rscheffler wrote:
...Here's what Dave Farkas says... The M11 impresses when it comes to dynamic range and file malleability. Like most Leica cameras there is massive amounts of shadow detail, especially at lower ISO settings. But unlike those other cameras, the M11 can extract details from some extremely bright highlights...Only later in the computer when I pulled the exposure down two stops and saw how much information was in those blown highlights, did I truly appreciate the insane recovery ability of this camera...
I had no interest in the greater resolution of the M10-R over the M10; nor am I interested in the still greater resolution of the M11. Similar to what others have stated, I like the 100g lighter weight of the black M11 and its multi-field metering when shooting in rangefinder mode; but that is not enough to make me want to buy it to replace my M10.
My own view is essentially that the 60 MP resolution, which has increasingly been referred to as "medium-format territory", is not what I am after having been been interested, since film days, in the "35 mm aesthetic" for my photography; and considering that the look I want is easier to achieve from a lower resolution image, as in the image below.
On the other hand, some of the reviews suggest that highlight rendition of the M11 can achieve a gentler (more film-like) highlight roll-off; but I'm not yet sure how that plays out in the three DNG resolutions (60, 36, 18 MP) of the M11. And I am interested in seeing more on how the color rendition, supposedly like the SLS-2 differs among the three resolutions.
These above are the main things that interest me in the M11; and, since we're now going into another Covid peak, there is no rush for me to decide, since I'm not likely to be shooting much in any case, as I won't be getting back to Paris and Bangkok for some time — I'm in he Washington, DC area now. Also, I have the new Ricoh GR IIIx, in addition to my Ricoh GR III, and, of course, my M10. In the meantime, I'll be watching what others find and conclude.
Below is an image that I like a lot, and which I doubt would be improved, or made more easy to make with the M11. Taken at noon, the light in the street was so bright that you had to squint if you didn't wear sunglasses.
M10 | Summaron-M 1:5.6/28 | ISO 200 | f/5.6 | 1/60 | Chiang Mai
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