Leica photographers - the naked truth

[MattKing]

Dangling an RB67 from a neck strap might, though.

I used to use a longer strap - so that it could go diagonally across my body.
There is even three ways to attach the strap:

How cool is that?!

 

[4season]

real douchebags would be using cascas, red flag 20s, and gammas rather than common or garden leicas.

No, those would probably be vintage camera enthusiasts. In order to impress members of the general public or even many other enthusiasts, stuff needs better brand recognition.

 

[4season]

I’ve only so much as held a Leica in my hands once (it was an SL).

I haven’t washed my hands since.

You know if you lick yourself clean like a cat, the Leica becomes a part of you.

 

[Rlibersky]

Of course the camera is only a tool and great things can be had with any in skilled hands. But I do have to say of the Leica owners I know none have been arrogant or assholey. Mostly it is the photographers that are in the group constintly telling them why Leicas are that great for the price that are most annoying. Why the hell do they care? Just take the picture and move on.

 

[BobD]

The digital guys have their gear snobbery too. They seem especially enamored with megapixel counts and don't seem to notice that they're throwing most of them away when they re-size their enormous photos down to a usable size to show them.

 

[removed account4]

The digital guys have their gear snobbery too. They seem especially enamored with megapixel counts and don't seem to notice that they're throwing most of them away when they re-size their enormous photos down to a usable size to show them.

LOL. you have never been to a forum where people use giant negatives from cameras / gear that cost as much as my parents' first house, drum scanned and hosted / hot-linked and its an enormous file that can't even be viewed except as weird abstractions. its like photographers going up to a print under glass at a gallery or museum or someone's house on the wall &c and inspecting the grain. photographer are strange.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

very good

 

[markjwyatt]

Would you rather have your car repaired by an excellent mechanic who uses Craftsmen tools, or a lousy one that uses Snap-On?

 

[Radost]

I just developed kodak vision3 500t from Minolta CLE.
Some 40mm minolta f2.8 and a few Leica 28mm F2.8. I have to say the leica rendering look so much better. Same lighting. Same aperture. Same location. Huge difference.
I did not expect such a difference.

 

[markjwyatt]

I just developed kodak vision3 500t form Minolta CLE.
Some 40mm minolta f2.8 and a few Leica 28mm F2.8. I have to say the leica shots look so much better. Same lighting. Same aperture. Same location.
I did not expect such a difference.

Lenses are what matter most. Cameras need to advance accurately, hold the film flat, be light tight, and hopefully operate intuitively and reliably, and the shutter needs to be reasonably accurate (if in the camera, but similarly in a lens), but the lens you attach can make a big difference. Something about German lenses, but many great Japanese ones also.

 

[Radost]

Lenses are what matter most. Cameras need to advance accurately, hold the film flat, be light tight, and hopefully operate intuitively and reliably, and the shutter needs to be reasonably accurate (if in the camera, but similarly in a lens), but the lens you attach can make a big difference. Something about German lenses, but many great Japanese ones also.

True about everything especially the shutter accuracy. This is why I shoot electronic shutters.

 

[Craig75]

No, those would probably be vintage camera enthusiasts. In order to impress members of the general public or even many other enthusiasts, stuff needs better brand recognition.

ahh leica is the hugo boss jumper with logo in 144 point right across the front of it of cameras

 

[Don_ih]

I used to use a longer strap - so that it could go diagonally across my body.
There is even three ways to attach the strap:
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How cool is that?!

It should be a harness - to distribute the weight.

Everyone should start picking on Yashica T4 users, now.

 

[Charles Escott-New]

Watch some of The Magic of Light videos to get how great this spoof is. The price of the lens hood hit the target, Thorsten sells them. I was hoping they would introduce one of his leather bags, think Ona + + in price, that a real Leica man has to own. The guy who leads on this video put me on to the Ricoh GR, for which I thank him.

 

[removed account4]

True about everything especially the shutter accuracy. This is why I shoot electronic shutters.

accurate shutters are for hacks. gotta be the camera, and feel the light, anything else, might as well be using one of those dreaded battery operated hassle gladEVs and be tethered to a Honda generator while doing street work.. I hear some of them were installed with KITT's voice from knight rider and every time you press the shutter it says "good job" when I use Leica I feel the buzz, mine's special though has the voice of the HCB saying "merde, raté!" pretty much every exposure I make. it knows im not being the camera and feeling the light.

 

[chriscrawfordphoto]

The digital guys have their gear snobbery too. They seem especially enamored with megapixel counts and don't seem to notice that they're throwing most of them away when they re-size their enormous photos down to a usable size to show them.

That's a dumb statement. By your argument, no one should use large format cameras. High-megapixel cameras serve the same purpose; they allow making large high resolution prints. For those of us who regularly sell large prints, it isn't 'snobbery,' it's professionalism.

 

[benjiboy]

I shoot Canon New F1s, and F1ns, I have never wanted a Leica.

 

[BobD]

That's a dumb statement.

No, it isn't dumb at all. For a person who can read, anyway, which you evidently have a problem with.

The point is not that there is something wrong with taking large images. There is nothing wrong with that at all.

Try reading the post again or maybe have someone who is more literate read it to you.

 

[faberryman]

That's a dumb statement. By your argument, no one should use large format cameras. High-megapixel cameras serve the same purpose; they allow making large high resolution prints. For those of us who regularly sell large prints, it isn't 'snobbery,' it's professionalism.

I thought you downsized from FF to M43 a couple of years ago.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Leica Camera AG marketing texts are copy of late Soviet time official language. Very pathetic about something which isn't really special.

 

[Don_ih]

24mpx at 300dpi is a 14x18 print. Anything bigger is interpolation. Almost no one is buying higher megapixel cameras to make big prints, though, so it really doesn't matter. Almost no one using a film camera is making prints, either - even people with Leicas. It's a sad, sad thing. Pictures are now almost entirely digital phenomena.

 

[faberryman]

Leica Camera AG marketing texts are copy of late Soviet time official language. Very pathetic about something which isn't really special.

I thought you shot with a Leica. Your mother gave it to you for your birthday or something.

 

[Jim Jones]

I shoot Canon New F1s, and F1ns, I have never wanted a Leica.

I drive a battered Toyota. I have never wanted a Mercedes, although some models from the 1930s looked magnificent.

 

[Arthurwg]

Would you rather have your car repaired by an excellent mechanic who uses Craftsmen tools, or a lousy one that uses Snap-On?

Well said.

 

[faberryman]

Well said.

Well, I thought Craftsman tools were better than the usual junk you buy down at Home Depot, and I have no idea about Snap-On tools other than they are expensive because the guy has to drive his Snap-On truck all over town just to sell a mechanic a wrench. Still, I’d go with the excellent mechanic over the lousy mechanic if it were an old car. If it were a new car I’d go to the dealer because he’s the one with the computer and usually has the parts in stock. The dealer also has coffee, snacks, and a big TV in the waiting room. Oil changes are cheaper at the dealer too because they run them as loss leaders. The real advantage to oil changes at the dealer is that they hook you up to the computer as a courtesy and find out that if you don’t replace your transmission now, it will fall out on the way home saving you the cost of a tow truck.