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Leica M (Typ 262)

Pros: Build quality, user experience, simplicity, finishes, dials, infinite battery, no live view, immediacy.

Cons: ISO, dynamic range, OVF, colors.

Opinion: In front of Leica you are never 100% objective, honestly I don't understand why, and the more you dig the more difficult it is to find an impartial review. Everyone is ecstatic in owning it (given the figures at stake) but it is difficult to be honest in admitting its limits. So in the end you find yourself buying it with your eyes closed and you realize that it's not all roses and flowers but in order to resell it you play their game and so on a loop endlessly. Pay attention to it, everyone talks about the fantastic colors of the M9 but there are very few dng to download and test... Premise the camera is beautiful, it is divinely built, it is fantastic to use and you want to always carry it with you and photograph without ever stopping and thanks to the mega battery you really don't need anything else. It could have been the definitive camera: ISO 200-3200 (since the photos are taken with light), no live view, essential menu, too many buttons on the back but the layout is comfortable, solid and punctual dials, no lag, imperceptibly slow in ignition but we are talking about details, too bad that in the end what matters is the result and when you open the photos all the knots come to a head. Let's be clear with the right light conditions without mistreating the raw too much, the photos are beautiful, of course, but they are not worth the difference in price that there is compared to what the market offers today; Unfortunately, the limited dynamic range does not allow many post-processing processes, indeed it doesn't take much to see noise and/or banding appear. Fortunately, this model born after the M240 does not suffer from green shadows but shares a dynamic range that is not exactly excellent. Everything is then accompanied by a red channel that quickly saturates thus causing a considerable loss of detail on objects of this color, not to mention a color shift when the photo is under or overexposed (a defect that some sensors had years ago). I haven't tried the M10/M11 so my conclusions are based only on the M240 and M262 that I have owned and used personally, in my opinion therefore they are not worth what they cost and currently the only Leicas worth owning are the analog ones.

sent on June 16, 2025