The M11 Monochrome is the culmination of refinement over decades, not so much of innovation in fundamentally changing the Leica M, but in elevating engineering refinement to an art-form. It is a tool that feels sublime and practical in its function and simplicity. A tool that feeds one’s desire to take, or better, make a better photograph. It is a laconically executed piece of equipment where form and function feel perfect.
Experiencing the world through the M11 M’s rangefinder, feeling the dials that manually make what you want of a colourless monochrome world, without the encumbrances of a complex computational soulless interference in the process, is the the most I have felt this invaluable freedom and calm, in the process of making pictures. Less feels like so much more with the M11 Monochrome that it is inherently an extension of one’s “mind’s eye” or being.
A photographer’s tool that feels sublime and looks simply exceptional. The quality of a tool does not lay in the abundance of its functions but it is the quality of the tool that in itself, brings forth abundance inevitably.
