- Today, we're trying something new on ShortCircuit and we're looking at the Leica M11.
So Leica has updated the sensor in this camera. It is now 60 megapixels, backside illuminated
and you can actually use crop modes 1.3 and 1.8 while shooting.
So if you don't want to see your entire image
right off the bat, it'll crop in for you and you don't have to do that in post
but you will still retain the entirety of your image. And it's one of those things where Leica
wants you to experience as much in camera as possible.
And the experience of using their cameras is the entire point of them.
The body overall hasn't changed a ton from the M10.
You've got the custom button that was on the front of the camera,
is now on the top of the camera. One of the features I actually really love
about this camera is each button on here. The scroll wheel, for example, is now a button.
And then the custom button, if you hold them down,
it actually brings up all the features that you can use this for.
So for example, if I wanted to change my digital zoom with this dial,
so I can press it once, there's the frame guides for 1.3,
press it again, and there's the frame guides for 1.8.
That's handy and if I wanted to do something else
like change my shutter type, I'll press it one more time
and that brings me to the shutter menu. So mechanical and electronic, which is the first 4AM camera.
So this camera actually has electronic shutter.
Unfortunately, you're probably going to still have rolling shutter issues
like other cameras that have electronic shutter. The readout on this sensor probably isn't quite fast enough
for super fast moving objects. But if you're shooting a subject that's fairly still
and you want it to be quiet!, now that's a situation where the electronic shutter
on this camera might work to your benefit. On the top of the camera, the ISO dial goes down to 64
which is a significant improvement from 100 and 200 being technically the lowest settings
that you can use on the M10 and 64 ISO is really are gonna help
for those really really bright days where you just want that extra lower exposure to protect your highlights.
The shutter speed max on this mechanically is one over 4,000, but thanks to the electronic shutter
if you're shooting something that is a still image, it's actually one over 16,000
which I don't actually have on my M10, quite an interesting experience using an electronic shutter.
Am trying to turn the electronic shutter on. I'm gonna switch it to auto, change my ISO to 64
and see how this performs.
Wow, it actually is very strange to have the experience
on a Leica, not hearing the shutter 'cause the shutter is such an integral part
of the shooting experience. I think my favorite physical change on this camera,
is the fact that they made the battery plate, well, there is no battery plate.
It is just now a single bottom plate that is all attached except for the battery that pops out.
Doesn't fall out when you do that, one press,
and the battery comes out. Another addition to the hardware that I really appreciate
when I first started using this about a week ago is the camera has 64 gigs built in internal storage now.
Finishing off the bottom of the camera they actually added a type-C port to the bottom as well.
And it comes with a type-C and a lightning cable which you can use directly to your iPhone
with the Leica photos app. And you can transfer your photos to your iPhone directly.
If you're curious, I'm using the 35 mil 1.4ASPH
that Leica sent with the camera. If you like modern glass and a very clean look,
this pairing would be very good.
But this package together is about $15,000.
So personally I'd probably use a different lens.
One nice thing, but also I have a couple gripes with it is the touch screen on this camera.
It's nice that it has a touch screen. So you can open your menu, click here
but then you can't do things like scroll through the menu.
And if I try to click any of these settings, it doesn't work.
It's kind of a weird implementation of a touchscreen menu. I still appreciate it because it has,
you can punch in to zoom, change your focus point,
or check your focus. In the menu we actually have DNG resolution,
you can change it from 60, 36 or 18.
So when you take an image at 36 megapixels
it will use the full 60 megapixel resolution
compress all the pixels down to 36 megapixels.
So you're essentially taking your full resolution of the sensor and getting extra stop of dynamic range
by using a lower resolution in the camera. This can also go down to 18 megapixels.
So if you need both smaller file sizes for the photos
so you don't need to blow up your image or you don't want as much resolution
but you still want the performance of the sensor, you're giving up resolution that you didn't need
for extra dynamic range and better noise performance.
So Andy and I were very curious since we both own different M cameras, I own an M10
and Andy owns an M9, how it compares to the M11.
Wow, that is much louder already.
The shutter is so much slower and the display is horrible.
This is the display I'm working with. I can't even tell if this photo is in focus on this thing.
Okay, so we're gonna go back to the office now and compare the differences
between these three photos and look at some photos that we've already taken on this camera.
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So here's this first photo of Cloverdale Coin Laundry. And right off the bat, you can tell the color
is what I would expect from a Leica camera, it's not overly saturated.
It has kind of a warmer tone, even though it's an overcast day in this shot,
you could post this photo as it is. You wouldn't really need to do that much editing
if you didn't want to. And that's kind of the nice thing about cameras like this and most cameras these days,
you don't have to force yourself to do a bunch of editing that you don't want to do
if you don't want to do it because this camera produces an image that is good already.
I actually have a previous edit from a couple days ago
and I'm just gonna apply the settings from that, man.
I think that's one of your advantages with post on most Leica cameras, but particularly this one
is the color is so easy to work with in Lightroom.
And I didn't really do anything that special with this photo. And it looks really good already.
So Jono just asked what the file sizes on some of these photos are, they're about 17 megabytes each
which doesn't sound like a lot but it's one photo being that amount.
And then you times that by a thousand it'll add up. So this is that photo we took outside
that was at 64 ISO and dang!
That is a clean image.
The last thing I wanna look at with these photos is the comparison that we did
between the M9, the M10 and the M11. I know which ones are which, but just right off the bat
let's just take a look from left to right here. You can see how much more dynamic range is in the M11,
the M10 and the M9 are right up against
on the left in the shadows whereas the M11, that kind of nice gradient up.
And you can see it in the photo itself. If you look at this furniture barn building,
the shadows look like they've been lifted in Lightroom
but that's just because the camera itself has that much more dynamic range.
The sky in the M11 photo has a cleaner roll off .
On paper, doesn't feel like a couple stops of dynamic range might be that big of a deal
but in really harsh scenarios where the sun is right behind the building
and you're trying to get the sky and whatever is in shadow,
you want the detail for both, that might be the difference between getting a good shot
and not a good shot with the M10 and M11. So here's a bunch photos I took with the M11
the two weeks I had it. I mean, as you can see it doesn't take that much editing
'cause I didn't touch these that much to make the photos look pretty good, in my opinion,
and 60 megapixels is more than any M camera has ever had.
And if you want that resolution to blow up your photos or maybe you're doing commercial work
and you want some fun stuff and you're using an M camera for commercial work, I don't know how common that is,
but the resolution is there if you want it. And I think that this is a pretty good upgrade.
So thank you guys for watching. If you guys want me to check out another camera
that we've never featured on this channel, let me know in the comment down below and please subscribe.