Leica M11 Review - A deeper look into Colors and Sensor - By photographer Thorsten Overgaard
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Richard Avedon’s Sinar 8x10 portrait camera (1:58)
Hasselblad 500 C/M (2:27)
Hasselblad on NASA mission to the moon with Apollo (2:33)
Leica Minilux film camera (4:34)
Leica Summarit 40mm f//2.4 ASPH (6:15)
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Leica Modul-R Digital Camera back DMR on Leica R9 (8:24)
Kodak sensor for Leica (8:28)
Imacon firmware and color technology for Leica (8:30)
Imacon Flextight film scanners (8:41)
Leica camera with interchangeable film and digital back (9:00)
Hasselblad H6D (10:04)
Leica Modul-R Digital Camera 14447 battery (10:30)
How many photos can a DMR 14447 battery take? (12:04)
Second-hand price for Leica Modul-R Digital Camera (12:30)
Blinking battery on Leica Modul-R Digital Camera (13:11)
Rebooting battery on Leica Modul-R Digital Camera (13:36)
The look of the 10MP CCD sensor of the Leica Modul-R Digital Camera (15:06)
The look of slide film vs digital sensor (15:35)
Refurbishing Leica Modul-R Digital Camera 14447 yourself (17:18)
External Quantum Battery pack for Leica Modul-R Digital Camera 14447 (17:30)
Leica hot-shoe cover black chrome (18:43)
Upgrading the Summilux brass black chrome clip-on ventilated shade to E43 filter tread (19:57)
Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 Black Chrome Limited (20:03)
Hermes orange leather strap Leica M7 (22:36)
Hasselblad H6D (24:49)
Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 with Leica M and Leica L adapter (25:30)
Meister Camera and Leica Store in Hamburg (25:38)
Leica 50mm Noctilux f/0.95 (29:47)
7artisans 50mm f/1.1 (30:29)
Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 (32:27)
Nikkor 58mm f/1.2 (32:27)
Thorsten Overgaard Ventilated Shade E43 for the Summilux Limited Edition (34:15)
The Colors of the Leica M11 (35:04)
Leica 50mm APO-Summicron ASPH f/2.0 LHSA “Worlds Best 50mm Lens” (35:26)
Understanding colors (37:45)
You can see 3,000,000 colors but only have names for a few (37:46)
600,000 definitions of the English Language (38:25)
The Artist’s Color Wheel (40:13)
Color sizes and surfaces (42:13)
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours book (43:30) amzn.to/3osUxUf
Interaction of Colors amzn.to/3zbsld9 (44:55)
The Secret Lives of Color amzn.to/3baD4Ni (45:47)
MacBeth Color Checker from X-Rite (46:30)
Sekonic Color Meter Spectrometer (48:10)
MacBeth comparison Leica M11, Leica M10, Leica M9, Leica M10-R (48:20)
CRI Color Rendering Index values on light bulbs and lamps (49:46)
Leica M11 has very strong blue and orange (50:56)
Leica M11 “The Colors of East Berlin” (51:11)
Tools for controlling colors of the Leica M11 (52:37)
Lee gel filter for film lights and studio lamps (53:24)
X-Rite Color Checker Passport Software amzn.to/3PNmPVc (54:06)
WhiBal white balance grey card amzn.to/3Q25Tdx (55:19)
How to use a WhiBal greycard (56:16)
What is Kelvin temperature and White Balance (57:49)
Light have different colors (58:10)
Why the eyes doesn’t see the color temperatures of light (58:18)
Warm sunlight and cold blue shades (59:04)
Sample for Kelvin temperature and color scale (59:32)
Daylight is 5400 Kelvin (59:37)
Shadows are 7300 Kelvin (59:40)
Tungsten light is 3200 Kelvin (1:00:15)
Example of Kelvin temperatures and colors of light (1:00:47)
Setting the Leica M11 to 5400 Kelvin (1:01:00)
Leica M11 “East Berlin Colors” cast (1:01:40)
Leica Digilux 1 colors (1:02:56)
Leica DMR digital back colors (1:03:30)
Leica M9 vs Leica M11 colors (1:03:41)
Motorola “The Brick” mobile phone vs iPhone smartphone (1:04:24)
Comparing Leica M11 colors to everything else (1:05:32)
Dynamic range for Leica M11 (1:05:55)
Film dynamic range of 6 stops in film photo by Sean Lennon (1:06:13)
Taking photos in sunshine high contrast light (1:07:44)
The dynamic range of the human eye vs camera sensor (1:08:30)
RAW files in editing (1:10:13)
Backlit sensor in Leica M11 and shadow details (1:11:36)
Importance of 60 megapixel sensor in Leica M11 (1:13:30)
Conclusion: Leica M11 color fidelity (1:16:50)
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man, m11 review was no where near what this video was about but holy moly this video is absolutely fantastic. the depth of knowledge you just shared is immense thank you so much for sharing with us all
Excelent video! Even a directors cut video of 84 minutes is entertaining and exciting.
Thank you so much Thorsten for your time and sharing your experience here with us.🙏🏻
I love your videos so much. You converted me to Leica a few years ago so I bought an M10. I had Sony and Fuji before and the color balance out of the camera was so much better on my M10. I say was because then I discovered film (I was a kid when the world converted to digital) and the colors again were so much better out of the camera than any digital camera, including my M10. For a while I kept my M10 and ran lots of experiments alongside my M3 and sure I could almost get the tones to look right but then I would also have to adjust contrast and dynamic range so it wouldn’t look so flat, or so artificial.. for every photo that I cared about. Eventually I realized that if what I wanted was the color and texture of film photography, I should just shoot film. I sold my M10 and M3 and bought and M6 and I now I spend my creative time behind a subject rather than behind a computer screen. Ironically, I’m a software engineer on weekdays so maybe that’s why I don’t want to spend more time in front of a computer. Anyway, thanks so much for all the content you put together and all the secrets you share with us. You are a gem in this sea of suffocating affiliate marketing and clinical camera reviews.
I agree with and fully understand your remarks… I’ve been there! Wasted £1000s going back and forth from film (which I grew up with, especially. Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Velvia ) and different digital cameras/makes.
Had settled on film but the cost and convenience got me to scratch the CCD itch Thorsten started years ago with his reviews on the DMR and traded everything for a M8 and TL2 (for travel). Zero regrets. I love the M8, handling, looks and image quality.
@@kronkite1530 Kronkite - How long have you had your M8 for? Do you know the accusations? I have owned one for 4 years now and just have over 5k photos captured. The reason I'm asking is I tend not to use it anymore in case it brakes. Are your away of the life span. The photos made with the camera are truly amazing
@@richardramsay1795 To be fair, I have only had it for a couple of months and it was a low shutter count mint copy. So far no issues but though I am worried about it failing (as, where will I find another?) I am going to keep using it. I do treat all my cameras with kid gloves so hopefully no issues. If the worst comes maybe a M9 (with replaced sensor or send a lower cost one to the specialist in the US who fixes then) though many joint owners seem to prefer the M8. Maybe another R9 but with the DMR next?!
Thankk you for the kind words and the story.
Such a warming experience sharing your knoekegldge and wisdom. A glimpse here a subtle touch there a pause a question mark all filled like a first night unveiling at the theatre for a world premier.
God Bless and thank you Thorsten.
As always, your knowledge of photography is amazing. Every video is a master class.
Thank you 🙂
I paused at the chart comparing the four Leica digital bodies at 1:24:20, and it is facinating! I own an M10-R, and may favorite thing about it is that when RAW files are processed using the latest Adobe Lightroom Classic at all the default settings Adobe choses for this body, the colors look exactly like Kodak Portra, having that beautiful, slightly less saturated and slightly more pastel look that Portra 400 does, especially if you lean towards a correct to slight over exposure (exposing for the shadows). This shows up exactly in your chart! Amusingly, I owned a really old Phase One digital back for a Hasselblad 503CW, and the CCD sensor in it also had exactly the over saturated colors, extreamly deep dark blue, and greenish cast to the Sky Blue, that your M9 exibits in this chart. (Leica's own Lightroom color profile for the M10-R actually looks more saturated, much like the M11 in the chart, than the "Adobe Color" profile that Lightroom selects as its default for the 10-R). Very interesting video!
Valuable input. Portra 400 is beautiful and the colors would be worth emulating in digital editing.
Have you ever tried Capture One? I wonder if you still get that film look you are talking about. Thank you
Thank you, Thorsten Overgaard, for presets!
Welcome!
Excellent explanation, Thorsten. Thanks!
I’ve done similar comparisons with colors, between brands and Leica camera sensors, and blind test picking of images. And I’ve concluded for me the original sensor in the Leica SL (601) produces the most pleasing images of any digital camera regardless of brand, and shooting M lenses on that camera produces some of the best most pleasing digital images you’ll ever achieve to date. Great video, you’re really drilling down to how the light is gathered, filtered, and how the processor sees it, interpreters the colors and displays them, and no one does it better then Leica.
This is interesting. Do you find that the JPEGs from the Leica SL are excellent or do use post processing? Thanks
Tremendous video. Encyclopaedic and Inspiring. Look forward to your thoughts on Hasselblad too.
Best lesson ever. Brilliant 📸
Excellent video description! Thank you.
Fantastic explanation. I'm going to do what you suggested - when I shoot my events in 'strange' light, I'm going to take a photo of the 18 percent card in the ambient light, and then put the colour picker on it in Capture 1, then set that colour for all the images (when I'm at home post-processing). Just one question Thorsten - if you are using a bit of fill flash during the shoot, do we still take the ambient reading on grey cared without flash, or do we have to shoot the 18% card with a burst of fill-flash to get the reading accurate?
Great master class on light and color.
Thanks for the interesting video. I took a few test photos with the M11 and I immediately noticed the described red/magenta shift. The M8 that I still own and a Lumix camera before it did that too. I never liked that and it kept me from buying the camera. In the video you talk about the resulting color tone -8 having to be set. Are you doing this with a post processing setup? That would be a workaround for the problem. The colors got better in the test shots when I changed the color setting in Lightroom to automatic and not from the picture,
Learned heaps about colour; thank you!
Glad to hear that 🙂
Thorsten, I had a battery problem with an older Profoto flash (dead batteries). MTO Battery ( a company in Red Lion, PA) was recommended to me by a friend at Arca-Swiss. I sent my battery to be repaired / rebuilt. The battery was returned to me within a few weeks. This might be an option. You can easily find them on the web. This was an outstanding video... thanks for all the discussion on color and sensor science. None of this is easy. Again... Really nice video.
Like it !
The Leica new M11 is very unique and outstanding tools.
Well that was a slow burn before we got to the topic but I did like the walk back in time with the retro gear. There is nothing better than holding retro gear that has a build quality you can only dream of buying now, they are timeless pieces to be valued. Each camera, lens, film and sensor have a different feel and your point is so true that in film days it was just accepted there would be nuances to your images depending on what you used in differing settings and that was that. The digital age has made us so much more demanding. I do like the white card suggestion and will buy one to take with me.
Very good video, I learned a ton, thank you Thorsten for educating us! And yeah, I love that Summilux 50 black chrome limited edition lens that has that classic 1950s look! I own that lens too and hate that clip-on hood that came with it, because you never know when it drops. I need to send it to Wetzlar to get a replacement hood, thanks for the tip! The lens itself is fabulous, I especially love it on my M10 monochrom.
Yes, send it in and get it updated. Have a look at mine as spare/daily use model with built-in E46 front filer tread: www.overgaard.dk/Thorsten-von-Overgaard-Gallery-Store-Hardware-for-Photography-E43-43mm-Ventilated-Lens-Shade-for-E43mm-old-version-Leica-50mm-Summilux.html
@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Thanks! Just ordered the red one. Red hot!
May I ask please ? Do you consider to use leica UVA ii filter to protect your M lenses ? Do you think its necessary ? Thanks
Have you tried a USB to DC cable and a power bank for the R9? Finding the right wattage may be difficult, though.
Thanks for the wonderful review. As a Noctilux lover , what is the performance with Noct f1 on M11 ? Is there difference between M9 and M11 on same Noct? Any tips in post-process for noct on M11? Hope there will be series about old Noct on M11 ! Thanks
Thanks for putting this video together - I bought an M11 recently and was very excited to see what you had to say about its colors. When editing the photos, I tend to feel that the M11 profile in Lightroom is excessively saturated, so after experimenting a bit, I usually switch back to Adobe Standard, and then perhaps push up Vibrance or even Saturation a little bit. However, what puzzles me more is that, when I get images loaded into Lightroom, it quite consistently loads the Magenta tint way too heavily - often to anywhere from +13 to +19, and I always have to take the Magenta down manually, quite significantly. Is that an issue you have experienced? - Or would it indicate there is something I am doing wrong?
Magenta too heavily. Do you mean the Tint is like +15 but should be -8. That is what I mostly find, that the tint has to be adjusted minus 10-15 points to be right. A bit disturbing. Same in Capture One, so it's the file, not the software of profile.
(Color temperature = Kelvin is adjustment of blue, Tint is adjustment Green/Magenta)
@@MagicOfLight_ThorstenOvergaard Yes. Although, what I see is less drastic than the numbers you indicate - perhaps because I have converted to Adobe Standard first? I find that Magenta tint is usually set to around +19 when I start editing - I tend to get good and natural-looking results by taking it down to anywhere between +9 and +13. Those numbers are still odd; but I find the image to look correct at those level - becomes way too green if I go to zero or below. Wonder if this is material for a future firmware update, if - as you indicate - it is the file itself...? I suppose that in that case it is a pretty universal issue everyone has...
@@srenpap-tolstrup7678 My AWB and Kelvin 5400 start out +14 generally. If you use a WhiBal greycard in the photo, it will adjust to somewhere between +4 and -8 (you can also use the picker anywhere in the photo where the RGB shows almost the same levels as that would neutral).
There was someone who made his own new profiles, and I don't agree completely with them. But could help analyze the data: www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1737771/35#15963618
But in using Lightroom Classic, I would go with Adobe Standard as profile.
One cannot make a Style with "reduce Ting with 10" or something, but that would solve it for the most part. Don't know if Leica could actually update firmware to adjust colors. I doubt they would mess with it now as it also ties in with what Capture One and Adobe now settled for.
I wish they would find the guys from Imacon who used to work with scanner software and the DMR digital back for the R9. Those guys can do colors! Not sure they have people at Leica who can (judging from the JPG b&W of the M11 I am nervous they have very little in-house expertise on color management from sensors)
Excellent video - entertaining and educational!
I love the passion. Always super enlightening (pun intended). 💕
Thank you 🙂
Great video, Thorsten! Your joy at hitting paydirt with the battery and strap is infectious. So, have you stopped using Adobe Standard for M11 files (with a nudge down on the orange and blue saturation)? Are you now using X-rite profiles instead? I shot the X-rite card with a 50 Lux in daylight and ran the profile and it barely changed the out-of-camera colors. The problem with using one's eye in these matters is that you develop visual biases quickly, and adapt to the colors the same way your eye adjusts to different white balances. I'm wondering if I'm killing the lifeof the images by using Adobe Standard. Thoughts? PS: the M11 colors may not be perfect but they're WAY better than the M240 was. Keep up the great work and answer my questions if you can please?
that digital back r8/9 battery thing you described sounds like there is electrolityc capacitor in the circuit that is re-forming after being discharged....
Enjoyable and inspiring. I looked back and reread your ebook, "A Little Book on Photography". I think finding ways to stay interested and motivated to continue creating something, whether its photography, music, cooking, writing, it doesn't really matter what genre it is as long as it brings a spark to your life.
Yes, stay inspired and make your own creations is the key. Every child should learn to write, draw, sketch, play or something that can be their creation in life.
Alfredo Guadarrama, from Mexico. Great video and very nice ese you mention the Nikon 50mm f1.2 and the Monista 58mm f1.2, because I have just them with adaptar for my Sony A7R M3. I can not afford one Leica M but agree on your comment about this lentes which reader in my Sony just as you comment!!! Rgds from Mexico.
Great video Thorsten and everything well explained like we used to get from you.
However I have something to add, and maybe discus, about white balance.
When I want a true representation of somebody or something, a grey card is the way to go, no doubt.
However, and with a sample I can illustrated this the best.
Suppose you are dining in a restaurant or maybe sitting in the sun and the ambient light (lamp or sun) throws a nice yellowish shine on the thing/person you want to photograph.
Adjusting the photo with a grey card will ruin that cast/shine cause the cast will be on the card too and after adjustment it all be neutralised and the cast/shine is gone.
That's why I, in daily shooting, don't use it any more.
Setting Kelvin to 3200 indoor or 5400 outdoor can be the standard way to have it based on something you can recognize and know what to do about. The WhiBal cleans it up yes, and then you can dirty it up with adjusting the Kelvin scale to warmer. I find I do that quite a lot. Add warmth.
Hi Thorsten - I think you're reviewing M11 colors came out of the box. I always use tone curves, saturation, vibrance and clarity to get what I want in Lightroom. After a while they all the same. Love the menu on the M240 with color film option. Menu on M10 is not good.
Yes, they start out of the box, and then what to do with them. Which profile in Lightroom or Capture One, and then how to tweak it towards the look you want. The M11 seem to be generally minus 8 in tint to get it to look right.
Always a pleasure to watch! Addicted to Leica since 1986. now working with SL and Cl… (C- Lux as always with me cam). But Never had the Leica Colors… DNG and DXO work great together. And than - Photoshop… so my colors are individual… Whats the secret to geht those special colors?
Agree. Meister Kamera is really good. I live in Sweden but i could buy Photo gear from them without any problem. Great service too!
wasn't really expecting this video when I started watching but I'm glad I did. it was really good and explanatory, color theory is really fascinating! the almost one and a half hours went past very quickly!
Happy you stayed and watched 🙂
Seriously me too, I tried the video and got glued on for the full time. I am happy I did. Thanks
Thanks for a very informative video. Not only information, but also resources. Also, a little philosophy thrown in.
Thank you 🙂
Great colloquium on color. Enjoyable, though I remain confused, just less so. I take it that white balance calibration is sufficient to capture the modulation of color throughout a typical day; and while the deltas or changes may be captured, there is no “absolute” accuracy that may be achieved as the gamut of color is wider than our limited perception and subjective judgment concerning color. But one question: Do Leica really attempt to achieve accuracy, or are they guided by a particular “aesthetic” view on color. As megapixel density rises has this aesthetic become less decisive and certain?
Thanks a lot. Your whole video was awesome. I believe Henri Cartier-Bresson said that he saw photography - photos - as "instant paintings." If you look at a photograph as a painting, a work of art - not a document or recording of facts, the "realism" of the colors in a photograph don't mean so much - not to me. Photographs are like people, you either like them or you don't.
I totally agree that photography as realism is not the goal. It has to be your vision and your take on it.
Thorsten - how about doing review on Hasselblad X1D series . It's color science impresses me quite a bit. Thanks
Hi many thanks for this Leica history. However you mention you can mount the M lenses to R bodies but that, I think, is not true/possible. Can you please clarify what you meant? Thanks
You can with an adapter, but you will lose infinity focus.
I stumbled over my R-to-M adapter in the closet the other day. Forgot it's for mounting R lenses on M.
Thanks, in the video you talk about using your M lenses on the R bodies……so you need M-to R! Have you tried that, Dan says its possible. I never found such adapters existing myself, so any tips would be highly appreciated.
@@zenonkontolemis1232 Search for the Leica 14167 adapter. Be sure to check discussion threads before buying. The M flange distance is much shorter than the R, therefore with most M lenses you will only be able to focus on very close subjects. The adapter was meant for special Visoflex lenses, and I have no experience with it.
Thanks Dan, that’s what I recall that it’s almost impossible to use properly m lenses on R contrary to what was said in the video.
Hi Thorsten! Miss talking to you man. There are some other things I have been researching about color. I LOVE you come from a graphic design background (I do too). But also we have to think of the different color theory based on different cultures. For instance, I have a color theory book from Japan. I didn't realize it right away but they have MUCH more color variants than in the US and Europe. Got me thinking about color as it works in say Africa or Latin American and Indigenous people. Then, when the M10P came out and the color variant was different (with the same sensor) than the M10, it hit me that you can actually develop a color based on who the market is: specifically, the skin tones. So, I have an experiment I will tell you privately that I will be doing to work with a real color variant. It may look like crap, who knows... but I have to try this chromatic variant not based on what a camera manufacture has given us but what we can do as an artist.
Also, ran into an interesting kelvin issue in LA with another photographer who's assistant didn't set the camera for the color cast with a portrait that was very specific - way too yellow! Sou out of the box the S (a studio camera I suppose) is likely default set to Tungsten. Took a lot of work to get the photos right, but you either see it or you do not. Another chat for another time.
Doing some specialized Leica M11 styles for Capture One and presets for Lightroom to adjust the M11 colors. Quite interesting to see what it does.
The problem with old camera tech down the road is the procurement of batteries. Good lesson to all
When the batteries are this special, yes. The more popular models, third parties make them and sell them long time after. Not always as stable batteries, but at least available. For models like this, or the Hasselblad for example, buy enough batteries while supplies last 🙂
I'm a happy user of the M10. I considered M11, but don't see any benefits for my use case. I use the M10 with the APO 50. For the color accuracy I created Adobe color profiles with X Rite Colorchecker Passport - it does make a difference. But you know what looks best - JPG straight out of camera. So I shoot in DNG + JPG mode and in most cases I choose JPG, because it looks better.
I don't disagree that JPG straight out of camera can work very well. It's easy, it's straight-forward, and it forceds you to do it as right as possible.
Old camera material is better than current camera technology
Now that we have 60mpx resolution leica should provide via firmware update a panoramic crop !!! I’m struggling to find a digital successor to my xpan and it could be it !!!
Although not commercially advantageous, I thought Leica for SL cameras ,should have adopted a model similar to Rollei 3003 with a separate back devoted to the sensor and electronics . The Leica bodies are so well made that can last for many years ( as they did for the film cameras ) but in the digital age that is not practical as new sensors become available. As much as people like the Leica brand , it is always difficult to justify spending 5-6 thousand dollars every few years. For the sensors and the electronics it is always an input from companies in the far east and Leica can take a share on the profits from the sale of a new back with a new sensor .
There’s only one digital Leica with the best colors, especially with the 35 summicron asph, and that is the M9 , period!
Leica M9 ... we will never forget 🙂
You took the long road didn’t you . Really get the feeling you don’t like the M11 very much .
I picked one up and the biggest issue I personally have is how often it freezes up . As to the color issues that’s a simple fix just calibrate like you said.
I contest this: you cannot convert a sony picture into a picture with full Leica look!
My take is he thinks is did not significantly add to his toolbox.
@@jeanthill8555 this is my first digital Leica so i really have no frame of reference . Ive been shooting Fuji. MF since they released that.
48:50 M9 still the best
Yes, your lack of enthusiasm for the M11 has been obvious from the start.
Well, that was wasted time. I was looking for M11 Colors and Sensor Review and I got Hermes strap story instead.
And same about the Leica Sumieron 50mm f2.0 APO but in my case with Voigtlander 50mm f2.0 APO, as you say the HiFi camera lens.
The masses seem to blindly hero worship people simply due to an exotic name or perceived aura of sophistication. I am sorry but I do not understand why so many ass kissing comments here… I find it difficult to follow the video, the narrative is all over the place and extremely basic at best. Just my opinion.
Pp
Yet the m3 m6 m7 etc didn’t age :)
Thorsten, this is pure Leica porn and is the generation of such lust a healthy thing? The collectors who are driven by such stuff will have their fix, but for most of us who shoot analog Leica, will focus on our photography and not the cameras and lenses we have in our cabinets. Why keep a racehorse if you never race it?
These are good points, but it does my heart good that this guy is sharing his collection and experience with us. How rare. I love collectors. Sure this kind of camera lust can ruin the average man, but does that mean extraordinary men should not exist, or should hide? What a stupid waste that would be. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Thorsten for sharing your incredible passion. Certainly anyone can gain inspiration from your philosophy on photography, and life.