Leica's new crazy expensive digital camera doesn't have an LCD screen

A digital camera with no LCD screen? Who the heck would buy such a camera in 2016?

That's the question, Leica surely asked itself when it decided to create the M-D (Typ 262), its newest rangefinder-style digital camera, which doesn't come with any kind of display on the back.

If you believe Leica's spiel, a camera without a screen distills "photography in its purest form." A screen, apparently distracts the photographer during the photographing process.

In other words, the M-D gives you a slower, more old school way of shooting more akin to shooting with a film camera. The photographer is forced to think about composition while looking through the viewfinder, adjust settings with the shutter speed dial on top and the ISO wheel on the back. Read more...