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hmzimelka wrote:
Compared to the M10M I had, the M11 feels somewhat more refined in every aspect except its firmware, which as you know is still rough around the edges.
The battery is indeed amazing, but my use case I only get about 700 shots over a span of 7-10 days with little to no live view shooting. Which is good enough. I do need to review my images a lot, because the light metering, in my opinion, is unreliable, so I need to check almost every image whether it got it right or borked it up...
One thing I did notice is that when exposure metering is set to permanent in LV mode, then the instance for Rangefinder metering to be incorrect compared to LV metering is much much higher.
If I were you, I would leave the exposure preview to Half Button Depress, or confirm if your camera has an exposure discrepancy between LV and Rangefinder focusing. In my case, the differences are quite high in Rangefinder mode overexposing at times over 1EV brighter than in LV mode with Multi-Segment metering.
I've changed my camera back to exposure preview on shutter depress and its made it a lot better. Now differences between shooting modes are usually only 1/3 EV if anything.
Highlight metering, ist sehr kaput!
I'm a long time Nikon shooter, and I have to say that while the 60MP sensor in the M11 is very nice with exception of this ridiculous bifurcation issue which still exists  , I somehow still prefer the files off my D850. The seem a little more robust. I honestly don't think the M11 has a Sony Sensor.
Maybe its my years of experience with the D800, D810 and D850 files compared to my relatively new experience with Leica... not sure. I just find the Leica M11 default profile to be a bit crude and oversaturated. Looking at the M11 profile with dcpTool it seems rather simplistic, which probably explains why I have issues with it in more complex colour scenarios like sunsets, where clipping and colour transitions in the red and oranges can be less than desired. Hopefully Leica can work on this more over time. It behaves very much like a simple profile from a 24CC chart and X-Rite's or Adobe's DNG profiling software. Those profiles are also fairly useless since 24 colour patches are just too few for a solid profile.
I'm happier with Adobe's more conservative Standard Profile which has a long list of colour matrixes and tone curve adjustments.
I've also needed to, more often than not, take with a grey card for setting the cameras WB. I find the Auto WB to be a bit all over the place, and to be a little too magenta biased for my preference.
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Cool shot and the kind of thing that 60mp looks really good with at high magnification. It's easy to get lost looking at detailed images on screen with the M11 much like with the GFX 100 cameras. Nikon's customizations to Sony's sensors are really good. 45mp on the D850 is a pretty nice sweet spot with regard to resolution and RAW pliability in post. I loved the output from my old Nikon Df with Zeiss ZF glass. Except for the lower resolution (in today's terms), that sensor's output is still a mental benchmark for me.
I didn't notice much difference in rangefinder mode exposure accuracy when changing the permanent versus shutter-press exposure preview. I'm pretty sure Leica knows that metering in general on the M11 needs to be refined across multiple situations for consistency and accuracy. I think it was the addition of highlight-weighted metering mode that just ripped off that scab and is forcing them to fix it all top-to-bottom. If they only fix highlight-weighted and not the rest, I'll be bummed.
I'm using C1, and the M11 profile seems pretty good. I think C1 needs to improve the default setting for the M11 noise handling just ever so slightly. Their default noise setting for the GFX 100S is much better when comparing both at the pixel level. It could just be a difference in the sensor customizations for each manufacturer, though.
Magenta bias is something I'm used to from the original GFX 50S/50R. That was waaaay more magenta-biased than the M11, almost to the point of looking like it was added in post via split toning. But once you see too much magenta, you can't unsee it  – so when it does happen on the M11, I do notice it. Sometimes I just set my cameras to Daylight WB and forget about it.
I know some Leica shooters might think it trite and/or unnecessary, but I wish Leica would partner with the current owner of Kodak's intellectual property to provide several in-camera JPEG Kodak film simulations, similar to how Fujifilm draws from their own film stock past/present. I don't care as much about using the simulations in camera, but I loved getting to use Fujifilm's in C1 on RAW files as a starting point for edits sometimes. I need to try the Mastin Lab's presets I have on the M11 to see how they work – really like their Ektar sim.
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). The weight reduction – it does not feel cheaper and hollow like the Q cameras do. I think it actually feels like the weight an M camera should have been all along.
