Leica’s $9,195 M11 Monochrom camera lives in a gray area of expensive minimalism
by Antonio G. Di Benedetto from The Verge - All Posts on (#6ARR3)
You have to have a keen eye to tell the M11 Monochrom apart from the M10 Monochrom. Leica is looking to charm us with the beauty and mystery of black-and-white photography once again. The German camera maker is announcing the Leica M11 Monochrom, its first new offshoot of last year's 60-megapixel M11 and its fifth digital camera to only shoot black and white. Launching today alongside the blacked-out $9,195 camera is a new Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens, which focuses closer and has more aperture blades than the current model, selling for $4,495 in black or $4,795 in silver.
If you're unfamiliar with Leica's Monochrom cameras, here's a quick once-over of the formula: Leica takes its latest M or Q camera, takes out the color filter array of the sensor (rendering it incapable of taking a color photo), stealthily...