I never set out to be someone who would even consider selling their loved Leica M2. That camera was a promise to myself – a commitment to shoot black-and-white film properly, and to do it on a Leica.

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The big picture: Leica has even gone so far as to remove its iconic red dot logo from the front of the camera and color-filled engravings for a very minimalist look. The design element further ...

Although the technical brilliance of modern digital cameras is undeniable, there's also something about the ease with which pictures can be taken that tends to encourage a rather scattershot approach ...

What’s black and white and has lust all over it? This guy. Meet the Leica M Monochrom Camera ($7,950). Built off the M9 full-frame rangefinder, the M Monochrom will shoot as many colors as your heart ...

As this issue was being prepared for publication, the Guggenheim Museum in New York was showing an excellent special exhibit called “Picasso Black and White.” Last year, the silent black-and-white ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The idea panned out because Leica has returned with a new model of the Monochrom, dubbed the Type 246. It ...

Colour. Pah! Who needs it? Not the Leica M11 Monochrom. This full-frame system camera eschews red, green and blue in favour of pure greyscale, which helps boost contrast and clarity in equal measure.

The latest black-and-white-only camera from Leica gets the 60-megapixel sensor of the M11 and some incremental feature improvements. Plus, a new close-focusing fast-50mm lens is launching in tandem.

In the case of "why would you pay $8k for a black and white camera," exhibit 'A' would surely be the lack of a color filter array corrupting the image. Without one, the Leica Monochrom-- with a ...