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Four months for me in Montreal, ordered on Jan 25, received on May 30. My dealer told me four months was the typical wait.

My dealer just advised me that I can now register my 11 online, and he was right. So, everyone, go ahead and register. Enjoy.

I ordered my M11 on January 25th and got it four months later. The store told me this was the typical wait for their customers.

I got the same reply from Leica, and filed it under "Lost in translation."

One thing puzzles me about the M11. Leica focusses upon minimalism, and yet in the M11 they added programmable function buttons. At the same time as they did this, they added menu items to the touch-screen. I find that changing functions using the touch-screen is just as simple and direct as using a function button. The touch-screen meets all my needs and I can't see a function button doing something that the touch-screen cannot do. Perhaps others can. Please let me know. To my mind these buttons are redundant, and the M11 would be better without them.

The sensor cleaning function still exists. Go to "Camera Settings" and scroll down to "Sensor cleaning." This function prevents the shutter from closing inadvertently while you are in cleaning mode.

I had the same problem, and received this reply from Leica, "Regrettably, we have some issues with registering our Leica products at the moment. For unexplainable reasons, relevant product data has not been transferred to our server. Please apologize for the inconvenience."

This is an observation, not a complaint. Previous digital M cameras had a dust detection feature, but not the M11. While this feature was available on the M10-R, I never got it to work, and I tried many times. I would always receive an "Image inhomogeneous" message. My guess is that Leica has decided that this function will not work on high-resolution sensors.

I tried the blank Word document approach. Still no luck, still "Image inhomogeneous." My lens was a 50mm.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try. Previously I had set my focus at minimum distance rather than infinity, and that may be the problem.

Thanks. Makes sense. However, I tried walls many times before trying a computer screen, and my Prima Donna didn't like them either. BTW, I'm the owner of the only "Prima Donna" Leica M10-R ever made. Collectors may contact me.

I tried again, setting ISO to 100, cleaning the screen of my Mac, opening a blank Word document, and using a 90 mm F4 Macro lens. I took repeated shots, setting the computer screen at different levels of brightness (to see if that made a difference). I also took shots with the lens focussed at infinity and at the closest focussing distance, with the lens extended, and collapsed. No luck. Every shot was "image inhomogeneous." Conclusion : my particular M10-R is a Prima Donna.

That's a possibility. The camera was set to Auto ISO, so I'll try again with ISO set to 100. I followed hbgdiver's example, and used a blank word document. I used a 90mm F4 macro lens, as all other lenses had too wide a field of view for the size of my computer screen. Set it at F22, and at a distance of about 9 inches. I'll try again, and I welcome any suggestions.

@ hbgdiver. Tried it. "Image inhomogeneous."

Given my lack of success with Dust Detection mode on the M10-R, I followed earlier advice here, and took an image of a blank white computer screen. I then bumped up the exposure and magnification of this image. To my disappointment, I found specks of dust everywhere. However, this raises a different problem - how can I determine whether these are specks of dust on the sensor, or specks of dust on the computer screen? Before taking the image, I cleaned the computer screen thoroughly, but these specks are minute, and the screen attracts dust. There is no way of telling where the dust specks are, so it seems to me that this approach creates its own problems. I'll wait until specks appear on my images - or until Leica fixes this issue.

Followed your advice, several times. "Image inhomogeneous."

I tried it, several times, with the same result : "Image inhomogeneous."

I also cannot get dust detection to work. I posted about the same issue on July 23rd, and received no reply. Here is that earlier post :- Like others, I am delighted with the M10-R. I also proudly/humbly take pride in finding an area where the M10-R falls short relative to the M10. It is - drumroll! - Dust Detection. The reason I tried the camera’s Dust Detection capabilities is not because I am anal and think this is the best use for an M10-R. Rather, it is because Jaapv once posted that a new camera’s shutter curtain may shed oil, specks and suchlike onto the sensor when first used. I decided to check how clean the sensor was, and to monitor if it changed. Dust detection on the M10 was simple. It involved finding any smooth and homogeneous surface and taking a defocussed image of it. Given its significant increase in resolution, the M10-R is more likely than the M10 to see minute irregularities in the image as dust on the sensor. Consequently it seems to have more rigorous dust detection logic and is more demanding of dust detection images. Whenever I found a surface which seemed uniform and uniformly lit, I took a defocussed Dust Detection image. I have yet to take an image which does not yield the warning “image inhomogeneous.” I would be interested in learning whether other M10-R users have had more success than I have had. The M10-R may have advanced dust detection capabilities, but they are useless if they reject every test image. This is trivial and does not detract from my delight in the camera, but is an area where Leica could do some work. Perhaps two grades of dust detection - Medium and High?

It's my impression that that my M10-R battery drains faster than the M-10's. I'm not being scientific about it. My habits are no different for the two cameras, but at the end of a day's stroll and casual picture-taking, the M-10R's battery seems to have discharged more. I attribute it to the need for greater image processing demands. It doesn't concern me; I'm just more attentive to ensuring that the camera is charged before I go out.

In April 2015, before Adobe adopted a subscription-only policy, I bought a copy of Adobe Lightroom. In April 2016 I upgraded to a new MacBook. When I transferred files and programs to it, Lightroom would not work and I had to download it again from the Adobe website. I did not download the most recent version of Lightroom; I downloaded the version I had purchased and owned outright. Adobe made it needlessly complicated to do so, so much so that I had to make repeated attempts and needed to document all my steps before I finally succeeded. I suspected that they were trying to induce me to subscribe. In March 2020 I upgraded my computer once again, and once again I was obliged to download Lightroom from the Adobe website. I referred to the procedures I had previously documented and easily downloaded Lightroom. As before, I downloaded the version which I had purchased and owned, not the most recent version. Adobe then advised me that I needed to download an installer and referred me to the appropriate installer program for my version of Lightroom. I downloaded this, only to receive an error message that the installer and the program it was trying to install were incompatible - the program was 64-bit, while the installer was 32-bit. Colour me cynical, but I do not believe that this incompatibility was an accident, I do not believe that I am the first Lightroom owner to experience this problem, and I do not believe that Adobe is unaware of this problem. I had no success getting around this roadblock, and so can no longer use Lightroom. I now refuse to use Adobe and instead use Apple “Photos” which came free and pre-installed with my Mac. For my modest needs, it is adequate. Have any others had a similar experience, and have you found a workaround?

My theory is that the problem is not with the camera but with our brains. Our eyes focus upon objects thousands of times per day, and they do it the same way that the Leica does, by aligning the image from each eye. The brain is programmed to focus horizontally, because our eyes are aligned horizontally. However, we cannot easily focus by aligning vertically as our eyes and brains are not set up for this. If I try to focus vertically, it is hard to see the focus patch and hard to do. I suspect that my eyes do not even register the focus patch as it is not something they are pre-programmed to be aware of. Even if I succeed, it is easier and faster to focus horizontally and then rotate the camera vertically to compose. I would love to hear if there is anyone who finds it as easy to focus vertically as horizontally.

44 MB M10-R file downsized to 44 KB. Make of it what you will.

Like others, I am delighted with the M10-R. I also proudly/humbly take pride in finding an area where the M10-R falls short relative to the M10. It is - drumroll! - Dust Detection. The reason I tried the camera’s Dust Detection capabilities is not because I am anal and think this is the best use for an M10-R. Rather, it is because Jaapv once posted that a new camera’s shutter curtain may shed oil, specks and suchlike onto the sensor when first used. I decided to check how clean the sensor was, and to monitor if it changed. Dust detection on the M10 was simple. It involved finding any smooth and homogeneous surface and taking a defocussed image of it. Given its significant increase in resolution, the M10-R is more likely than the M10 to see minute irregularities in the image as dust on the sensor. Consequently it seems to have more rigorous dust detection logic and is more demanding of dust detection images. Whenever I found a surface which seemed uniform and uniformly lit, I took a defocussed Dust Detection image. I have yet to take an image which does not yield the warning “image inhomogeneous.” I would be interested in learning whether other M10-R users have had more success than I have had. The M10-R may have advanced dust detection capabilities, but they are useless if they reject every test image. This is trivial and does not detract from my delight in the camera, but is an area where Leica could do some work. Perhaps two grades of dust detection - Medium and High?