[Leica] Leica M Monochrom

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

>Thinking about the MM, I find myself wondering why one would pay a $1000
>premium for an already extremely expensive digital camera stripped of
>what, for me, is one of the greatest attractions of digital - the ability
>to think black and white, produce wonderful black and white images, but
>always have a color "negative." Shooting with a color sensor allows me to
>go back to my images years later and discover something that I thought
>should be a black and white image is, in fact, extraordinary in color.
>Yes, taking off the bayer filter allows for an otherworldly level of
>sharpness. But photography, for me at least, is not about etching with a
>razor blade, it's about catching moments that show us things about the
>human condition we see every day yet fail to see because they are so much
>a part of our lives. I don't care about being able to count the number of
>fibers in the thread holding a button onto someone's collar, I instead to
>see the joy, or pain, in their eyes.

End of quite rant.