Leica has unveiled its brand new camera, with the Leica M10-R digital rangefinder packing a new full-frame 40-megapixel sensor. In this case the “R” stands for “resolution,” with a substantially greater pixel depend than the everyday M10 which clocks in at 24-megapixels.
Usually, Leica acknowledges, that make bigger would come with a sacrifice in low-light overall performance and for that reason extra noise. For the M10-R, though, the employer says that style has been bucked, with a base sensitivity of ISO a hundred and a super-quiet mechanical shutter the use of tech borrowed from the M10-P.
The low extent isn’t the solely gain of that shutter: it’s additionally accountable for minimal vibrations, Leica factors out, and so helps reduce down on digicam shake. Then the organisation provides its Maestro II photo processor, for lossless uncooked file compression.
It’s like minded with Leica’s M lenses and, with an adapter, the company’s R lenses too. ISO vary clocks in at one hundred to 50,000 – with the acquainted devoted ISO dial on pinnacle – and there’s assist for prolonged exposures up to a whopping sixteen minutes in length. There’s up to 4.5 fps capturing for up to 10 seconds, courtesy of the 2GB buffer.
What you don’t get is video. As with Leica’s different fashions in the range, this is all for stills only.
On the back, there’s a 3-inch TFT LCD show with 1.036 million pixels and 100-percent area of view, protected with Gorilla glass. There’s additionally an optical viewfinder with 0.73x magnification, however the M10-R will additionally work with Leica’s Visoflex Tip 020 digital viewfinder accessory. Even besides that, though, you get computerized parallax compensation and bright-line body lines.
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A viewfinder body selector on the the front permits you to manually trade the obvious photo discipline you see, throughout 35mm/135mm, 28mm/90mm, and 50mm/75mm focal size pairs. There’s additionally guide for cut up or superimposed brilliant area pix for higher guide focusing.
Leica bakes in WiFi b/g/n for far flung manipulate with its app, and then finishes the complete component off with an all-metal weatherproof die forged magnesium physique with brass pinnacle panel and base, and artificial leather-based trim. It’ll be supplied in Black Chrome and Silver Chrome finishes; each have a warm shoe on the top.
Sales of the Leica M10-R kick off later this month, the business enterprise says. It’ll be priced at $8,295 for the body-only.
