The exterior shell of the Leica is stark.

The M10-R is small enough to fit in a purse or to carry around your neck and kind of forget it’s there. It’s smaller than my Fujifilm X-Pro 2, and that’s a very small professional camera. The 40-megapixel sensor is massive for a camera this size. You'd be rushing to answer the door, too! It's every bit as well made as any other Leica rangefinder, it comes with an all-new 40-megapixel full-frame sensor, and it starts at $8,300. You have to understand, this camera is exciting. Once that tedious business was done, I finally got to hold the M10-R. They kindly parted me from the box and insisted I put some ice on my sprained ankle and swollen knees.

“You look busted, Jess,” one of them said. “Oh, I fell,” I told them, unboxing the Leica M10-R, while bruises blossomed across my knees and elbows. By then, my roommates had run into the living room after hearing my crash and yelp. I limped back inside, the prize clutched close to my breast, and collapsed on my couch. I got back up, ignoring the pain so I could answer the door before UPS decided I wasn’t home. Or, more specifically, I slipped on a cat toy, fell onto a dining chair, and pulled that chair down on top of me as I slid forward into the fridge. I ran headfirst into my refrigerator when Leica’s new camera, the M10-R, arrived at my doorstep.

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