoflex electronic viewfinder (EVF). Live Viewĭespite the lack of video capability, the M10 Monochrom’s 3-inch 1,036,800-dot screen on the back of the camera is still Live View enabled. Like the Leica M10-P that it’s based upon, the M10 Monochrom has a dampened shutter mechanism that makes it very quiet. Apparently, the camera’s fan base almost universally disliked that feature, so it has been omitted from the new camera. Unlike the last Leica Monochrom camera, the M10 Monochrom doesn’t have video functionality. However, the larger image size in comparisons with the M10-P means that the burst depth is just 10 raw files (DNG). There’s also a maximum continuous shooting rate of 5fps.
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This and the new sensor design enables a base sensitivity setting of ISO 160 – it’s ISO 320 in the previous Monochrom. Leica has paired the new 40Mp sensor with its Maestro II processing engine. That especially significant to a black and white camera as tone and gradation is what makes the images. In addition, Leica claims the dynamic range is close to 15Ev. That’s means they each produce a stronger signal and noise levels are kept down. Also, as there are no filters over the pixels, the gather more light. This means that rather than working in working in groups of four to generate a colour signal, each of the M10 Monochrom’s photo sites (aka pixels) produces a signal. That means that the camera is unable to distinguish colour and instead it doesn’t carryout any interpolation of colour, it just produces monochrome images.
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Inside the M10 Monochrom Leica has used a 40.89Mp sensor and, as I mentioned earlier, this has no colour filter array. Rotating the focus ring on the lens pulls these two images of the subject together until they overlie one another perfectly and focus is achieved.
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That means when you look in the optical viewfinder when the subject is out of focus, you see two ghostly versions of it. It’s not a rangefinder-style camera like the Fujifilm X-Pro3, it’s the genuine article. As a Leica M camera, the M10 Monochrom (Type 6376) is a rangefinder camera.