Gregory Simpson's M Monochrom review: witty, insightful, fair

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Apropos Mike Funnell's sig as well ...

Excellent review, thanks for sharing the link.
 
That's probably the most valuable camera review I've ever read.

grEGORY writes well, and explains very well why the MM is a useful innovation. Theoretically the MM was interesting, but now I actually understand what I would get out of it.
 
Keith said:
Says it all ..... 😀
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Almost all, and I agree with Gregory Simpson's conclusions that this is the best digital camera that I [he] ever used. But I would add one thing 😀 ...

While high-ISO on the M-Monochrom is great, by the time that you get to ISO 5,000 and 10,000 the dynamic range becomes narrow — and, when shooting on the street at night, getting the "right exposure" is often a hit or miss affair.

The solution is similar to that for high-ISO photography with the M9 [Shoot at ISO 640 and push in Lightroom 5] — for the M-Monochrom the solution is to Shoot at ISO 1,250 and push in Lightroom 5. (This latter solution was suggested by Jim Kasson, who did extensive testing of the M9 technique, and extrapolated the ISO 1250 technique for the M-Monochrom.)



M-Monochrom | Summilux-50 pre-ASPH | ISO 1250 pushed 3 stops on main subject | f/4.0 / 1/250

Paris




M-Monochrom | Summilux-50 pre-ASPH | ISO 1250 pushed 1.5 stops on main subject | f/2.8 / 1/125

Paris



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tstermitz said:
That's probably the most valuable camera review I've ever read.

grEGORY writes well, and explains very well why the MM is a useful innovation. Theoretically the MM was interesting, but now I actually understand what I would get out of it.
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This^^^. I enjoyed the review, even though I cannot possibly afford the camera.
 
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