SIMPLICITY
Code: #10945
Leica M-D (Typ 262)
A step back to the future
Leica - no other camera manufacturer is dedicated to focusing on 'Das Wesentliche' - the sheer essentials of photography. As a result, Leica has developed the Leica M-D: a camera that delivers photography in the most consistent way. A camera that offers no more and no less than the most important features, and represents a state-of-the-art digital rangefinder
Photography in its purest form. Simplicity personified, photographers using the Leica M-D for the first time will instinctively and intuitively know how to use it. With the deliberate omission of anything but the essentials, the Leica M-D provides the greatest freedom to focus on creativity and capturing the decisive moment every time.
SIMPLICITY
Complete concentration
Maximum clarity
The Leica M-D has everything a camera needs: manual settings for ISO values, apertures and shutter speeds. The essentials for uncompromising simplicity.
Less technology, more creative freedom
Focused on photography
The Leica M-D offers the ultimate in digital rangefinder photography. No LCD screen leads to more freedom for creative photography.
Typical M
Exceptional picture quality
As is the case with all M-Cameras, the Leica M-D delivers exceptional picture quality. It also remains true to its purist origins - by capturing exposures exclusively in DNG format.
Complete concentration
The Leica M-D has no LCD monitor screen and no menu system. Apart from the essential parameters for photography – shutter speed, aperture, distance and ISO values – it offers no further setting options. The consequence is photography in its purest form. Every photographer knows instinctively how to use the Leica M-D. No distractions – not even after each exposure. In a way, the Leica M-D is an homage to the experience of capturing pictures on film. It brings back the joy of anticipation of waiting to see how our pictures turned out.
Less technology, more creative freedom
By deliberately omitting technical features such as Live View or video capture, the Leica M-D takes photography back to its purest level – allowing photographers to concentrate solely on the subject before them. Without the temptation to view the captured image immediately after exposure or share it with the person or subjects featured in the picture. The Leica M-D directs attention entirely on the composition. It consistently shifts the focus to the creative aspects of each subject – less technology for more creativity.
Typical M
As is the case with all M-Cameras, the Leica M-D delivers exceptional picture quality. Its Leica Maestro image processor and 24 MP still CMOS sensor represent the state of the art of digital rangefinder photography, yet it remains consistently true to its purist origins – by capturing exposures exclusively in DNG format. This guarantees that all options are available for digital image processing.
Unique
Purism also characterises its design: by the omission of the Leica red dot logo, LCD monitor screen and menu controls, and a body finished completely in black, the Leica M-D is the epitome of understatement. From the baseplate and matching leather carrying strap provided with the camera, to the top plate in brass with the stepped edge design reminiscent of the Leica M9. The Leica M-D is the pure ideal among rangefinder cameras. With an ISO setting dial placed in precisely the same location as a film speed indicator, the Leica M-D pays homage to its film-based predecessors, carrying the philosophy of its analogue ancestry forward into the digital age.
Absolute discretion
The Leica M-D features an almost silent shutter that enables exceptionally discreet photography. This is due to a shutter cocking system that is considerably quieter in single exposure mode than that of the M (Typ 240) and enables a shutter release frequency of up to two frames per second. In continuous mode, the M-D has the same sequential shooting speed as its sister model and shoots up to three frames per second.
| Camera type |
Compact digital view and range finder system camera |
| Lens attachment |
Leica M bayonet with additional sensor for 6-bit coding |
| Lens system |
Leica M lenses from 16 to 135 mm |
| Picture format/ image sensor |
CMOS type, active area approx. 23.9 x 35.8 mm (corresponds to usable format of analog Leica M models) |
| Resolution |
5976 x 3992 pixels (24 MP) |
| Data format |
DNGTM (raw data), compressed loss-free, JPEG |
| File size |
Depends on subject |
| Buffer memory |
1 GB |
| Storage media |
SD cards up to 2 GB, SDHC cards up to 32 GB, SDXC cards |
| Exposure metering |
Ambient light: Through the lens (TTL), with working aperture, flash light: TTL metering with system-compatible, SCA-3000/2-standard flash units |
| Metering principle/ method |
By metering the light reflected by light blades of the 1st shutter curtain onto a measuring cell: strong center-weighted; for metering on the sensor: spot, center-weighted, multi-field metering. |
| Metering range |
Metering the light reflected by light blades of the 1st shutter curtain onto a measuring cell: heavily center-weighted |
| Sensitivity range |
ISO 200 bis ISO 6400, can be set manually in 1/3 ISO steps |
| Exposure mode |
Choice of automatic shutter speed control with manual aperture preselection – aperture priority A, or manual shutter speed and aperture setting |
| Flash exposure control |
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| Flash unit attachment |
Via accessory shoe with central and control contacts |
| Synchronization |
To the 1st shutter curtain |
| Flash sync speed |
= 1/180 s; slower shutter speeds can be used if sync time is not met: automatic switching to TTL linear flash mode with HSS-compatible Leica system flash units |
| Flash exposure metering | With system-compatible flash units, control with center-weighted TTL pre-flash metering |
| Flash exposure compensation | Flash units with the appropriate specifications: in all modes ±3 EV in 1/3 EV steps |
| Displays in flash mode | Readiness: by means of constant lighting of the flash symbol LED in the viewfinder, success control: by further lighting or temporary fast flashing of the LED after the picture has been taken, underexposure display: by the LED going out temporarily |
| Viewfinder | |
| Viewfinder principle | Large, bright, combined bright-line viewfinder with automatic parallax compensation |
| Eyepiece | Calibrated to - 0.5 dpt., corrective lenses from -3 to +3 diopter available |
| Image field indication | By activating two bright-line frames each: for 35 and 135 mm, or for 28 and 90 mm, or for 50 and 75 mm; automatic switching when lens is attached; frame color: white |
| Parallax compensation | The horizontal and vertical difference between the viewfinder and lens is automatically balanced by moving the bright- line frame in line with the relevant distance setting |
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