Herr Barnack Posted February 3, 2015 Share #21 Posted February 3, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Question to you:What is special about the Leica M for you? Ease of use Quality craftsmanship of the camera Quietness of operation Unobtrusiveness of the camera The M lenses Full frame 24 mp CMOS sensor Rangefinder design Manual focus Long lasting battery (in no particular order) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Hi Herr Barnack, Take a look here Craig Semetko Video: What is so unique about the Leica M?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
IanRW Posted February 3, 2015 Share #22 Posted February 3, 2015 Hi, I enjoyed the video. For many years I have used the excellent M8, but in some ways I felt a certain restriction. I have purchased the new M 240. WOW I love it! My main interest is in car photography and the versatility the M gives me is wonderful. I am able for the first time with a Leica M series camera to use long focal length Leica R lenses. This is great. I also think the new cmos sensor gives excellent well balanced images. All in all thumbs up to the M 240. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Lowe Posted February 3, 2015 Share #23 Posted February 3, 2015 Question to you: What is special about the Leica M for you? 1. Small size 2. The quality of the glass 3. The variety of glass 4. The folks at the Leica Store LA are doing a lot to build a local community with the store as the nexus. They're frequently hosting gallery events, workshops, etc. And they are making those events accessible to everyone who's interested, not just the regular clientele. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted February 3, 2015 Share #24 Posted February 3, 2015 Opinions are just opinions.I understand your professional bias: lawyers are paid to turn client's opinions into "facts" But hopefully, there is no trial here. And freedom of speech. Not the way I practiced law and I don't appreciate the insinuation which is not cured by a smiley. I was very successful by playing things straight and I try to do that here too. Yes to freedom of speech here and to freedom to disagree with someone else's opinion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted February 3, 2015 Share #25 Posted February 3, 2015 Not the way I practiced law and I don't appreciate the insinuation which is not cured by a smiley.I was very successful by playing things straight and I try to do that here too. Yes to freedom of speech here and to freedom to disagree with someone else's opinion. Nor I liked your sentence "free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it", which you used to imply my opinion was worth nothing. You can disagree with me - then feel free to explain yourself; but calling my opinion "worth nothing" is not what I call "playing things straight", and "freedom of speech". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanJW Posted February 3, 2015 Share #26 Posted February 3, 2015 Nor I liked your sentence "free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it", which you used to imply my opinion was worth nothing. You can disagree with me - then feel free to explain yourself; but calling my opinion "worth nothing" is not what I call "playing things straight", and "freedom of speech". But I didn't disagree with you! In fact I agreed that Semetko had better work. I just thought you might have been a little less negative, instead of a "glass half empty" approach. You were the one who said you offered your opinions for free. I'm sorry if you thought my joke about free advice was meant as an insult. It wasn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenonzinonos Posted February 4, 2015 Share #27 Posted February 4, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Interesting video with some valid points. I couldn't help noticing the braided leather strap he had attached to the camera - any suggestions as to where I could purchase one? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus2000 Posted February 8, 2015 Share #28 Posted February 8, 2015 For me one of the interesting points is that a Leica M camera, "demands more from the photographer". This is something that for some people is frustrating and may eventually give up, but for some others it helps them become better photographers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
indergaard Posted February 8, 2015 Share #29 Posted February 8, 2015 For me one of the interesting points is that a Leica M camera, "demands more from the photographer". This is something that for some people is frustrating and may eventually give up, but for some others it helps them become better photographers. Yes. If you look at many Leica photographers many of them tend to look like they're wrestling with their viewfinders and focusing tabs Myself included probably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamey Posted February 10, 2015 Share #30 Posted February 10, 2015 What's unique about the range finder camera, nowdays nobody wants to make them. Ken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBestone Posted February 21, 2015 Share #31 Posted February 21, 2015 I found the video so very informative, from my amateur point of view. I'm an owner of a Digilux 2 and the D-lux 109. My D2 gives me the feel of having ' hands on " control of the camera , which I love and I've been wondering about the rangefinders. The video seems to have just scratched the surface of the camera. Thank you for the input....keep it coming!! -g- Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornnb Posted March 2, 2015 Share #32 Posted March 2, 2015 Question to you: What is special about the Leica M for you? The glass. Plus, you feel more connected to the subject. On a DSLR you feel connected to the photo, to the final product and feel distanced from the subject and the moment. Which has advantages and disadvantages depending on what you're shooting i.e., this is actually good for a very manufactured product like say a wedding shoot. The Leica M has a huge advantage on the street, it is more natural. It encourages a human connection with the subject. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornnb Posted March 2, 2015 Share #33 Posted March 2, 2015 I liked the video. We hear a lot about the big difference between a dSLR and rangefinder being that you can see the area surrounding the framelines. This is undoubtedly true - I get tunnel vision looking through SLR cameras; but I'm not really sure this is the whole picture. This is more of an issue if you're shooting 50mm, for 35mm, as the viewfinder is only 28mm you don't see a whole lot out of the frame. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted March 2, 2015 Share #34 Posted March 2, 2015 This is more of an issue if you're shooting 50mm, for 35mm, as the viewfinder is only 28mm you don't see a whole lot out of the frame. True. It doesn't seem to be a problem with a 28mm lens (which I use a lot), even though there is nothing to be seen outside the frame lines. For some reason, I've never had that looking down a tunnel feeling I used to get with an SLR. Maybe it's something to do with the rendition - looking through the viewfinder window is quite different to looking through the lens at a focussing screen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted March 3, 2015 Share #35 Posted March 3, 2015 looking through the viewfinder window is quite different to looking through the lens at a focussing screen. In a DSLR viewfinder, the eye is focusing on a virtual image that is usually at a much shorter distance than the actual subject in focus. We may not realize it consciously, but this is enough for our brain to feel there is something unusual. But what causes the awkward sensation is the fact that the DSLR image is a flat (2D) pre-focused image and your eye is not free to focus freely on any object in the frame, hence the strong feeling of looking at a 2D movie screen rather than a real 3D image. The RF image is instead a full 3D image, just a bit minified. Only the framelines and the info LEDs are at set to appear at a short virtual distance. And yes, this is a unique advantage of the RF over DSLR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted March 16, 2015 Share #36 Posted March 16, 2015 In the movie "Finding Vivian Maier" Joel Meyerowitz comments that by using a TLR at waist level, she could maintain rapport with her subjects while shooting. Some probably never realized she was photographing them. I don't think very many street photographers worked this way and waist level TLR shooting has not been a very common method for a while. Perhaps flip LCDs have taken that place for a few. In any case I really liked her approach and know she also shot at eye level with a Leica. It would be interesting to compare what she did with each method. I think for most experienced photographers, the gear becomes transparent after a while, whatever they use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecaton Posted March 24, 2015 Share #37 Posted March 24, 2015 Question to you: What is special about the Leica M for you? It lets me see the subject and not the camera, it becomes "transparent" in use. Unlike the many mirror less of different makes I wrestled with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony740607 Posted May 6, 2015 Share #38 Posted May 6, 2015 I always get inspired by NYC. Been there 11 times but I assume that I will never have enough of the city. I bought the Leica M-P two days ago and the camera has not been to NYC (I think) so time to go again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loren Posted June 30, 2015 Share #39 Posted June 30, 2015 It's fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kilmister Posted June 30, 2015 Share #40 Posted June 30, 2015 Is there a link to the video somewhere? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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