LEICA M10
Review and Photo example of the LEICA M10.
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- The lens for this photo example was a SUMMILUX M 50mm F1.4 ASPH.
Review
The Leica M10 is a successor to the Leica M typ240, a digital rangefinder camera called the typ3656.
The 24 million sensor remains the same, but Leica is calling it a new and improved sensor. The base ISO sensitivity has been changed to 100, so there may be some changes.
The names of companies involved in the design and manufacturing of sensors installed in cameras after the M10 no longer appear publicly.
This M10 is a model that inherits the official name of M, with a thinner body and slightly lighter weight. The video recording function, which was said to be unnecessary in M, has disappeared.
It supports live view, uses the rear LCD, and also offers a 2.4 million-dot electronic viewfinder called VISOFLEX (18767, typ020). VISOFLEX can also be used with the Leica T series. You can also use the 3.59 million-dot VISOFLEX2, which was released at the same time as the M11, but if you use it with the M10, you will need to update the firmware and accept the restriction that only the 2.4 million dots in the center of the viewfinder can be used.
The finder magnification, which is an important specification for the rangefinder section, is 0.73x, which is equivalent to the 0.72x of the film M6. Visually, I don’t think it’s a huge change. The Bright Frame LED finder system continues to be used.
The M10 is a camera that showed me the limits of a rangefinder digital camera.
It would be correct to say that photographers lack training in response to sensor performance that has become too advanced, but using F1-class large aperture lenses with double image matching results in mass production of out-of-focus images. If you want to install an EVF for that purpose, it is more convenient to use a mirrorless camera such as SL, and there is no point in using a large aperture lens if you have to stop the lens down. The main reason is that I no longer have the motivation to use an EVF beyond the inconvenience of not being able to fit it into my camera bag.
When I looked at the SUMMILUX 50mm images to create this page, I felt that using a lens up to F1.4 would be sufficient in terms of accuracy. Rangefinder cameras feel just as loose as film, so for now I’ve stopped using digital rangefinders with the M10 and returned to film cameras.
Specification
| Model name | M typ240 | M10 | M10-R | M11 |
| Camera effective pixel count | 2400m | 2400m | 4089m | 6030m |
| Number of recording pixels | 5,976 x 3,992 | 5,976 x 3,992 | 7,864 × 5,200 | 9,528 x 6,328 |
| Image sensor | CMOS | ← | ← | ← |
| Sensor Size | 35mm Full size 35.8 x 23.9mm | ← | ← | ← |
| Lowest sensitivity | 200 | 100 | ← | 64 |
| Back LCD | 3.0 92m dots | 3.0 104m dots | ← | 2.95 233m dots |
| ファインダー倍率 | 0.68 | 0.73 | ← | ← |
| EVF | EVF2 | VISOFLEX VISOFLEX2*1 | ← | VISOFLEX2 |
| Max shutter speed | 1/4000 | ← | ← | ← |
| Battery | BP-SCL2 *2 | BP-SCL5 *2 | ← | BP-SCL7 *2 |
| Touch screen | None | ← | Exist | ← |
| Recorded media | SD,SDHC,SDXC | ← | ← | ← |
| Release date | 2013.3.20 | 2017.01.28 | 2020.7.24 | 2022.1.21 |
| Size | 142.0 x 88.5 ｘ 39.5 | 139×80×38.5 | ← | ← |
| Weight(g)(with battery) Black model | 680 | 660 | ← | 530 |
| Weight(g)(with battery) Silver model | ↑ | ↑ | ← | 640 |
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- LEICA M10 hand grip (replace bottom cover)
- VISOFLEX / VISOFLEX2
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Update history
- 2024.04.07
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