You’ll probably be thinking, „What? Colours with the Monochrom? Don’t tell me this is one of those pitiful attempts to put colours back into a Monochrom image yet again, or something like that…“. No worries, with all due respect to any attempt to do art and to try something different and new, for the moment being when I want to shoot something in colour, I’d rather use a camera that shoots… well, colours. Today’s post is about something different. That the Leica M Monochrom (MM from now on) can only shoot black & white images is a well known fact, but today’s question is: what kind of B&W does the Leica MM outputs, what about its tonal response? How does its images compare with „regular“ colour digital images converted to B&W after the fact? And then, what about using real filters to modify a cameras B&W tonal response vs. using digital colour filters? I decided to investigate this a little further…