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Just nice to use A7r, VisoflexII & Hektor 135

I have the same approach. If the camera does not have the ability to configure BBF, then I will not even consider buying such a camera (example Q3)

That’s the only way I shoot every camera… so I’d always like that option. Robb

Love this thread - I leave for Venice tomorrow for six days. 21mm 1.4 is my favorite but may just bring the 28mm 2.0 because it’s so much smaller and lighter to hold all day long. M10R.

One of the photographers I was referring to did have a back up. It was a Hasselblad X2D, which he then switched to. Meanwhile, the art director, studio assistants and model sat there twiddling their thumbs while the Hassy was geared up. Kind of embarrassing. When I was working, I always took two identical bodies on a shoot. In over 15 years of digital shooting I never had a single failure with either my Nikons or Canons, so no, all cameras do not burp, fart and fail. Your experience was quite different than mine and I used my systems heavily. The thing about the M11 is that the failure rate seems to be so prevalent, even having a second body wouldn't make most pros comfortable.

Detail from my Opus Number 90 - Utah Calcite Stone Sculpture --- Sony a7rII Summicron 50mm, f5.6, iso 100, 1/250, cropped Flash

You can get an LTM to R adapter, and the lenses will mount on the R but the flange to film distance won't allow them to focus to infinity. The adapter is essentially only an extension tube for macro work.

35mm Summilux v2 pre asph on M9

Noctilux 1.2 on M240

M10 - Summilux 50asph

M10 - Summilux 50asph

Hi all, I have a couple of mint lenses that I got with a couple of iii few weeks ago: Summaron f=3.5cm 1:3.5 Summitar f=5cm 1:2 Leitz Elmar f=5cm 1:3.5 Leitz Elmar f=5cm 1:2.8 I was wondering if I could find a way to use them in a leicaflex SL body? Also which of this four is your favorite and why? I am curious to know. Thank you for your time.

M10 - Summilux 50asph

Korean regular intercity M10 - Summilux 50asph

Korean hi-speed M10 - Summilux 50asph

M10 - Summilux 50asph

Audience participation at the Slipper Room, NYC. Noctilux f1 v4 on an M11. Click through for hi-res. I love how this old lens rendered the sequence.

When you shoot on the street, you very often need prefocus on a certain point, since the main composition (background, middle ground) is already built, but you wait for an event at a certain point in space for quite a long time (it can be half an hour). You'll just get tired of holding the shutter button half-pressed for so long

Gwangju station hall M10 - Summilux 50asph

M10 - Summilux 50asph

You know fotografr: the more I look at these photos - on the third frame with JC walking down the ramp - two agents behind him - the photographer kinda looks like a young Rich Lipski who at that time I think was with UPI. At that moment he might be in the pool or the pool photographer for this event?

I stopped using it when I switched from the Sony A7III to the Canon R6. Autofocus and metering on the R6 was/is at the point where I didn't feel I needed it anymore. Not so much the case with my SL2 but now I'm used to not using BBF so I didn't switch back (I tried but it felt weird after years of not using it).

Fireflies flying in the woods

i use pilot 7L for daily "office" bag, with macbook air 13". i have the leather pilot 3,5L and khaki 2L. i prefer the 2L more, because i often bring just M9 with 50lux or 35lux. The 3.5L is better, if you always brought 2 M body (w/lenses) or 1 body (w/lens) with additional 1 - 2 lenses.

why do most pro's carry a backup camera. Oh that's right All cameras burp, fart and fail at inconvenient times, it's not just Leica! Unless you shoot Nikon Canon or Sony that is and then no backup is needed! I have owned Nikon fuji Olympus and Leica and have had to pull batteries at tiems on every one of them! I never owned canon after they orphaned my FD stuff maybe they don't freeze 🙂