Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

[Ian]

After last week's news about their new black and white digital M-series camera and my reservations about a mono-only sensor, I got to use the Leica M Monochrom today. Here's a sample image:



Taken with a pre-production Leica M Monochrom fitted with the new Apo-Summicron-M 50mm f/2 lens. My obliging model, by the way, is Josh Waller from ePhotozine, base ISO-320 and f/2.0 at 1/250th sec. Basically this is out of the camera (DNG RAW file) and resized in Lightroom and that's it - no processing.

The bokeh from the lens fantastic and it is clearly very sharp wide open. Here's a 100% crop:



Look out for my hands-on feature article coming very soon

Ian

[joshwa]

Re: Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

Looks like the perfect model - all that hair should let you see a lot of detail

[Ian]

Re: Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

Looks like the perfect model - all that hair should let you see a lot of detail

The man himself - hey Josh, nice to see you here

Enjoying your train home to Sheffield tonight?

Ian

[joshwa]

Re: Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

It's got decent WiFi - so yes

[John Perriment]

Re: Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

Hi Josh,

The question is, did you take a shot of Ian?

Ian, has this brief encounter with the camera changed your opinion on the B&W only sensor?

Base ISO 320 - this seems to be getting higher all the time. Are camera companies in collusion with ND filter manufacturers?

[joshwa]

Re: Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

I did take a photo of Ian, but he insisted the Leica camera was in the shot with him, so I had to use his OMD instead

[John Perriment]

Re: Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

I did take a photo of Ian, but he insisted the Leica camera was in the shot with him, so I had to use his OMD instead

What a poseur, I thought he didn't even like the Leica. Some people act strange when they see red spots in front of their eyes!

What do you think of the OMD Josh?

[Bob Ross]

Re: Had a play with Leica's M Monochrom

Hi Ian,
So, you have had a taste of a 50 Cron ....yummy All versions of the 50 Cron are sweethearts. Mine is a version 3 made in 1980 in Canada. I've had it since 1984 and after 28 years, I almost know the lens.
Do be careful, Ian, handling Leica M cameras and lenses often results in an incureable desire to own and possess........
Bob