Leica is looking to charm us with the beauty and mystery of black-and-white photography once again. The German camera maker is announcing the Leica M11 Monochrom, its first new offshoot of last year’s 60-megapixel M11 and its fifth digital camera to only shoot black and white. Launching alongside the blacked-out $9,195 camera is a new Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens, which focuses closer and has more aperture blades than the current model, selling for $4,495 in black or $4,795 in silver. New features aside, the M11 Monochrom uses the same aluminum build and matte finish as the black M11. And being based on the M11 also means it’s lighter than the M10 Monochrom it’s replacing, with better battery life and a built-in MFi-certified USB-C port on its non-removable bottom plate. But the 40-megapixel M10 Monochrom is still a very formidable camera in 2023. With a new high price of about $9,200, the M11 Monochrom is $900 more expensive than the launch price of the M10 Monochrom, following a year’s long trend of ever-increasing prices since the M10 debuted at $6,595.