Monochrom users a few questions

[dolina]

I am eying to get my first M and narrowed it down to the Monochrom.

May I know what quirks I should be aware of that are Monochrom-specific. No need for a briefing on RangeFinder cameras. I am willing to learn with the camera.

I define quirks as memory card compatibilities, firmware upgrades and other things.

 

[raytoei]

No color ?

 

[NazgulKing]

Buy the monochrome if and only if you like black and white and you don't care about color.

Otherwise, you are better off with the Leica ME where you can desaturate later and twiddle with the color balance. THere is no option for software color balancing if you go Monochrome. You can only do it with physical filters.

 

[Riotbmx]

THere is no option for software color balancing if you go Monochrome. You can only do it with physical filters.

I was about to say that and you've mentioned it. You'll lose a few stop with colour filters on too. I find it strange because the advantage of digital is that you can shoot and do the post processing later, but with this you gotta shoot with filters(if you need) and still do post processing later. So far all the images I've seen from the MM looked very HDR-ish

 

[zixaw]

To have usable 10000 ISO shots from a rangefinder... Priceless.

 

[tonyep]

If your highlights are overexposed by just a little, there's no way you can recover it unlike shooting in color since you are only capturing a single channel instead of 3. The monochrom has the sharpest output among other Leica Ms and a usable ISO 10000. Even the new M maxed at 6400.

 

[graphitee]

The ones that looked HDR-ish is because of the silver effex software. I tried it and I can say the quirk is it captures way too many details.