Wanted to follow up on shooting people close to you and having a camera with you. The Leica M is a fantastic camera to carry around with you. Be it M9 or M3. I always had mine with me and have some pretty amazing shots to prove it. A point and shoot digicam is better than nothing but it does a completely different job than the Lieca – really. This shot is not fantastic and I wished the focus was on the close eye instead of the far eye,...
Well, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and shoot more film prior to taking the M9 plunge. I really haven’t shot film in the last two years since my last move. Well I did shoot some medium format but that was color and was not my M series Leica. In preparation to start shooting seriously with the M series I ordered up a fresh batch of developer and fixer from Photographers Forumulary and it arrived today. To warm up the old darkroom skills I figured...
Just ran across this fantastic example of the kind of work that Leica rangefinder cameras excel at. Not really my taste in the specific treatment of the negatives (this was done on film) but the images are great and as I said a fantastic example. If this is the kind of thing (range and proximity) of things you like to shoot. The M9 or M6 or M3 may be the camera for you. If you are too lazy to process and scan film then definitely the M9. This image...
I have had so many conversations with people interested in the Leica M9 I have lost count. Surprising to me is that over half of those people have never shot, owned, or touched any rangefinder camera before. I wanted to offer my advise for those that may be thinking about investing in the Leica M9. It will be short and to the point. There are probably a couple of things in the comments for another post that you may want to take a look at as well. My very...
Have had a lot of interest and some interesting conversations fueled by my enthusiastic post greeting the recently released Leica M9. It appears that I am not the only one interested in the new M9. That’s not surprising – what is surprising is that there seems to be way more people interested in the M9 that have never shot with a film version – like the M6, than I ever predicted. A lot of the conversations that I have had with folks that would be delving into rangefinders for...
