[Leica] DXO Mark Leica M10 Score

[Mark Rabiner]

It’s my impression that cameras such as the Nikon D800 and the Sony A7R III are high rez cameras and in that end special purpose cameras for people who are likely to print their output. Like me. Commercial shooters also get into a game of certain art directors want the latest jacked up megapixels for all their jobs as some kind of a personal contest with the other art directors and it started with medium format digital but has leached into 35mm full frame shooting as that gear is being used for jobs about as serious now with these newer high rez and flagship cameras both getting to be so darned good!
It struck me that such high rez cameras are in a high rez class by themselves but I thought lacked some advantages of the flagship cameras such as the D5 or EOS-1DX whose Megapixels are half but are faster cameras which I also though gave better low light results and other specs I could barely comprehend so they need nicer names like “Toasty” and “Mint”. The Flagships do cost twice the high rez cameras and that might influence a few people into thinking they are better cameras. Three grad often does that.  Also the word “flagship”. 
I don’t feel the Dxomark people are going to have opinions about Sony or whoever which is going to impact their numbers; numbers being numbers and these are numbers people though I do have not the greatest vibe on the company for other reasons:
Their dumbed down terminology gives me the giggles: 
Portrait, Landscape and Sports.  
Here Portrait or Landscape does not inanely replace vertical or horizontal.  Dxo has “Portrait” standing in for Color Depth. And it’s well known once you start using vaguely technical terms like Color Depth your clicks go down. So we go to Mrs. Bambara’s Kindergarten class for advice on nice words which don’t make people sweat.
Ditto with using the term “Landscape” to stand in for “Dynamic Range”.  One advantage to the term “Dynamic Range” is when someone says or writes “Dynamic Range” then you generally get a clue that what they are referring to is “Dynamic Range”. The rolling hills of West Virginia is another topic.
The Dxo people later describe “Dynamic Range” as one of the main things needed for portrait shooting. They need a new PR guy. (see url below). Or switch Kindergarten teachers.
The third term and not the least grating is “Sports”. Which stands in for these guys as “Low-Light ISO” which is arbitrary enough for me.
Low-Light ISO is a main deal for me as my metadata tells me my normal cruising speed is iso 64,000 ice cream bars above sea level.  And the last time I shot sports Lyndon B. Johnson was the president I remember every sport I shot in high school being pretty well lit up or the ball would turn up missing which makes it hard to finish the game.

https://www.dxomark.com/Reviews/DxOMark-Camera-Sensor2/Portrait-Landscape-and-Sport

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Mark William Rabiner

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