Leica is breaking the mold with its new top-of-the-line digital camera because it has no LCD screen for reviewing pictures after they’ve been taken.
The German company is giving the Leica M-D’s future owners a little bit of the feeling from the past in hopes to “bring back the joy and anticipation of waiting to see how pictures turned out.” Leica has even gone without its famous red logo to keep the continuity of the all-black design of the M-D.
Without a screen, the M-D is actually optimized with physical controls on the camera to control aspects like aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. And while most of these controls have integrated automatic settings, it is pretty clear Leica has built the M-D for potential owners who are pretty experienced in manual photography.
The M-D boasts a 24-megapixel CMOS sensor and Leica’s Maestro image processor, and it actually bypasses JPEGs in favor of saving all of the stills shot by the camera in the higher-grade RAW DNG format.
The Leica M-D costs $5,995 and is available for order.