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The K3 III (APS-C, 26 MP BSI sensor, max shutter speed 1/8000 s) is well priced, but it is not in the same league as the M11 Monochrom. It is also less expensive than Leica’s Q2 Monochrom (47 MP full-frame non-BSI sensor). Has anyone critically compared the dynamic range and EVFs (optional for M11) of these three cameras?

But the Pentax is APS C sensor not full frame

I have an old pentax zx-5 with a f1.9 43mm ….. im now pentax-curious!

@@TheVFXbyArt you have the Pentax 43mm f1.9 Limited? Nice lens. I’ve also got it’s siblings 31mm f1.8 and 77mm f1.8. They are a lovely trio

Man, I truly appreciate that brother. Thank you. I think you definitely gotta get hands-on with this one for a couple weeks. Curious to see what you think.

Video with the Q2M can be fun. I've only done a few video clips but they turned out exceptional. It may be a coincidence that I happened to capture interesting scenes but one clip in particular would have been difficult with another camera as it was in very low light.

If fuji gave us a monochrome xpro or x100….. you think we have an x100v supply chain issue now?!?!? 🤣😱

The 15 stops is all in the shadows while anything with white in it clips. Useless!! Canon’s highlight priority and fuji’s dr400 mode fixes this poorly weight distribution of exposure across the sensor, at the expense of some shadow detail. In english that means you expose for the bride’s face and her dress isn’t clipped. Bride looks great on the back of the camera when you show her instead of dark image because you had to underexpose the shot to preserve the highlights! 🤦 …on a $9000 camera!

@@TheVFXbyArt you don't understand photography my brother... you can massively underexpose with the M11M, 7 stops even, and get full detail from the shadows....Highlights are just white paper, but if shadows are just black ink, then you lost the capture... 15 stops is 15 stops of dynamic range man.

@@annenominous7220 thats not knowing photography. Theres a reason why canon has highlight priority and fuji has its dr400. 15 stops of dynamic range where 14 is in shadow and 1 is in highlight is barely “dynamic” Shadow recovery? Yes thats tremendous, but at the expense of bright skys, front lit clouds, front lit wedding dresses, specular highlights in everything from metal to sweaty faces, backlit shots, high key shots. Barely dynamic. Yes, you can underexpose and, well, have dark images until you hit lightroom. Plenty of people and clients that want a peak at the back of your camera. All underexposed images. By contrast, fuji’s punny 11.2 stops of DR, in their dr400 mode, puts about 3-5 stops for highlights alone, and the remaining 6.2-8.2 stops in shadow detail. What does that mean in english? Especially with fuji’s tone curves? (Leica introduced this with the m11) Bright skies and clouds with highlight detail and depth. Wedding dresses that aren’t clipped, specular highlights with a filmic rolloff. All with a normal exposure, no “expose for the right” underexposing. No dark images that you have to make excuses for while your client’s iphone photo “looks better”. So I’ll take fuji’s balanced 11.2 DR over leica’s shadows centric 15 DR with clipped highlights any day. And I love Leica, hence why I comment at every new leica release about this issue. Thanks for reading!!!

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Yea, that’s one way. Instead of a preview, Leica gives a truer way to get more dynamic range by changing the sensor resolution. Doesn’t solve the preview problem, but maybe they can add shadow/highlight in JPEG recipes as a stop-gap.

@@GajanBalan hey man. Great video. Rented the m11, shot with it at the same event with my fuji. Shot at the Lower 18mp range. Saw zero difference in DR from full Raw size. The system that canon and fuji use is NOT a preview. The image in underexposed in camera, corrected in camera, so that the image you see both in LR and in the back of your camera are the same: an “underexposed image” with mids and blacks boosted to bring the image back to normal. Your day photo shot at f8, 1/1000 sec (because the iso was at 640) looks normal, but with detail in the highlights. On the Leica, I’D have to UNDEREXPOSE my image by two stops, wait to get to LR. Do the same operations above to get the same results. Like I said, this is all software, dunno why Leica doesn’t implement this. It would make their cameras perfect!

Definitely worth a test drive 👌🏾

Thank you ✊🏾

It’s may even be trickier to see through KZfaq.

It’s really gonna come down to that resolution and dynamic range; whether or not it’s worth it for the work someone does.

Pentax dropped one. RED technically offers one (albeit, cinema). I’m hoping we might see more options in the future.

@@GajanBalan only downside that I can see is it’s an APS-C sensor….and the body doesn’t look near as good as the Leica hahaha. Good to know either way.

Nice! Enjoy the journey ✌🏾

Haha, it’s all a matter or perspective. Thanks for watching ✌🏾

I would rather capture a moment with artistic composition than be worried about dynamic range, accuracy or precision. The best photographs are from the film sniper days.

The M11P would have these.

I hope there’s an M11-P with these updates in the future.

That’s a tough decision that only you can make. If you can live without colour, the experience is simply better on M11 Monochrom.

No branding. There’s a sizeable contingent of users that just prefer a clean camera where a black/white logo would be reserved for a special edition.

that black screw is not just for design. You can actually turn it to calibrate the range finder vertical focusing.

Oh really?! I had no idea. I’m new. Just got the m11 and 50apo. Thanks for replying.

It depends, but I’m not as picky with noise. I’ll likely make a video in the future around my street settings. Thanks for watching!

I switched from Lightroom years ago for several reasons but you’ve inspired me to turn this into a post on my foto club. I’ll look to drop a proper answer there in the coming weeks www.churchxstreet.com/

It’s not officially supported, so some results (esp. high ISO) might render differently right now. There’s a good amount of latitude to work with but I think the official support will fix the quirks.

Adjusting the channels on the M11 aren’t giving you more tonality, they’re altering the existing data. And not entirely, since you have quite a bit of dynamic range to pull back for an underexposed shot.

Haha, I mean… depends on the photographer in that case 😅

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No idea. I hope it’s when I’ve actually saved enough to get one though 😅

You can, there’s a toning option to create JPEGS in three different tones at varying strengths.

@@GajanBalan but not for DNGs? That sounds odd

@@FlosBlog makes sense that you wouldn't be able to bake it in the raw files since you can do that in your editing software

@@andrewcphan no, because the file has no color information and (at least lightroom) cannot change the tones - as the video has shown

@@FlosBlog there's no tones to change since there's not colour being captures. It pure luminance.

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Thank you 🙏🏾

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@@GajanBalan imagine paying $10k for a camera that's worse than a $2k sony, bUt iT loOks So oLd scHoOL brO

It’s not gonna be for everyone, I genuinely love it though.

@@GajanBalan agreed, I'm just talking about that screw on the face plate, it's an ugly one and it seems like it's the only detail Leica doesn't pay attention to (it's also on many other cameras).

@@REMY.C. you can actually turn it with a screwdriver for vertical focus adjustment. It is so troublesome when there is a red button logo cover because you have to take off the glue and risk chipping the paint off the camera.

@@j5daniel182 oh! Thanks a lot for that information Daniel. I didn't know it was a focus screw. Yet I'd prefer a prettier and more symmetrical one :-D