Apart from this the M10-P features a touchscreen LCD, an electronic level and a quieter shutter mechanism.

[8] The Leica M10 (P) Monochrom was introduced in January 2020 with a new 41 MP full-frame (24x36 mm) CMOS sensor.

[9] The camera is called "Monochrom" as the sensor is not equipped with a Bayer-array filter which means: 1) it only records intensities of light in black and white (no color image can be obtained from it), 2) as a result of the absence of Bayer Red Green Blue filter it receives more light, is more sensitive with its highest ISO setting being 100,000, shows less noise at high ISOs, renders more (and precise) details (as there is no demosaicing, a digital process generally operated by the camera's processor from the partial information provided by a Bayer-type sensor that only "sees" Blue (or Red) with a quarter of its pixels, the rest has to be "invented" through the demosaicing process).

The first generation started with the Leica M9, equipped with the Kodak 18 MP CCD sensor, in 2012.

The next model, code name Typ 246, was derived from the Leica M240: it had a 24 MP CMOS full-frame sensor, and was released in 2015.