The brand new Leica M11 rangefinder digital camera has a singular triple decision BSI CMOS sensor that may file 60, 36 or 18 megapixels pictures utilizing the total sensor space.
Different key new options embody an expanded ISO vary, prolonged battery life, 64Gb inside storage, USB-C connectivity and a extra streamlined and intuitive menu system.
The Leica M11 is accessible worldwide from thirteenth January 2022, priced at £7,500 together with VAT within the UK and $8,995 within the US.
Leica Press Launch
The brand new Leica M11 – A Legend reinvented.
Wetzlar, thirteenth January 2022. The brand new Leica M11 combines the expertise of conventional rangefinder pictures with up to date digital camera expertise, delivering most flexibility to each photographer. That includes an unique triple decision sensor, expanded ISO vary, twin reminiscence, prolonged battery life and a streamlined and intuitive menu system, the Leica M11 represents a brand new benchmark in digital pictures and probably the most versatile M-System digital camera in Leica’s storied historical past.
On the coronary heart of the brand new Leica M11 is a full-frame BSI CMOS sensor with Triple Decision Know-how. Uncooked picture recordsdata in DNG format and JPEGs could be recorded at 60, 36 or 18 megapixels, at all times utilizing the total sensor space. The 60-megapixel possibility delivers unprecedented picture high quality and element decision, exploiting the total optical potential of Leica’s newest APO Lenses for the M-System – whereas the decrease resolutions allow sooner digital camera efficiency, prolonged burst lengths, and smaller recordsdata.
A particular IR + UV lower filter – comprising of two extraordinarily skinny, cemented layers of glass – obtain an particularly efficient correction of even probably the most indirect rays of incident mild. Due to a brand new color filter array, the digital camera additionally affords an improved, extra pure color copy.
Whereas sustaining the enduring look of a conventional Leica M, the fastidiously optimised design of the Leica M11 is targeted on effectivity and ergonomics. The controls have been organized in a singular structure across the new, 2.3 million pixels, high-resolution touchscreen. The menu construction of the M11 stays according to that of the Leica SL2 and Q2, unifying the acclaimed interface for a extra user-friendly expertise.
The Leica M11 has a sensitivity vary of ISO 64 to 50,000; it data a 14-bit color depth and has a dynamic vary of as much as 15 stops. With its Maestro III processor, the Leica M11 affords a fluid and responsive operation, even on the highest decision and picture high quality. With the elective digital shutter that includes a shutter velocity of as much as 1/16000 of a second, photographers are empowered to work with huge open apertures, in shiny mild – with out ND filters. The M11 marks the first-time multi-field metering in rangefinder mode will likely be obtainable, affording photographers a worthwhile instrument to curate mild.
The black-finish variant of the Leica M11 includes a prime plate fabricated from high-quality aluminium with an particularly scratch-resistant coating, leading to a physique that’s roughly 20% (100 grams) lighter than its silver-chrome counterpart. By comparability, the silver-chrome M11 includes a basic brass prime plate and weighs in at 640 grams.
Distinctive to the M11 is the deliberate omission of the normal base plate, providing photographers straightforward direct entry to the battery and SD card. Along with the SD card slot, the Leica M11 is supplied with a beneficiant inside storage capability of 64 gigabytes. Consequently, the M11 is the primary M mannequin to avoid wasting picture recordsdata concurrently onto two completely different storage media. The 1800mAh battery shops 64% extra power than earlier than, and mixed with the digital camera’s extra environment friendly operation, permits for significantly longer taking pictures periods with a single cost. As well as, the newly added common USB-C port additionally serves to cost the digital camera’s battery, utilizing most USB-C chargers.
Upgraded connectivity options of the Leica M11 will likely be obtainable by way of a brand new firmware model within the second half of 2022. This may allow the brand new M11’s superior connectivity capabilities that can elevate customers’ cell workflows and improve the Leica FOTOS app with the chance to embed location information, entry pictures through Bluetooth connection, and permit elevated switch charges. Furthermore, the Leica M11 is already an Apple “Made for iPhone and iPad” licensed accent and as such, affords distinctive skills with the included Leica FOTOS cable.
With the evolution of the Leica M comes new equipment to reinforce the rangefinder expertise. The brand new Visoflex 2 digital viewfinder options 3.7-megapixel decision to supply excellent picture management in Stay View mode. Encased in a metallic exterior, the Visoflex 2 completely matches the M11 when it comes to design and performance. Full-frame viewing and the exact focusing of Leica lenses is supported by the Visoflex 2’s giant diopter adjustment vary of -4 to +3 and 90 diploma tilt operate. To enhance ergonomics with out obstructing entry to the battery and SD card, photographers can have the choice to enrich their M11 with a newly designed handgrip. The brand new handgrip doubles as a tripod mount, the place the Leica M11 could be connected to Arca-Swiss-standard tripod heads with out the necessity for any extra gear.
Leica M11: Witness the Future
“We’re very pleased with the brand new M11,” says Stefan Daniel, Govt Vice President Know-how and Operations. “This digital camera is one other milestone for Leica. Its internal workings are a totally new improvement, whereas the outside stays true to the enduring Leica M design.”
“As everyone knows,” says Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Leica Digital camera AG, Wetzlar, “the enduring Leica M-System has accompanied devoted photographers worldwide over many years, giving them a superior instrument for witnessing their time and creating excellent footage. The brand new M11 will proceed this legacy with excellent expertise, based mostly on the expertise since 1925.”
Please obtain imagery HERE. For additional particulars, please contact Jon Holt at [email protected] or Ben Jones at [email protected] The Leica M11 is accessible worldwide from thirteenth January, 2022 at 2pm, the RRP is £7,500 together with VAT.
LEICA M11 Specs
Digital camera sort: Digital system digital camera with rangefinder
Sort no.: 2416
Order No.: Black: 20 200 (EU/US/CN), 20 202 (JP), 20 206 (ROW)
Silver: 20 201 (EU/US/CN), 20 203 (JP), 20 207 (ROW)
Buffer: reminiscence 3 GB
DNG™: 15 recordings
JPG: > 100 recordings
Storage medium: UHS-II (beneficial), UHS-I, SD/SDHC/SDXC reminiscence card (SDXC playing cards as much as 2 TB, inside reminiscence 64 GB)
Materials: Black: full-metal housing fabricated from magnesium and aluminum, leatherette cowl
Silver: full-metal housing fabricated from magnesium and brass, leatherette cowl
Lens mount: Leica M bayonet with extra sensor for 6-bit encoding
Working circumstances: +0 to +40°C
Interfaces: ISO accent shoe with extra management contacts for Leica flash items and Leica Visoflex 2 viewfinder (elective accent),
USB 3.1 Gen1 Typ-C
Tripod thread: A 1⁄4 DIN 4503 (1⁄4”) with chrome steel within the base
Dimensions: ca. 139 x 38,5 x 80mm
Weight: Black: approx. 530 g/455 g (with/with out battery)
Silver: approx. 640 g/565 g (with/with out battery)
Sensor
Sensor dimension: CMOS sensor, pixel pitch: 3.76 μm, 35 mm: 9528 x 6328 pixels (60.3 MP)
Processor: Leica Maestro sequence (Maestro III)
Filter: RGB shade filter, UV/IR filter, no low-pass filter
File codecs: DNG™ (uncooked information, loss-free compression), DNG + JPG, JPG (DCF, Exif 2.30)
Picture decision: DNG™ L-DNG 60,3 MP 9528 x 6328 pixels
M-DNG 36,5 MP 7416 x 4928 pixels
S-DNG 18,4 MP 5272 x 3498 pixels
JPG L-JPG 60,1 MP 9504 x 6320 pixels
M-JPG 36,2 MP 7392 x 4896 pixels
S-JPG 18,2 MP 5248 x 3472 pixels
Your entire sensor floor will at all times be used regardless of format and determination. Digital Zoom 1.3x and 1.8x obtainable (at all times based mostly on L-DNG or L-JPG)
File dimension: DNG™ L-DNG approx. 70–120 MB
M-DNG approx. 40–70 MB
S-DNG approx. 20–40 MB
JPG L-JPG approx. 15–30 MB
M-JPG approx. 9–18 MB
S-JPG approx. 5–9 MB
JPG: relying on decision and picture content material
Shade depth: DNG™: 14 Bit, JPG: 8 Bit
Shade house: sRGB
Viewfinder/LCD panel
Viewfinder: Massive, bright-line rangefinder with automated parallax compensation, appropriate for -0.5 dpt; elective corrective lenses obtainable: -3 to +3 dpt
Show: 4-digit digital show with gadgets present on the highest and backside, Picture area limiter: two lit frames: 35 mm + 135 mm, 28 mm +
90 mm, 50 mm + 75 mm (automated switchover when lens is connected)
Parallax compensation: The horizontal and vertical distinction between viewfinder and lens is compensated robotically in keeping with the related focus
setting. Congruence of viewfinder and precise picture. The scale of the bright-line body matches the gap:
– at 2 m: the precise sensor dimension of approx. 23.9 x 35.8 mm
– at infinity: (relying on focal size) approx. 7.3% (28 mm) to 18% (135 mm)
– lower than 2 m: lower than sensor dimension
Viewfinder magnification: x0.73 (all lenses)
Massive-base rangefinder: Cut up or superimposed picture rangefinder proven as a shiny area on the middle of the viewfinder picture
LCD panel: 2.95” (Lively Matrix TFT), Gorilla Glass 5 cowl glass, 2 332 800 dots, format 3:2, contact management obtainable
Shutter
Shutter sort: Electronically managed focal aircraft shutter and digital shutter operate
Shutter speeds: Mech. shutter: 60 min to 1⁄4000 s
Electro. shutter operate: 60 s to 1⁄16000 s
Flash Synch: as much as 1⁄180 s
Elective noise discount through extra “black image” (could be disabled)
Shutter button: Two-stage (1st stage: activation of the digital camera electronics together with publicity metering and metering reminiscence lock, 2nd stage: taking the image)
Self-timer: Delay time: 2 s or 12 s
Bildfolge: Single
Steady – Low Velocity (3 fps)
Steady – Excessive Velocity (4.5 fps)
Interval Taking pictures
Publicity Bracketing
Focusing
Focus vary: 70 cm to ∞
Focus mode: Handbook (focus help features Magnification and Focus Peaking obtainable)
Publicity
Publicity metering: TTL (publicity metering by way of the lens), with working aperture
Metering precept: Publicity metering is completed by the picture sensor for all publicity metering strategies (in Stay View mode and in rangefinder mode)
Publicity metering strategies: Spot, Heart-Weighted, Multi-Area
Publicity modes: Aperture precedence mode (A): Automated shutter velocity management with handbook aperture preselection
Handbook (M): handbook setting for shutter velocity and aperture
Publicity compensation: ±3 EV in 1⁄3 EV increments
Automated bracketing: 3 or 5 photographs, graduations between shoots as much as 3 EV, in 1⁄3 EV increments, extra elective publicity compensation: as much as ±3 EV
ISO sensitivity vary: Auto ISO: IS0 64 (native) to ISO 50 000, additionally obtainable in flash mode
Handbook: ISO 64 to ISO 50,000
White stability: Automated (Auto), Default (Daylight – 5200 Ok, Cloudy – 6100 Ok, Shadow – 6600 Ok, Tungsten – 2950 Ok, HMI – 5700 Ok, Fluorescent (heat) – 3650 Ok, Fluorescent (cool) – 5800 Ok, Flash – 6600 Ok), handbook metering (Grey card), handbook shade temperature setting (Shade Temperature, 2000 Ok to 11,500 Ok)
Flash
Flash unit connector: By way of the accent shoe
Metering precept: Flash publicity metering is completed by the picture sensor for all publicity metering strategies (in Stay View mode and in rangefinder mode)
Flash sync time: 1⁄180 s, slower shutter speeds obtainable, automated switchover to TTL linear flash mode with HSS-compatible Leica system flash items if sync time is undercut
Flash publicity metering: Utilizing center-weighted TTL pre-flash metering with Leica flash items (SF 26, SF 40, SF 58, SF 60, SF 64) or with system-compatible flash items, distant managed flash SF C1
Flash publicity
compensation: SF 40: ±2 EV in 1⁄2 EV increments
SF 60: ±2 EV in 1⁄3 EV increments
Different: ±3 EV in 1⁄3 EV increments
Shows in flash mode
(within the viewfinder solely) Flash icon: Connection of an exterior flash unit
Gear
WLAN: The Leica FOTOS app is required to make use of the WLAN operate. The Leica app is accessible from the Apple App Retailer™ or the Google
Play Retailer™. 2.4 GHz/5 GHz* twin band IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wave2 WLAN (commonplace WLAN protocol), encryption technique: WLAN-compatible WPA™/WPA2™, entry technique: infrastructure mode
Bluetooth*: Bluetooth v4.2 BR/EDR/LE, BR/DR-channel 1-79, LE-channel 0-39 (2402–2480 MHz)
GPS*: Geotagging through Leica FOTOS app utilizing Bluetooth
* Out there after Firmware Replace throughout second half of 2022
Menu languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese language, Conventional Chinese language, Korean, Portuguese
Energy provide
Rechargeable battery
(Leica BP-SCL7): Li-Ion (Lithium-Polymer) rechargeable battery, rated voltage: 7.4 V / capability: 1800 mAh, Charging voltage/present: DC 1000 mAh, 7.4 V, working circumstances: +10°C to +35°C (charging) / +0°C to +40°C (discharged)
Approx. 700 photographs (in accordance with CIPA Normal in rangefinder mode), as much as approx. 1700 photographs (Leica tailored taking pictures cycle)
Charger (Leica BC-SCL7): Enter: USB-C DC 5 V, 2 A, output: DC 8.4 V, 1 A, working circumstances: +10°C to +35°C
Energy pack
(Leica ACA-SCL7): Enter: AC 110 V – 240 V ~ 50/60 Hz, 0.3 A, output: DC 5 V, 2 A, working circumstances: +10°C to +35°C
USB Energy provide: When in standby mode or Off: USB charging operate
When On: USB energy provide and intermittent charging
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