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Unlike an SLR, the Leica CL + the 9cm Elmar allowed me to see people and objects before they came into frame and it was, for want of a better word, liberating. There’s no depth of field or change in focus cues aside from the tiny rangefinder patch. First of all, I wear specs, so those framelines weren’t always easy to see edge-to-edge. My previous rangefinders all had fixed 40mm or 50mm lenses with framelines that nearly completely filled the viewfinder.įor me, this causes a little visual confusion. Not because the lens was anything spectacular, it was all about the focal length and how it was presented in the viewfinder.
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The 9cm (90mm) focal length on that diminutive Leica CL was a shockingly potent combination. My past experience with longer lenses on rangefinders had been frankly terrible but I wanted to use the camera ASAP and happily took it off his hands. While at a friend’s camera store (buying LTM to M-mount adapters), he mentioned that he had an old Leica Elmar 9cm f/4 lens he wasn’t using and would be happy to lend it to me until my lenses arrived. The cheapest lens he had for sale was nearly US$1000, so I went on eBay and 30 minutes later I had purchased two moderately well-reviewed Industar lenses that would be with me within about a week. The only problem was my complete lack of lenses for it. We arranged to meet up the following evening and I’ll give him credit, he wasn’t overplaying his hand. This may lead you to believe that everything else in the article is utter tosh - justification of GAS if you will - in reality, these and a few other successes were not the norm and for me at least, relatively hard to capture with consistent success. As fate would have it, they were all taken with a rangefinder.
Leica m6 ttl archive#
The photos below, which I dug through my archive for, show the type of photography I’m trying to describe. When it comes to simple fixed-focus viewfinder cameras, zone focus Holgas/Dianas, AF point and shoots and yes, rangefinders, I’ve used more than a few but when it comes to being able to only choose one camera for the day, my pre-Leica self would always go for the SLR. They allow me to see my final image in perfect clarity and (I think) waste less film because of that. Judge me if you will because the results aren’t always everyone’s cup of tea but that’s not important, they’re MY cup of tea and since I only shoot for myself, that’s what counts.īecause of this, over the years I’ve naturally preferred using SLR cameras or cameras which employ a ground glass. I have a complicated relationship with subject isolation and very shallow depth of field. You might say that my visualisation skills need exercise but trust me, I’ve had a fair bit of practice over the years. I’ve never truly gotten on with cameras that don’t let me see what my lens does. I appreciate this is a strange way to start an article about a film camera - love letter is a tropey but better label, perhaps - but that’s where we are and I’ll need some time to rewind the clock a little more until I’m able to swing back to today. 12 Is the Leica M6 TTL 0.85 the best M film camera Leica has ever made?.11 Five years with my Leica M6 TTL 0.85.10 Humble pie time: I was wrong about Leica.9 Post-accident: an unexpected experience with Leica service.8 Finally, my own 90: the Leica Tele-Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8.
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7 Finding my perfect Leica: the M6 TTL 0.85.6 Tangent: what is Effective Base Length (EBL) and why should I care?.4 My nifty fifty: the Canon Serenar 50mm f/1.5.2 The Leica CL and my descent into rangefinder “hell”.Learning to love a rangefinder camera: Five years with the Leica M6 TTL 0.85 - EMULSIVE Close Search for: