Leica M and Canon are on the same level. What is the camera like?

From the technical parameters, it is close to Canon 5D3.

It is difficult to compare different architecture platforms, just as you insist on asking whether Apple computer is faster or Microsoft computer, and the algorithm of each system is different.

Choosing Leica is still a good choice, mainly depending on the subject matter you shoot. If you need a quick snapshot, documentary, long focal length or macro shooting, it is undoubtedly a Canon SLR. As for Leica, this is another shooting concept. When shooting at a distance of 0.7-5 meters, Leica is the first in the world, not as good as Leica, whether you take Canon, Nikon or Sony. This distance is what people often say is the most concentrated focus of humanistic photography, and it is also the foundation for Leica to settle down. Leica believes that within this distance, there is interaction between the photographer and the subject, and the photographer participates in the events in the photo. Beyond this distance, it becomes a spectator. When an enterprise focuses on a certain field for nearly 100 years, its connotation does not exceed that of other large-scale comprehensive enterprises. When the lens of the same grade is taken out to look at the MTF curve, the gap between Leica's performance and its opponent is huge within this distance.

The same is true for Leica cameras. After more than one hundred years of development, Leica has formed its own color system, which is called Leica flavor. This taste is not adjusted by PS in the later period, but its own color style that Leica has been continuing. You don't need everyone's approval. As long as you can agree, you will like it. Compared with Canon and Nikon, they basically don't have their own imaging style, because these brands sell products, unlike Leica, which sells a concept.

As for the specific technical parameters, it is a great disadvantage that the digital M is not sensitive, but it is closely related to Leica's personality, because people who rarely use Leica will use flash, which is a habit formed by Leica in the past 100 years of film photography. Flash will spoil the beauty of imaging. Shoot at night and get on a tripod. Give up if you can't shoot the tripod. You know how to choose. Leica does not pursue the big and complete, but only focuses on a certain field. Similarly, in ISO200, Leica's imaging surpassed Canon 5D3. Even when Leica Digital M is in ISO200, it still has great advantages over 5D3 in ISO50. This is the power of concentration.

Leica's digital M-series cameras also have RAW files, but that is a format called DNG developed by Leica using ADOBE, which can be solved by Leica's original software or LR, and RAW is a format customized by the Japanese Manufacturers' Union. European manufacturers like to use DNG, just like the video file of Apple computer is MOV, and the video file of ordinary PC is AVI, which are lossless videos with different formats. Many white people only know RAW, but they feel unprofessional when they see no RAW.