Though 35mm has always been viewed as the quintessential documentary focal length, you’ll also know I’ve never really gotten on with it – I’ve always thought it too long to be dramatic, and too wide to be isolating. Regular readers will be familiar with my preference for this focal length, and my devotion to the Ricoh GR because of its blend of pocketability, performance and that focal length. After all, it shares a 24MP (CMOSIS?) sensor, and has a whole host of other improvements like a much better (touch) LCD and autofocus. But if it did, it’d probably kill the Ms. I’ll start with the main ‘if only’ and get it out of the way: if only it had interchangeable lenses. Images in this review were processed with Photoshop Workflow II. And a big thank you must be given to the folks at Leica Malaysia for the loan camera. As you can probably tell from the sample images, during the limited time I’ve had to shot with the camera, the weather/light quality has best been described as ‘hmmm, painterly’.
I wil be uploading additional images as time goes along with to this set on Flickr. Images in this review were all shot with a final production Q Typ 116 running firmware 1.0.
I was disappointed I couldn’t get a M246 Monochrom to test, especially against the D810. If only the M had a built in EVF…if only the S had more pixels…if only the T was a bit smoother operationally…if only the Xs had viewfinders (and were 28mm). All have excited me in some way or other, but also left me with the feeling ‘if only’. I have owned and reviewed many Leicas in the past, from Ms, to the S system, to the T, X/1/2/113/Vario, to various ahem… rebodies. It is refreshing to be surprised, for a change – and refreshing to have something that comes somewhat unexpectedly but scratches an itch that you didn’t really know existed.
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