M10 - the Image Thread

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Chris and Nowehereman thanks for your interesting images. Being myself on a waiting list ( I'm patient!) I'm curious of the result in interiors shots from the M10. Most of images in this thread  are good but shots in good light therefore not so interesting for me. I hope you'll share more! Thanks again

robert

 

Robert - Below is an indoor shot followed by three street night shots all at ISO 3200, generally with mixed lighting. As I see it, the M10 makes it much easier to deal with the inevitable color casts of mixed lights than the M9. Also, I see ISO 3200 on the M10 to be somewhat similar in terms of digital noise to ISO 640 on the M9, the look of which I generally liked. I also include a B&W conversion in Silver Efex of an image shot directly into strong sunlight — the look of the highlights is in my view similar what you might get shooting, say, Tri-X directly into such strong light.

 

My impression of the M10 is similar to those of the conclusions of a friend who is a professional photographer with great color sense: he said that the M10 is operationally night and day from the M9, and feels like the Leica M that we all wanted when the M8 was released; that he has the impression that with a few adjustments in Lightroom one can get pretty close to the M9 look — though he thinks that there is still something inexplicably special about that look; that, compared to the M9, the M10 sensor is almost too good, in that it can have something of a homogenizing effect; that the M9 was a challenge, especially in low light, but sometimes challenges pay off in better images, like using film; that probably with the M10 one may have to "rough up" the image somewhat; and that the M10 B&W conversions look very good, though it seems that the MM is better, but again, depending on post-processing, it could really be splitting hairs.

 

 

Summicron 35v4

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Summilux 50 pre-ASPH

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Summilux 50 pre-ASPH

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Summilux 50 pre-ASPH

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Summicron 35v4 | ISO 200 | f/5.6 | 1/180 sec

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[chris_tribble]

Mitch, thanks for images and interesting comment. I the end I think one of the delights of the M10 is that I have to spend less time splitting hairs

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Robert - here is a picture of indoors shot from outdoors, at ISO 3200.

 

Generally, I find that ISO 3200 on the M10 is similar to ISO 640 on the M9, which I liked for its somewhat film grain-like noise — but M10 images shot  at this speed in difficult, mixed light are much easier to process for color cast and in lifting shadows, for which there seems to be less need than with the M9.

 

M10 | Summilux 35 ASPH-FLE | ISO 3200

Paris

 

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[robert blu]

Thanks for these low light shots and related comments,  very interesting. Now I only have to wait, patiently...

robert

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Some of the comments here seem to be suggesting only a 2 stop benfit in noise of the M10'compared to the M9. This seems more than a little conservative to my eyes. Am I misunderstanding something?

[Wonzo]

A 2 stop advantage over the 240 makes much more sense to me, at least a 1 1/2 benefit. This covers the experience I have made with the M10 so far. 

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Pure, Magic.

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M10 with Summilux 50 pre-ASPH at ISO 3200:

 

 

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[Magic]

Great - love all your Paris shots

[Wonzo]

Two Berlin shots at night:

 

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ISO 3200

 

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ISO 6400

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Leica M10 - Zeiss ZM25/2.8

 

Meteora - Greece by Nicholas T, on Flickr

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[chris_tribble]

Nico - thanks for the prompt to post more B&W renders. I've not had the pleasure of owning a Monochrome M, but I must say I don't feel that I'm left too far out in the cold. I'm currently in Narva, Estonia. The first shot is of how many of the streets here look (the city was largely destroyed in WW2.  The second shot is from the city across to Russia. 

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Am traveling and so busy that I've only been able to shoot a bit at night, and have continued with ISO 3200. 

 

My hotel is around the corner from the Leica Store - Mayfair. I stopped in briefly and met Sarah M. Lee, who was buying her second M10, a camera about she very excited. A freelance photographer for the Guardian and the Observer — newspapers these days largely don't have staff photographer — she's a great talent, with originality and a great sense of color; her B&W work is also exciting. If you want inspiration for you work, I highly recommend you look at the projects on her excellent website.

 

Leica M10 | Summicron 35v4 | ISO 3200 | f/2.8 | 1/125 sec

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Back from Estonia - part of the work involved covering a conference.  Normally I'd have the Canon 5D3 and image stabilised 70-200 L f2.8 + monopod.  This time I had been travelling as light as I could and had two M10s with lenses: 21 / 28 / 35 / 50 / 75 / 135.  They all got used - but the revelation has been 6400 + the 135 A-T.  The image here of a keynote speaker was taken hand held - no NR has been applied.  100% crop follows.  It does the job!  I needed the high iso because the light was horrible - the speaker in shadow with a brightly lit presentation screen to the right and a second smaller one to the left.

 

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Leica M10 - Zeiss ZM25/2.8

 

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Lovely image!

 

reminds me of Ansel Adam's Mount Williamson

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M10 | Summilux 50 pre-ASPH | ISO 3200

Paris

 

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M10 | Summilux 50 pre-ASPH | ISO 3200

Paris

 

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