Illaron Posted June 17, 2020 Share #1 Â Posted June 17, 2020 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can anyone point me to a good hands-on comparison between the two latest Monochrom versions? I have been on the fence regarding the M246, but not my decision has gotten more complicated. I understand the increase in megapixels could be advantageous, but how wide is the gap in other image related areas? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 Hi Illaron, Take a look here M10 Monochrom vs M246. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jaapv Posted June 17, 2020 Share #2  Posted June 17, 2020 All three Monochroms are different in rendering . A matter of taste. In real life the megapixel jump is the least of considerations. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soden Posted June 17, 2020 Share #3  Posted June 17, 2020 13 minutes ago, jaapv said: All three Monochroms are different in rendering . A matter of taste. In real life the megapixel jump is the least of considerations. I find the M10 renders closer to the M9 than the M240. Is that also true of the M10m, that it renders closer to the M9m than the M246? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwesi Posted June 17, 2020 Share #4 Â Posted June 17, 2020 Here is a link to the most objective comparison to date: https://www.reddotforum.com/content/2020/05/bw-iso-showdown-2020-leica-m10-monochrom-vs-m-monochrom-typ-246-vs-m10-p-vs-sl2/ Â Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikep996 Posted June 17, 2020 Share #5 Â Posted June 17, 2020 WOW! Â That is an extremely impressive/thorough test! Â I had no interest in a monochrome camera whatsoever - couldn't see the point since you can just convert the M10 output to B/W. Â I have to rethink that... Â Â 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted June 17, 2020 Share #6 Â Posted June 17, 2020 Discussion here... Jeff 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raid Amin Posted June 19, 2020 Share #7 Â Posted June 19, 2020 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) On 6/17/2020 at 6:36 AM, Kwesi said: Here is a link to the most objective comparison to date: https://www.reddotforum.com/content/2020/05/bw-iso-showdown-2020-leica-m10-monochrom-vs-m-monochrom-typ-246-vs-m10-p-vs-sl2/ Â Thank you for this testing. Now comes the difficult task to pick one of these beauties. I have been uncertain which one to pick for a while, but it was mainly choosing between M10. M10P, SL. and SL2. Now add to the mix the M10 Monochrom or M 246. Edited June 19, 2020 by Raid Amin 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illaron Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share #8 Â Posted June 29, 2020 On 6/17/2020 at 2:36 PM, Kwesi said: Here is a link to the most objective comparison to date: https://www.reddotforum.com/content/2020/05/bw-iso-showdown-2020-leica-m10-monochrom-vs-m-monochrom-typ-246-vs-m10-p-vs-sl2/ Â Thanks for this link. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkmoore Posted June 29, 2020 Share #9 Â Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) On 6/19/2020 at 4:21 PM, Raid Amin said: Thank you for this testing. Now comes the difficult task to pick one of these beauties. I have been uncertain which one to pick for a while, but it was mainly choosing between M10. M10P, SL. and SL2. Now add to the mix the M10 Monochrom or M 246. 100% M10M all day of those two choices. Â I had the M246 2-3 times and never grew to like it for a myriad of reasons. The M10M was love out of the box. (Even more so than the M9M which I adore to this day) Edited June 29, 2020 by dkmoore 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikep996 Posted June 29, 2020 Share #10  Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) OTOH, we used to just choose whether to put some color film in the camera or some B/W film in the camera.  Now we need two 7-8000 USD cameras to do the same thing? HEY...that's progress for you!  Edited June 29, 2020 by Mikep996 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff S Posted June 29, 2020 Share #11  Posted June 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, Mikep996 said: OTOH, we used to just choose whether to put some color film in the camera or some B/W film in the camera.  Now we need two 7-8000 USD cameras to do the same thing? HEY...that's progress for you!  We’ll find out if the expected M10-R changes that equation for some.  Jeff Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
convexferret Posted June 29, 2020 Share #12  Posted June 29, 2020 As an owner of both cameras, the M10M since last week, I'll mention the two things that are impressing me * It's an M10, so the body is much nicer in the hand, more responsive, the EVF is better when I need it etc etc * The sensor is astonishing. I have useable handheld portraits in moonlight at 100,000 ISO and have found that at base ISO I can underexpose a backlit subject by 5 stops, hold detail in the sky around the sun and still bring back the foreground with negligible noise. Taking banding into account, which was what limited the M246 high ISO to 10,000 for me, I'm happy to shoot at 50,000 without fear and my 100,000 ISO shots are mostly usable without noise reduction. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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