WHY THE LEICA M10 | EVERYTHING A DIGITAL M SHOULD BE 

This is fascinating. Metering on the M240 drove me nuts. I always had comp at -1/3 to -2/3 a stop. It uses a grey slat on it's metal shutter curtain to meter off of. If that's true what you say about the M11 then that is almost worth the price of entry (not really though lol).

RAWs over wifi is awesome! Use it a lot for a quick share to insta

The M240 white balance was a pain! Used to annoy me a lot and it’s such basics! The M11 has fixed the over exposure issues now as it exposes off the sensor like other cameras have done for years

Cheers mate!!

This M10 has me looking at an M10-R 🤔 I need to avoid ever holding one 😂

Glad you enjoyed! Did have a Leica Q, ultimately the X100V was a camera that fitted that slot for me better so I’ve kept that instead. Same with the Griii, I’ve never owned it but I’d ’d rather have the X100V i think

Some of the new Leica glass does now focus at 0.3m I think the new 35mm APO is an example if you can stomach the price! But you have to use the EVF! I guess closer than 0.3m you’ll always have parallax issues! But Fuji get around this quite well by moving the frame within the finder Agree the ISO dial is pretty tough to move! And the M11 I think has fixed the highlight issue, again at a pretty steep price aha!

It’s crazy what a difference 4mm does isn’t it!

Thank you for the kind words!

Yes! Other lenses often do it but not to the same extent, or as regularly

I’ve actually be rocking the standard leather one that comes in the box. I typically use peak design though

yeah it appears many do have sealed but Leica won't call them weather sealed which is a little concerning

That is a video idea I’ve had for a while, Xtrans 1 vs Xtrans IV. I see a lot of people in forums speaking highly of the original

@@Goughie i thought it was a hype as well. But since I got my Xpro1 I haven't used my X-T4. Go figure 😉

Oh really! Coming from fuji raws that don’t work particularly well with Lightroom the DNGs have felt amazing. I do start with one of my own presets and work from there

@@Goughie Thanks! It's probably because it's been years since I played with any Raw files. The colour balance always looks off to me, even if I correct the WB. The last Raws I used was probably my Canon 5Dmk2, and before that my M9. I've been using Fuji OOC jpgs for years now, and they're just so easy to tune that last 5%.

Always! I’d never check them in

Different lenses, I’ve got the adapter so it’s a pretty easy video to make and would be interesting. Only down side is the same lens will have different focal lengths due to crops, but the colour side will be interesting!

@@Goughie yes, the crop will be a tad different with the FOV, but I’d be interested to see like you said colors and if they still carry the Leica “glow” or as they say the “micro contrast” I personally have been shooting with the Voigt 35f2 ultron m mount adapted to my XT4 and the results are amazing. Something about that lens. 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

Maybe! Not sure I miss it personally but can see why other might!

Hadn’t actually thought about that! Good shout, hard stops would be good

No they wouldnt look same, both cameras have different colour science, the other big difference specific to Fuji is that Fuji do not have a full frame sensor camera so there will always be differences there So I think to answer the question pretty sure both parts are important, sensor and lens; and maybe even the corrections happening in camera

@@Goughie Thanks Goughie, very interesting.

Never tried a newer digital hasselblad so hard to answer! I do mention the new lenses, they are just very expensive, the video is 50mm f1.4 at 70cm, you can sometimes get it to work, just need to step away from the table That’s a good video idea! I’ll add it to the list!

Megapixel wise? Mines 24

I’d understand if you un-subbed 😂

You certainly did!

Interesting question tbh! So this set up was what pushed me over my threshold of what I was happy to carry without insurance, the whole kit is now insured with specialist insurance There is definitely no “need” when it comes to Leica!

I went with Ripe, but I can’t endorse them, was easy enough to sign up but haven’t made a claim Photoguard we’re the other one that seemed to have great reviews

Interesting spot!

It’s partly down to user error and the spot metre, the M11 apparently fixes it 😂

@@Goughie not really.. shot the m11 and a fuji at the same event. Talent had a white suit jacket. Fuji’s dr400 mode created hilights with detail and color, with the highlight tone giving me a filmic roll off on the highlights. The m11 had no detail in the highlights and even clipped highlights. “Well why didn’t you underexpose the shot!?!” Because I’m not going to shoot incorrectly and have underexposed images to accommodate a shortcoming in the camera that simple software can fix. Fuji dr 400 does this. Even canon has a highlight priority mode just for wedding dresses that would clip in wedding photos without it. What would you do? Underexpose any image with the bride in it? 😱 The client would think you are nuts as you try to explain to them how you would fix it in post. Yeah right. There’s no reason why the exposure can’t be slid down a few stops in the dynamic range curve and have the software raise the mind tones and blacks. This would give digital sensors the headroom where max white would be at 80% of the max range, not 100. Anything over that is read as “whiter than white” in software, data retain, and interpreted with a curve to provide a falloff instead of a hard clip. Just like film. The cost? Some noise in the black…also just like film…something easily corrected with NR software. Unlike clipped highlights. Leica, please do something like this!

Don’t suggest that 😂 this M10 has me looking at the M10-R, I’ve been avoiding anything and everything about the M11

@@Goughie ….oh did I mention selling the m10 to get the m11? 🤣🤣😱