Leica introduced a digital black and white camera Monochrom M

The German company Leica has never belonged to the camera manufacturers to mass, occupying a niche manufacturer of professional camera equipment and the premium and luxury. But the model M Monochrom take a narrow niche, even among the products of the brand, as is a digital camera, which is not able to make a color image. How would this not sound strange at the beginning of the XXI century, but the Leica engineers have developed a model that can please the owner and the fans of his art exclusively in black and white shots. This was done in order to create the first full frame 35mm format digital camera that is designed exclusively for black and white photography without compromise, which would have revived the traditions established by a series of film cameras Leica M. With a resolution of 18 megapixels, the camera's sensor Leica M Monochrom provides, in comparison with the similar "color" matrices, this 100% sharpness. Since the camera's sensor does not "see" color, then each pixel, "writes" the true meaning of the luminance signal and as a consequence, the matrix provides a "true" black and white. The combination of the characteristics of lenses Leica M series and the "black" matrix gives the output images of high sharpness and clarity. Camera Leica M Monochrom provides a histogram of RAW-data for the complete control of image tone dialing. In contrast to the conventional histogram, the histogram displays the RAW-data real data recorded sensor camera. That in combination with clipping control over the display allows for precise correction of exposure and to choose its optimal value. cost camera is close to $ 8,000, and the software bundle includes Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and Silver Efex ProTM, as well as an exclusive offer for printing photos on fiber premium photo paper using the technology of "wet" chemical processes based on silver halides. Argued that impressions are practically not differ from the impressions received by analog printing from film negatives.