Category: The Leica Journal
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Loving life with a 90mm
For all the other gear I have that’s probably more suited to woodland and landscape photography I love to get out into the woods with my Leica M10-P and a couple of lenses. It feels a much more cathartic experience shooting with a Leica M over the Nikon Z6 I have. It’s a slower process, […]
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Hello Mr Wild Garlic
Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Minolta Rokkor-C 90mm F4 3 shot panoramic stitched in Lightroom.
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Craving Simplicity
Sometimes it all gets a bit too much and at the moment my seemingly endless quest to find the right camera gear has been giving me a rather painful bout of sensory overload. I’ll be honest, it’s even starting to piss me off. I have two very different systems I use for the majority of […]
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Falling in love all over again
A little while ago, I had a bit of a clear out of camera gear I had with the intention of picking up a lens or two for my Leica M10-P. In the end somehow I managed to talk myself into buying a Nikon Zfc, thinking it would be a fun camera for casual, everyday […]
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All in on Leica?
A little while ago I wrote a blog post about the compromises I make shooting with the Leica M10-P. At the time I have to say I was struggling to justify quite a bit about it for my needs. The quality of the images I could make with it were never in doubt, but it […]
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Gentle Colour
A couple of weeks back, we had a little bit of mist in my part of the world along with some pretty cold conditions. I wandered a small woodland area for a couple of hours or so along with a common I’d been eyeing up, which proved to be rather beautiful with the sun and […]
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Happy Anniversary ‘Cron
It’s exactly a year since I pushed the button and was lucky enough to buy myself a Leica Summicron 35mm f2 ASPH. When I bought my Leica M10-P a couple of years ago or so, I promised myself I would one day own a Leica Summicron 35mm ASPH. It’s one of those lenses that through […]
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Sunday Strolling
Hanging the Leica M10-P over the shoulder along with the small but excellent Leica Summicron C 40mm f2 makes for a very compact, easy to use set up. What better way to spend a sunny Sunday morning than wandering along the local canal towpaths looking for compositions with a flat white coffee as mid walk […]
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Starting to Feel The Black and White Pull
I’ve been shooting and editing to black and white almost exclusively since before Christmas and since the beginning of the New Year I’ve been shooting with a monochrome view through the live view of my camera. I convert those images to a black and white preset when importing the files in to Lightroom, in order […]
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I Still Shoot Film!
It’s been a while and it doesn’t happen very often, but I still shoot film! To be honest, my beautiful Leica M6 is in of a good CLA & repair. I have a light leak on some images (taken at higher shutter speeds normally) which I believe could be shutter capping which is where the […]
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A Year of Black and White
Given it’s the end of the year, I always like to try and set objectives for the year ahead. Quite often they don’t work out well – in truth, most objectives I try and set myself quite often come to little, but I like to try and keep myself thinking. A year in black and […]
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Compromise – At what cost?
After a little over two years of owning my Leica M10-P, the thought process is do I need (well I want) to move it on.
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Seasons Change
The best season in the year for woodland enthusiasts like me! Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm f2
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Waiting for the turn
Autumn is almost upon us and most woodland/landscape photographers are waiting for those golden tones that only autumn can offer. That and mist/fog! Camera: Leica M10-P | Lens: Leica Summicron 50mm f2
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Two Years in.
Celebrating two years of Leica M10-P ownership today. It’s been a pleasure to use, not always practical and for sure doesn’t suit all sorts of photography – but the results never fail to impress and it’s always such fun to shoot with.
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First Film Rolls of 2021
A few images from the first two rolls of film shot on the Leica M6 this year.
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A plan Indeed
I love shooting film but hate waiting to finish the film/getting the film back from the lab. The instant gratification I get from digital, spending time out pointing a camera at things and being able to see those results instantaneously is almost like a drug. I don’t want to wait, we live in a world […]
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The Challenge
Happy New Year to you. 2020 has been, well frankly shit for so many people all over the world…let’s hope 2021 improves dramatically for many people.
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Cemetry Stroll
Getting out and about a bit more now that lockdown restrictions are lifted means making the effort to find somewhere to wander and appreciate the time available to do such.
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Leica Summicron 40mm f2
Leica Summicron 40mm f2 – perfect when you love 50mm and adore 35mm and can’t decide if you are a 50 or 35mm man!
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Monte-Carlo Historique – Banbury
Monte-Carlo Historique in Banbury – a fun thing to do on a Thursday morning!
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Loading a Leica M6
Before buying my Leica M6 I read quite a variety of forum posts/blog posts etc with regards to loading film. It appeared that many people struggle with loading even with the quick load system the M6 has.
Analog Dave 