Tag: Leica

Today Leica took the brave (or some would say foolish) step of releasing a Leica Digital M with no rear screen.  This is a mainstream model and not a special edition.

Like I said when the rumours started to appear, I like the concept.  For my personal work that involves wandering around the streets of Lincoln, shooting street, it would be a fun and simple camera, just concentrating on the important things.  With this type of photography you generally only get one chance of capturing the moment anyway so not being able to chimp at the screen is not an issue.

The problem is it could not be my main Leica rangefinder.  As I use the rangefinder for portrait work and need to get the image right, checking the histogram is important to me.  With Leica M’s being the price they are I can only really afford one digital M, so its hard to justify this one.

This lens designed for the Leica T has a field of view of about 50mm.  As reviews start to appear it’s made quite a impact.

The T lens do produce great results but many users were upset that Leica had software correction to improve the results and to over come some issues.

Leica built quite a reputation with their M and R lens. Back when we shot film post lens correction was not possible.  Film was more forgiving and people forget that with digital sensors some type of correction is generally required.

So no matter what lens you use there will be some correction going on.

For those who do not like software correction then possibly manufacturers could put options  in their cameras to turn off and to control the strength. Even better go back to real RAW files without correction and have the correction controllable in your RAW processing software.