After months of speculation, the Leica SL (Typ 601), Leica’s full-frame mirrorless camera, has arrived and on paper, it’s a beast.

At the core is a 24-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with a newly developed Leica Maestro II-series processor and a fast UHS-II SD card slot that combine for 11 fps continuous shooting and 4K video. Real 4K video too, not that 3840 pixel UltraHD 4K but 4096 x 2160 4K. The ISO range is 50-50000, so we should see some good low light performance from the SL. It’s also weather-sealed.

The electronic viewfinder is a 4.4m dot, 0.80x magnification EyeRes unit, which is the largest we’ve seen so far. For comparison’s sake, the Sony A7R Mark II‘s EVF is 2.36m dots and a 0.78x magnification.

The body is milled from a single block of aluminum and it looks like it’s built with the highest standards of precision. We expect the Leica SL (Typ 601) to arrive in mid-November.

There are three new Leica SL-mount lenses to go along with the new camera: a 24-90mm F2.8-4, 90-280mm F2.8-4 and a 50mm F1.4, all of which are weather sealed and designed for silent, precise auto-focus.

At release, the only SL lens that will be available is the Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90/f2.8-4 ASPH, which is the system’s regular walkaround zoom lens. It features 18 elements in 15 groups (!) with 4 aspherical elements, optical image stabilization good for 3.5 stops and a minimum focus distance of 0.3m.

Those that want the big zoom and the 50mm prime are in for a bit of a wait. The APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280/f2.8-4 will be available mid-2016 and the Summilux-SL 50/f1.4 ASPH is estimated to be coming in December 2016. In the meantime, there will be a number of adapters available for SL mount so you can use all your S, R, M, T and Leica Cine mount lenses.

There’s also a number of new SL accessories coming including straps, filters, a flash and handgrip but we don’t have any solid due date except that they’ll be coming between launch and mid-2016.

More info at leica-camera.com.