{"id":20173,"date":"2024-11-21T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/2024\/11\/21\/leicas-new-glossy-black-paint-m11-and-noctilux-m-50mm-f-1-2-asph-age-with-style\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T15:11:00","slug":"leicas-new-shiny-black-paint-m11-and-noctilux-m-50mm-f-1-2-asph-age-with-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/2024\/11\/21\/leicas-new-shiny-black-paint-m11-and-noctilux-m-50mm-f-1-2-asph-age-with-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Leica\u2019s New Shiny Black Paint M11 and Noctilux-M 50mm f\/1.2 ASPH. Age with Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Someday after saying its best income ever, Leica unveiled new, shiny black editions of its M11 virtual rangefinder digital camera and well-liked Noctilux-M 50mm f\/1.2 ASPH. lens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose designs have a good time the undying aesthetic and remarkably intricate craftsmanship that experience set Leica aside for many years,\u201d the mythical German digital camera corporate says. <\/p>\n

The Leica M-Gadget is celebrating its seventieth anniversary this yr \u2014 the Leica M collection began with the M3\u2019s release in 1954 \u2014 and Leica believes its shiny black paint model of the M11 and 50mm f\/1.2 lens are the \u201cpurest and most powerful expression of the vintage Leica glance.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Like different black paint Leica cameras, extremely coveted amongst creditors, the brand new M11 guarantees to turn its brass body throughout the paint because it wears, growing a novel patina. Whilst indicators of damage are most often no longer fascinating for plenty of cameras, for Leica black paint fashions, it is regarded as a novel appeal. As slightly of historical past, Leica\u2019s first black paint end digital camera to be had to the general public used to be in 1962, when the corporate launched a black paint M3. <\/p>\n

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In comparison to the usual Leica M11, the shiny black paint M11 appears to be like fairly other. The controls are in the similar location, however the digital camera\u2019s most sensible deck is significantly other. Whilst the usual M11 has a simple most sensible deck product of aluminum, the shiny black version has an engraved Leica emblem on most sensible of its new brass most sensible deck. The shutter unlock additionally adjustments from a flat black to a sparkly silver. Whilst in the similar spot as prior to, the regulate dials function a brand new cross-hatch knurling in comparison to the usual M11\u2019s vertical ridges. <\/p>\n

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Shiny black paint Leica M11 with the brand new shiny black paint Noctilux-M 50mm f\/1.2 ASPH.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Transferring to the entrance of the digital camera, long gone is Leica\u2019s trademark crimson dot emblem in choose of a black screw. <\/p>\n

At the within, the shiny black paint Leica M11 is equal to the usual model. It has a 60-megapixel BSI CMOS symbol sensor with Triple Solution Era (virtual crop mode with other megapixel counts), 0.73x optical viewfinder, 64GB interior garage (it additionally accepts a UHS-II SD card), and a local ISO vary of 64 to 50,000. <\/p>\n

Debuting along the digital camera, the shiny black paint version of the Noctilux-M 50mm f\/1.2 ASPH. lens targets to be the \u201ceasiest visible fit\u201d for the M-Digital camera with its glossy black end. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThis design variant of the lens is in line with the collection fashion, which changed into well-known for its top symbol high quality and light-weight depth, in addition to its unmistakable bokeh,\u201d Leica explains. <\/p>\n

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To compare its end, the lens comes with a shiny black spherical lens hood, shiny black paint entrance and rear lens caps, and crimson \u201ctoes\u201d markings on the focal point vary scale, which might be orange on the usual black model. <\/p>\n

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The guide focal point lens options six parts throughout 4 teams, together with a couple of aspherical parts, and is designed to ship a \u201cmoderately comfortable\u201d rendering, like vintage Noctilux lenses. This redesigned lens used to be re-released in 2021 in black and silver colorways, even though the silver version used to be restricted to simply 100 devices at release, that have been briefly snapped up. <\/p>\n

Pricing and Availability <\/h2>\n

The Leica M11 shiny black paint is to be had now for $9,195, a $200 top rate over the usual black model. The brand new Noctilux-M 50mm f\/1.2 ASPH. in shiny black paint may be to be had these days and retails for $8,295, $300 greater than the common black model of the lens. <\/p>\n\n

Symbol credit:<\/strong> Leica <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someday after saying its best income ever, Leica unveiled new, shiny black editions of its M11 virtual rangefinder digital camera and well-liked Noctilux-M 50mm f\/1.2 ASPH. lens. \u201cThose designs have a good time the undying aesthetic and remarkably intricate craftsmanship that experience set Leica aside for many years,\u201d the mythical German digital camera corporate says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/11\/leica-m11-black-paint-featured.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20174,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173\/revisions\/20174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}