Damn that acros is beautiful, that segment from 2:18 looks amazing.

This XT3 Acros simulation looks absolutely gorgeous in this wintery wet city of yours. The Leica thing pales in comparison. Congrats to the videographer!

The Acros simulation is breathtaking.

You guys should really film more with Fuji. Fuji footage always looks really good.

Fell in love with this concept after using the first Monochrom. It's the only digital camera I own now, love it! Especially when combined with old lenses from the 50s/60s. Thank you for the review!

X-T3 really shoots beautiful footages.

Hmmm, Fuji X-T3 + Acros is stealing the show of the Leica monochrome :-)

Well Done. Love your review style, fun and informative! 👊🏼

Thanks. Great review as always and I enjoyed the B&W video as well. I am considering the 28 3.5 and would like to see more examples of shots taken with it.

this episode really makes me want to go take some photos!

Thanks for the vídeo, guys. ;) You've got a bunch of good shots here, and a handful of reaaally good shots, here. I personally really enjoyed the one with the kid on the underpass, and with the kid with the droplets/bokeh balls behind him. Awesome shots ;) I'll wait for the Fuji version of this, as it has been unofficially confirmed. Speaking of Fuji.. Great footage with the XT3 shooting video,here. Cheers from Portugal ;)

Wow, i really like that X-T3.

forget the $5000 camera. WOW, the Acros from the XT3 video is stunning. I guess the xt4 will be even better and no tripod needed. You guys get your hands on an xt4 next week? please do a field test as well as normal spec stuff. I think a lot of us are anxious to see the XT4 in action marty sender you tube

Nice review, guys👍😎! I really like the portraits!!!

Your film making talents really shine between 3:47 and 3:57. An example of off-the-chart artistic merits. Rich in human quality and personality. This reminds me of a previous masterpiece of yours when you did the Goodfellas "you are a funny guy" remake. Please consider making more short films - as illustrations of what particular cameras can do. That will provide so much artistic and technical inspirations, as you already have. Thank you.

I liked that changeover to B&W in the intro. For bonus marks, the DPReview logo, which followed, should also have been B&W!

Filmed with XT3, but XT4 in other hand :)

Hope you guys enjoyed that “filter” test ;-)

the RAW files must be black and white too, that's so cool

Love that column bw switch.

You guys convinced me! Now I really want a Fuji! Great work by Jordan. I can't wait for the XT-4. I can't even remember the camera Chris was talking about.

The problem with Jordan's reviews of all Leicas is that he sees them through the filter of modern digital cameras and specification box-checking. Those are not the primary reasons you get a Leica.

Yes...balloons...for filter tests...Yes.

After watching this episode, I decide to buy a Fujifilm XT3

A major piano manufacturer just brought out a new piano. It's called the Stornway Monochrom piano. It has all the black keys missing. They put the price up to convince you that less is more. Now you can only play in the key of C major. Apparently it's a unique selling point. Thousands of "musicians" flocked to buy it, believing that removing the ability to modulate or play in all colours and keys was a benefit. And all the music journalists wrote rave reviews. In other news, pianists queued up to have their third and fourth fingers amputated. They argued that removing fingers enabled them to appreciate the remaining fingers better. Somehow, they felt it was more artistic.

Great video and commentary. Great photos

Uuuhh man, ACROS looks so damn sexy!!

Excellent review! Makes me want one. Are Chris's lymph glands swollen?

Always enjoy your reviews, even if I do miss the electric bass intro from your "past life". ;) As to the camera, I think I'll stick to the M10 I currently own on pain of murder-by-wife!

I enjoy your first monochrom review, that was long ago.

Very nice, but very expensive. I wish Fujifilm would release a Monochrome only X-Pro or X100 camera at a lower price point...

I wish I could afford this camera, but I am happy with my PEN-F, it takes beautiful B&W images also.

As a Leica owner with an M240, I have never really liked the external EVF. Not that it is not effective in helping to focus and compose a scene, because it is. Rather, that for me, it does away with the Rangefinder experience and becomes another mirrorless. And it's not that I would consider myself a purist (I own other mirrorless cameras), but rather that if you are to make a rangefinder, then keep it as a rangefinder and improve that optical viewfinder. Fujifilm did it, and at a significantly lower price point. Leica has the technology, but chooses not to do it, placing that EVF bulb on top of the camera. They should change that to keep the camera low-profile and true to the rangefinder form factor.

I really enjoyed this x-t3 footage.

When you're reviewing an $8K camera and everyone is more in love with the results of the $1000 camera recording the review!😂

Love how the video was shot in B&W! 💯

I love the black and white in this Leica monochrom video so much, I'll switch to Acros on my Fuji XT-3 right now! Fortune saved.

Man this XT3 Acros footage looks amazing.

As usual I didn’t pay attention to the start of the video and missed what this was shot with (assuming it was on screen somewhere, or was said). Then at the end I’m like, this has to be a Fujifilm camera with Acros. I’m actually recognizing the look of it now even though I don’t use it often. Looks nice!

Love the idea of this camera. Going to go home and put my 17mm (34 mm equivalent) on my Olympus M5 Mark II. And put it on RAW with monochrome picture profile. And go out and about.

That camera looks stunning, but the real champ here is that Acros from the X-T3 😍

Acros actually looks really good

Definitely going to start shooting my Fuji in acros more

Nice black paint summaron

Please. More videos about this camera. Thanks in advance!

I was curious about this, though I couldn't afford it. I had been pushing Fujifilm to make a monochrome version of the x100 series, which would be cool, but as you say, you're then stuck with using screw on filters. I wonder if there is a difference between using, say, a yellow optical filter on a monochrome sensor, and applying a "yellow filter" or bias in post on a Bayer sensor?

Stunning Fugi video color!

LOL. This is a video about the M10 Monochrom, but everyone is more interested in the Fuji Acros that you guys used to shoot the video. This Leica M10 Monochrom video really did a good job in selling the Fuji cameras.

Hey Chris, I have a question: How do most companies get in touch with you when they have a new product they'd like to send your way?

Acros is gorgeous... I’m more amazed with the xt3 video rendition than the Leica by itself haahha

Pics do look amazing. I wonder how the X100V + suitable b&w preset would compare.

Very good program dealing, at last, with some important issues shootin B&W in the camera.

This video just makes me wish you guys shot more with the XT3. Great job Jordan!

Low light shooting with a monochrome sensor is just insanely good. I shot the M10 Monochrome in a pitch black area on ISO 50k and it was clear as FUUUUUUUUCK

It looks like the review was more about the XT-3 then M10 ??? Great footage ....

Love the outcome of the video. It looked great on black and white. Chris was okay.

This video makes me want to take video with my X-T2, I’ve never done it

Can't wait for your X-T4 review coming out next Thursday? ^_

I think there is an auto review option where the LCD (Visoflex) will show the result for as long as you have your finger on the shutter release. That is a solution?

First from The Caribbean area lol. Waving from The Bahamas :)

I don't have a dog in this fight, but the Acros film sim stole the show for me. Congrats to Jordan. What a good eye.

Does it come with built-in physical color filters for that price tag?

I especially liked the transition at the beginnig.

The Acros comes across so good. Pun not intended.

The reason DPreview videos with Chris and Jordan are the only ones that allow comments are because the only thing people would comment on the others is "Where's Chris and Jordan?"

Thank you for the acros. :)

It's interesting to see that at 1:44 both f8 and f3.4 with same lens has same depth of field. Or maybe something else is going on. Please correct me.

Thank you for the nice (Fujifilm Acros) video! Although Leica always made very fine cameras, I must confess that I love to work with the Fujifilm models with their black and white simulation and the possibility to configure specific b&W color filter effect (Like the green one which is excellent to boost the skin tone). But I must confess that the Leica B&W resolution image output seems outstanding.

Man, ACROS blows my mind...

I'm not going to complain about Chris's not complaining

Great videography indeed..

Nice & Thanks :)

The Fuji video looks nicer than the Leica stills.

Great sharpness and details in the testfiles. But for my taste most of them have a dull and greyish tonecurve. I am missing the punch of a good converted RGB-> B&W. Are they edited or out of camera? Look at 4:51 as example the snow in sunlight should have more lights and brilliance. For me a 35mm Foveon colour sensor would be the best digital B&W camera. Sharpness and details like a monochrome sensor but flexibility in conversion from colour to B&W. Unfortunately Sigma is starting from scratch with that project…

That Acros though

The monochrome subsensor on the Leica P9 wasn't enough for me. I want to get my daily carry (camera that is) debayered.

That's acros in video is amazing

i'll switch my fuji x-e1 to mono instead, awaiting the forthcoming x-eM(onochrome)...

The Leica is way out of my $ range. I just watch anything you guys put out!!! Jordan, how do you like shooting Fuji? I have A73 but thinking about getting the X-T4 in March for wedding video

Very Nice.......

snow in Calgary is melting in February?

I still would prefer converting colored to BW for color filter simulation.

What's the bit depth per photosite?

Which fast 64gb sd card do you recommend with Leica M10 monochrom?

Shame that more manufacturers do stuff like this. A digital b&w Pentax Spotmatic, Nikon FM etc. would have been something!

Make a Q2 Monochrome and I am a buyer.

Good comprising Fuji vs Leica =)

Many of the pictures shown used higher than required ISO for the scene. Why? 2nd, at 7:14, the delay waiting to see the picture just taken really should be an easy fix with a firmware update and I am surprised being on a camera of this cost.

Beautiful camera for sure if one's finance allows but I don't think there is an existing printer which can transfer all those exact equivalent numbers/scales of the the gray tones or shades of this camera produces on a piece of printed paper. Am I wrong? And can our eyes really see them if it exists?

ACROS 😍😍😍

There is people out there that still believe that DPReview's reviews are genuine? Years ago I bought the infamous Leica M8, of course for DPReview the camera was fantastic (or fantastic was the money Leica paid for the 'review'). Well, sold the M8 a few months after and, after some time, bought an M9. Now I shot with Sony A7rii, Leica is today, nothing more than a hype.

Im in black an White right now which means only one thing, we're shooting with the Fuji X-T3 Acros.

What genius! A black and white only digital without the stigma of an affordable price. Makes nice jewelry, though.

That's some nice jazz.

Thoroughly enjoyed the acros video in this episode. I was sad to see it go away for half a second while showing the wall colours

I think you missed the lack of Bayer filter, which is the MAIN BENEFIT of a Monochrom!!

Ha, best sales pitch for Fuji Acros yet!

As much as I like shooting in b/w this thing seems to be horrendously impractical. I have to put on an external EVF to see what I am going to receive in a viewfinder? I'd rather use an old film Leica and a cheap mirrorless, maybe one with a highresmode to digitalize the negatives later. You could do more videos in b/w. It's so much nicer to watch. I like this one.

Increasing B&W contrast on a colour file in post?? No no... You will get weird white lines between the different subjects. This is exactly why you NEED a monochrome camera with filters. 👍🏼✨

Thank god this video is over ! I thought I went colour blind .