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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Gareth Bevan

Leica M EV1 review: An alternative –and controversial –take on a classic

Leica M EV1 digital camera with lens attached around a person's neck with a strap.

The Leica M series features some of the most esteemed cameras of all time, having been used to take some of photography’s most recognized images, which has won it a cult-like following. And with such dedicated and impassioned fans, the pace of change has been deliberately slow and measured, with the swap from film to digital being the most significant change to the series in half a century of incremental refinement.

But right now, the M series is facing another momentous milestone with the introduction of the Leica M EV1 – the first M camera not to feature an optical viewfinder. Instead, the M EV1 will solely be relying on an EVF.

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