Back to simple, basic and against the current trend, that's the philosophy that carried by Leica Leica cameras launched when M-D (typ 262). While other cameras compete to make a camera with touch-screen LCD that can rotate forward to selfie, Leica camera issued that are not even equipped LCD screen at all.
Leica would like to offer the thrill of photographing with a rangefinder camera with no unnecessary features. Photographing with this camera will bring the photographer seemed to photograph with Leica M camera era year 80 to 90 's, just the recording medium of film already replaced sensors and digital memory cards.
By offering this simple camera, Leica photographers hope will be more focused and concentrated on making the best photos rather than busy examining photos on the LCD screen. The design of the camera is also typical and consistent with the previous M-series Leica cameras: simple, elegant, sturdy and looks expensive.
In order to meet the principle of simple and essential above, Leica does some of these things:
They throw off the back of the LCD screen and replace it with the ISO control wheel
They throw the video features present in Leica M (typ 240)
They consistently use the principle of coincidence (that means relying on manual focus)
There is only the most important controls on the wheel body camera: shutter speed – ISO – mode (aperture selected from the lens). There are no more keys other than the On-OFF button.
If you're a fan of Leica rangefinder, a bold decision taken Germany this camera manufacturer may not be much of a surprise considering the Leica product differentiation should do a large number of the existing retro cameras on the market today: the Olympus PEN-F, Fuji camera row X and others.
With the unavailability of the LCD screen, each time we press the shutter then the image files that were created in the sensor will be sent directly to the memory card in the formats DNG (raw standards), the results of any new photos can be seen when we opened it in RAW file processing software like Lightroom and Photoshop. So there's really no time to check the results of the instant photos like digital cameras in General. Our eyes are focused on the subject in front of the camera and not be tempted to turn to the results of the photo that is on the LCD.
In addition to the simple and essential, Leica M-D reportedly also provided a very silent shutter sound. In the specs, Leica M-D is supplied with a full frame sensor with a resolution of 24 Megapixels, ISO range of 200-6400 and a slab of the upper and lower parts of the body established by the brass.
A camera like this certainly is a niche product, products that are created to fulfill a niche market is small but fanatic. Moreover, the rates are also typical Leica, about US $ 6000 (body only lho ...). But products like Leica M-D it will always be that buy, because Leica is a Leica. And those who buy a Leica M camera series already know exactly what they will buy and how much they have to spend to get it.
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