Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
p.1638 #1Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
genji wrote:
I'd say M10P's quietness and compactness are two most important features for me over MP240. You just got yourself best street tool.Thank you! I'd say that my next M camera will be a Monochrom model based on the M10-P's sensor, viewfinder, and shutter. I'm not holding my breath though. In the meantime I intend to sell off a bunch of gear in order to fund the purchase of a 50 APO.
I think you made a wonderful choice for m10P. another important feature I forget mention is electronic level, which may not be that important for you on street but I use that all the time during travel.
As for focus and recompose, many cases, you don't need that. you can focus any part of the body having the same distance to you as their face or even purposely front or back focus on some other part you can easy access with knowing distance relationship of your focus point and subject. A specialty of Rangefinder is giving you distance information through how close focus patch meet. You can use that to do focus trap on street etc...
For stop down shooting, I enjoy rangefinder shooting the most. I know fancy Af can do many things for you nowadays, but I don't enjoy the process as much and usually get a lot more images than needed. It is like fishing itself or buying fish from supermarket
IMO, M system is only reason Leica still be around.
21SEM MP240 Grand Canyon Sunset
zhangyue wrote
Congratulation for M10P. It will be my next M camera I'd say M10P's quietness and compactness are two most important features for me over MP240. You just got yourself best street tool.I think you made a wonderful choice for m10P. another important feature I forget mention is electronic level, which may not be that important for you on street but I use that all the time during travel.
As for focus and recompose, many cases, you don't need that. you can focus any part of the body having the same distance to you as their face or even purposely front or back focus on some other part you can easy access with knowing distance relationship of your focus point and subject. A specialty of Rangefinder is giving you distance information through how close focus patch meet. You can use that to do focus trap on street etc...
For stop down shooting, I enjoy rangefinder shooting the most. I know fancy Af can do many things for you nowadays, but I don't enjoy the process as much and usually get a lot more images than needed. It is like fishing itself or buying fish from supermarket
IMO, M system is only reason Leica still be around.
21SEM MP240 Grand Canyon Sunset
Jan 23, 2019 at 06:58 PM
p.1638 #2Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
genji wrote:
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190122-183932-0108-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpgSo did you pick up an M 240?Nope. I was going to follow your advice and get an M 10 but then the assistant manager at the Leica Store upsold me to an M 10-P. 
Congratulations Jonathon
Leica M system is just awesome. Every one carries on about how expensive Leica is but you only need 1 or 2 superb lenses and that is it. With other systems you end with many lenses that are mediocre and the investment is about the same. Have heaps of fun!!!
airfrogusmc wrote
genji wrote
If anyone had asked me a week ago what was the likelihood of my posting a picture in the Leica M/X/T/S/Q Picture Thread, I'd have confidently answered: "Either Buckley's or none", an Australian idiom which means either a very small chance or (more likely) no chance at all. Yet here we go...http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190122-183932-0108-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
Congratulations Jonathon
Leica M system is just awesome. Every one carries on about how expensive Leica is but you only need 1 or 2 superb lenses and that is it. With other systems you end with many lenses that are mediocre and the investment is about the same. Have heaps of fun!!!Jan 24, 2019 at 03:06 AM
p.1638 #3Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
zhangyue wrote:
I'd say M10P's quietness and compactness are two most important features for me over MP240. You just got yourself best street tool.Thank you! I'd say that my next M camera will be a Monochrom model based on the M10-P's sensor, viewfinder, and shutter. I'm not holding my breath though. In the meantime I intend to sell off a bunch of gear in order to fund the purchase of a 50 APO.I think you made a wonderful choice for m10P. another important feature I forget mention is electronic level, which may not be that important for you on street but I use that all the time during travel.
As for focus and recompose, many cases, you don't need that. you can focus any part of the body having the same distance to you as their face or even purposely front or back focus on some other part you can easy access with knowing distance relationship of your focus point and subject. A specialty of Rangefinder is giving you distance information through...Show more →
Michael this shot is awesome !!!
genji wrote
zhangyue wrote
Congratulation for M10P. It will be my next M camera I'd say M10P's quietness and compactness are two most important features for me over MP240. You just got yourself best street tool.As for focus and recompose, many cases, you don't need that. you can focus any part of the body having the same distance to you as their face or even purposely front or back focus on some other part you can easy access with knowing distance relationship of your focus point and subject. A specialty of Rangefinder is giving you distance information through...Show more →
Michael this shot is awesome !!!
Jan 24, 2019 at 03:06 AM
p.1638 #4Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
charles.K wrote:
I'd say M10P's quietness and compactness are two most important features for me over MP240. You just got yourself best street tool.Thank you! I'd say that my next M camera will be a Monochrom model based on the M10-P's sensor, viewfinder, and shutter. I'm not holding my breath though. In the meantime I intend to sell off a bunch of gear in order to fund the purchase of a 50 APO.I think you made a wonderful choice for m10P. another important feature I forget mention is electronic level, which may not be that important for you on street but I use that all the time during travel.
As for focus and recompose, many cases, you don't need that. you can focus any part of the body having the same distance to you as their face or even purposely front or back focus on some other part you can easy access with knowing distance relationship of your focus point and subject. A specialty of Rangefinder is giving you distance information through how close focus patch meet. You can use that to do focus trap on street etc...
For stop down shooting, I enjoy rangefinder shooting the most. I know fancy Af can do many things for you nowadays, but I don't enjoy the process as much and usually get a lot more images than needed. It is like fishing itself or buying fish from supermarket
IMO, M system is only reason Leica still be around.
21SEM MP240 Grand Canyon Sunset
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7868/39882465753_c0ed08bea6_h.jpgMichael this shot is awesome !!!
Charles, you are too kind as always .
50lux ASPH WO
A few quick shots during my Grand Canyon trip. Images like this are the reason I love this lens so much. Rendering is so beautiful.
zhangyue wrote
genji wrote
zhangyue wrote
Congratulation for M10P. It will be my next M camera I'd say M10P's quietness and compactness are two most important features for me over MP240. You just got yourself best street tool.As for focus and recompose, many cases, you don't need that. you can focus any part of the body having the same distance to you as their face or even purposely front or back focus on some other part you can easy access with knowing distance relationship of your focus point and subject. A specialty of Rangefinder is giving you distance information through how close focus patch meet. You can use that to do focus trap on street etc...
For stop down shooting, I enjoy rangefinder shooting the most. I know fancy Af can do many things for you nowadays, but I don't enjoy the process as much and usually get a lot more images than needed. It is like fishing itself or buying fish from supermarket
IMO, M system is only reason Leica still be around.
21SEM MP240 Grand Canyon Sunset
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7868/39882465753_c0ed08bea6_h.jpg
Charles, you are too kind as always .
50lux ASPH WO
A few quick shots during my Grand Canyon trip. Images like this are the reason I love this lens so much. Rendering is so beautiful.
Jan 25, 2019 at 05:40 PM
p.1638 #5Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Just got back from a trip to Thailand - lots of fun with the Leica TL2.
Jan 26, 2019 at 08:20 AM
p.1638 #7Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Not much shooting from me at present although I am still processing a bunch of infrared and 'normal' images from a couple of weeks back.
Here's the 19th Cent. Bethungra Hotel in a former mining area, now just a very small village.
Storm clouds were building and about 15mins later I was able to sit out a short squall (and take some IR photos of the dramatic skies).
M8, Jupiter-12 with UV+IR filter
Ricoh GXR A12 (LM) sensor with IR conversion, converted Contax G21 Biogon, 3-shots
Same as #2, in IR false colour
Ricoh GXR A12 with Contax G21 Biogon ( 2 shots)
Here's the 19th Cent. Bethungra Hotel in a former mining area, now just a very small village.
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Jan 26, 2019 at 06:03 PM
p.1638 #8Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Rob L wrote:
Genji,
It will be interesting to see how you adapt. It seems from the Sony forum that you almost exclusively "shoot from the hip". This can be done with a Leica if you zone focus and stop down a bit. Works great with a 28mm lens, but not so well with a 50, which you seem to favor. Good luck!
You're correct, Rob. I did shoot with a 50 on the Sony, as you say, almost exclusively from the hip. But, to be honest, I bought a Leica M10-P because I hoped it might encourage me to work more consciously and deliberately. This post in a thread about the ways in which the Leica M10 excels resonated with me (and, of course, applies to any M camera):
The M10 is uniquely good at forcing one to see the subject ("the thing itself") as it exists.
It refuses to show you depth-of-field (or lack thereof), or pretty bokeh, or lens "perspective" or exposure preview - just the world at about a 32mm field of view, with a part of the world framed by a box. And if what you see within that box is not especially interesting in and of itself, it reminds you forcefully that to get a truly interesting photograph, you must do things to change what is within the box (the content), rather than count on the...Show more →
I did follow your suggestion about trying a 28mm, though not from the hip...
Genji,
It will be interesting to see how you adapt. It seems from the Sony forum that you almost exclusively "shoot from the hip". This can be done with a Leica if you zone focus and stop down a bit. Works great with a 28mm lens, but not so well with a 50, which you seem to favor. Good luck!
You're correct, Rob. I did shoot with a 50 on the Sony, as you say, almost exclusively from the hip. But, to be honest, I bought a Leica M10-P because I hoped it might encourage me to work more consciously and deliberately. This post in a thread about the ways in which the Leica M10 excels resonated with me (and, of course, applies to any M camera):
The M10 is uniquely good at forcing one to see the subject ("the thing itself") as it exists.
It refuses to show you depth-of-field (or lack thereof), or pretty bokeh, or lens "perspective" or exposure preview - just the world at about a 32mm field of view, with a part of the world framed by a box. And if what you see within that box is not especially interesting in and of itself, it reminds you forcefully that to get a truly interesting photograph, you must do things to change what is within the box (the content), rather than count on the...Show more →
I did follow your suggestion about trying a 28mm, though not from the hip...
Jan 26, 2019 at 07:48 PM
p.1638 #9Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
charles.K wrote:
Congratulations Jonathon Leica M system is just awesome. Every one carries on about how expensive Leica is but you only need 1 or 2 superb lenses and that is it. With other systems you end with many lenses that are mediocre and the investment is about the same. Have heaps of fun!!!
Thank you, Charles! Fortunately (or not) I have way too many lenses already to mount on the new camera. In fact, my frustration at not being able to get the best from them on Sony bodies was another reason to purchase a Leica M body. From what I've been able to figure out, however, I am now standing at the top of the slippery slope that leads to my gradually replacing my most used third-party lenses with their Leica "equivalents".
Congratulations Jonathon
Leica M system is just awesome. Every one carries on about how expensive Leica is but you only need 1 or 2 superb lenses and that is it. With other systems you end with many lenses that are mediocre and the investment is about the same. Have heaps of fun!!!Thank you, Charles! Fortunately (or not) I have way too many lenses already to mount on the new camera. In fact, my frustration at not being able to get the best from them on Sony bodies was another reason to purchase a Leica M body. From what I've been able to figure out, however, I am now standing at the top of the slippery slope that leads to my gradually replacing my most used third-party lenses with their Leica "equivalents".
Jan 26, 2019 at 08:01 PM
p.1638 #10Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Hi Jonathon, that is a great post by Andy at the Leica forum! I saw that when he first posted. I've never heard the rangefinder experience described in quite that way, but so true. Range finders force you to visualize the result rather than composing by zooming in and out and panning back and forth until you like the look. There is something about viewing through the lens, whether with an SLR or good Electronic Viewfinder that often fools you into thinking something is a good shot, only to be disappointed later.
Jan 27, 2019 at 09:00 AM
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p.1638 #11Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
genji wrote:
It will be interesting to see how you adapt. It seems from the Sony forum that you almost exclusively "shoot from the hip". This can be done with a Leica if you zone focus and stop down a bit. Works great with a 28mm lens, but not so well with a 50, which you seem to favor. Good luck!You're correct, Rob. I did shoot with a 50 on the Sony, as you say, almost exclusively from the hip. But, to be honest, I bought a Leica M10-P because I hoped it might encourage me to work more consciously and deliberately. This post in a thread about the ways in which the Leica M10 excels resonated with me (and, of course, applies to any M camera):
It refuses to show you depth-of-field (or lack thereof), or pretty bokeh, or lens "perspective" or exposure preview - just the world at about a 32mm field of view, with a part of the world framed by a box. And if what you see within that box is not especially interesting in and of itself, it reminds you forcefully that to get a truly interesting photograph, you must do things to change what is within the box (the content), rather than count on the toys of photography to make something inherently boring into a prettier version of something inherently boring.I did follow your suggestion about trying a 28mm, though not from the hip...
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183843-0377-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183927-0379-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-185236-0403-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
Wonderful images. You have taken to the M 10P like a duck to water.
Rob L wrote
Genji,It will be interesting to see how you adapt. It seems from the Sony forum that you almost exclusively "shoot from the hip". This can be done with a Leica if you zone focus and stop down a bit. Works great with a 28mm lens, but not so well with a 50, which you seem to favor. Good luck!
Earlier quote
The M10 is uniquely good at forcing one to see the subject ("the thing itself") as it exists.It refuses to show you depth-of-field (or lack thereof), or pretty bokeh, or lens "perspective" or exposure preview - just the world at about a 32mm field of view, with a part of the world framed by a box. And if what you see within that box is not especially interesting in and of itself, it reminds you forcefully that to get a truly interesting photograph, you must do things to change what is within the box (the content), rather than count on the toys of photography to make something inherently boring into a prettier version of something inherently boring.
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183843-0377-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183927-0379-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-185236-0403-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
Wonderful images. You have taken to the M 10P like a duck to water.
Jan 27, 2019 at 09:19 AM
p.1638 #12Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
airfrogusmc wrote:
It will be interesting to see how you adapt. It seems from the Sony forum that you almost exclusively "shoot from the hip". This can be done with a Leica if you zone focus and stop down a bit. Works great with a 28mm lens, but not so well with a 50, which you seem to favor. Good luck!You're correct, Rob. I did shoot with a 50 on the Sony, as you say, almost exclusively from the hip. But, to be honest, I bought a Leica M10-P because I hoped it might encourage me to work more consciously and deliberately. This post in a thread about the ways in which the Leica M10 excels resonated with me (and, of course, applies to any M camera):
It refuses to show you depth-of-field (or lack thereof), or pretty bokeh, or lens "perspective" or exposure preview - just the world at about a 32mm field of view, with a part of the world framed by a box. And if what you see within that box is not especially interesting in and of itself, it reminds you forcefully that to get a truly interesting photograph, you must do things to change what is within the box (the content), rather than count on the toys of photography to make something inherently boring into a prettier version of something inherently boring.I did follow your suggestion about trying a 28mm, though not from the hip...
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183843-0377-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183927-0379-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-185236-0403-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpgWonderful images. You have taken to the M 10P like a duck to water.
Thank you, Allen. That’s a marvellous compliment, coming as it does from a genuinely accomplished photographer whose work I greatly admire. At the moment though, this duck is mainly aware of his feet paddling furiously under the water.
genji wrote
Rob L wrote
Genji,It will be interesting to see how you adapt. It seems from the Sony forum that you almost exclusively "shoot from the hip". This can be done with a Leica if you zone focus and stop down a bit. Works great with a 28mm lens, but not so well with a 50, which you seem to favor. Good luck!
Earlier quote
The M10 is uniquely good at forcing one to see the subject ("the thing itself") as it exists.It refuses to show you depth-of-field (or lack thereof), or pretty bokeh, or lens "perspective" or exposure preview - just the world at about a 32mm field of view, with a part of the world framed by a box. And if what you see within that box is not especially interesting in and of itself, it reminds you forcefully that to get a truly interesting photograph, you must do things to change what is within the box (the content), rather than count on the toys of photography to make something inherently boring into a prettier version of something inherently boring.
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183843-0377-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-183927-0379-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
http://d1u92k3d1w68j5.cloudfront.net/photos/social-landscape/jd-20190126-185236-0403-m10pa-copy01-w1200bc.jpg
Thank you, Allen. That’s a marvellous compliment, coming as it does from a genuinely accomplished photographer whose work I greatly admire. At the moment though, this duck is mainly aware of his feet paddling furiously under the water.
Jan 27, 2019 at 04:14 PM
p.1638 #13Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Here are a couple of admittedly very mediocre street shots, from Cootamundra, a small town in New South Wales.
M8.2 and LM-converted Contax G21 f/2.8 Biogon
Architectural and natural curves
And a cropped mono version
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And a cropped mono version
Jan 27, 2019 at 04:45 PM
p.1638 #14Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Ok, last three for now...
All Contax G21 f/2.8 Biogon, on IR-converted Ricoh GXR (A12 LM) APSC sensor, or M8.2
Subaru under storm couds by David M, on Flickr
3-shot pano
Panorama under storm clouds by David M, on Flickr
The Albion Hotel by David M, on Flickr
All Contax G21 f/2.8 Biogon, on IR-converted Ricoh GXR (A12 LM) APSC sensor, or M8.2
Subaru under storm couds by David M, on Flickr3-shot pano
Panorama under storm clouds by David M, on FlickrThe Albion Hotel by David M, on FlickrJan 27, 2019 at 06:47 PM
p.1638 #15Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
A couple more from Australia Day...
Jan 28, 2019 at 05:09 AM
p.1638 #16Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
After my relatively successful outing with the new Leica on Australia Day, it struck me that Luna Park, an amusement park on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour, might offer further opportunities for Leica-style picture making. An adult day pass (unlimited rides and access to Coney Island) costs AUD55 (~USD40/~CAD52/~EUR34/~GBP30) whereas an annual pass costs only AUD99. Yesterday I purchased an annual pass and took my first pictures.
The Wikipedia entry states that Coney Island, where the second photo was taken, "is the only operating example of a 1930s funhouse left in the world. Although some changes have been made over the years, the layout is almost identical to when Luna Park opened in 1935." I almost drowned in waves of nostalgia when I walked inside, it was just like being 10 again, all those years ago.
The Wikipedia entry states that Coney Island, where the second photo was taken, "is the only operating example of a 1930s funhouse left in the world. Although some changes have been made over the years, the layout is almost identical to when Luna Park opened in 1935." I almost drowned in waves of nostalgia when I walked inside, it was just like being 10 again, all those years ago.
Jan 29, 2019 at 04:52 AM
p.1638 #17Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Took this before landing in Paris with M9 and Summicron-M 50-APO.
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Jan 29, 2019 at 12:49 PM
p.1638 #18Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
ocean2059 wrote:
Took this before landing in Paris with M9 and Summicron-M 50-APO.
Really nice. You've been lucky to have such a view...
Took this before landing in Paris with M9 and Summicron-M 50-APO.
Really nice. You've been lucky to have such a view...
Jan 29, 2019 at 01:02 PM
p.1638 #19Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
pmeheut wrote:
Really nice. You've been lucky to have such a view...
Thank you pmeheut. Yes, I was very luck that day. Great view of Paris on the landing approach to CDG. Just hope that I can visit Paris more often.
ocean2059 wrote
Took this before landing in Paris with M9 and Summicron-M 50-APO.Thank you pmeheut. Yes, I was very luck that day. Great view of Paris on the landing approach to CDG. Just hope that I can visit Paris more often.
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Jan 29, 2019 at 01:19 PM
p.1638 #20Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread
Great view of Paris on the landing approach to CDG. Just hope that I can visit Paris more often.
I hear you. I have the same feeling with NY and London. Not Paris though as I live there.
I hear you. I have the same feeling with NY and London. Not Paris though as I live there.
Jan 29, 2019 at 01:31 PM