New Voigtlander 50mm F1. The item was exactly as described and packaged extremely well. I am looking forward using it and I shall certainly be buying from you again. I'm looking forward to taking it for spin at the weekend, if I can wait that long!
Thankfully I heard it hit the floor, but if that had happened somewhere busy it would have been game over. I imagine if you have stumbled across this blog only once before it was probably to read an article about a fairly heavily automated camera. I like to take photos with all sorts of cameras, but given the choice, more often than not I choose something with a level of automation, and quite often that results in me picking up a 35mm compact camera.
The Leica M7, due to its manual focus, is possibly a fraction slower to use than some of the cameras I regularly carry. In many ways though it is obviously a lot less restrictive than them too. It provides a more full sense of control, but thanks to the level of automation it does have, it allows for much of the speed of thinking that I revel in when using a fully automated camera.
Some time last year I made the decision to commit to a Leica again, and due to having a lot of the aforementioned automatic cameras I nearly decided to buy an M6 again.
I mentioned the rudimentary nature of the meter earlier in the post, well fairly rudimentary it might be, but very useful it is. My personal experience makes me err toward saying it works more like a centre weighted meter.
This might not seem logical since the meter reading is taken off a white spot painted on to the shutter blind — a spot that actually has a very defined edge. I suppose this is probably down to the size of the meter spot, but I wonder if there is light also reflected off the surrounding area?
One way or another, I find results generally well metered without necessarily having to worry too much in a large range of shooting circumstances. This larger spot, when in aperture priority, is combined with shutter speed readings in the viewfinder. In manual mode, as on the M6TTL, the meter is just shown as two triangles and a circle. This might seem fairly insignificant, but I find these shutter speed readings very useful. As I said, the Leica M7 is good at giving the correct exposure with little thought.
Not that matrix meters always get it right either — they are just designed to at least attempt to do so, which is very much not the case with the M7. Despite this, when there is a difficult scene to meter I find the way the M7 meter works is one of the easiest I have used for assessing for good exposure in the way I feel most comfortable. This is not because it tries to be too clever, but actually because of how simple it is.
From those quick averages I can then make an informed decision at what will give the best overall exposure for what I am trying to achieve. Having assessed the scene I can make a judgement about what shutter speed I want to use, but rather than having to switch the shutter speed dial manually, I can find an area of the scene that gives me the speed I want to use, half press the shutter to lock the speed in, reframe and take the shot. This process is then repeated until you have your desired combined reading.
Then once you have that, it has to be dialled in, then eventually you can shoot. I remember doing just this in Worcester cathedral the one day some years back. I was trying to work out the best exposure for a half candle lit scene, it took a little time, but I got it right in the end.
Taken with my old Leica M6 and 50mm v3 Summicron. The point is, due to the way autoexposure works in the Leica M7 it arguably allows a better understanding of a scene quicker than its non AE equivalents.
And of course, if you still want to shoot it like an M6, you can switch it to manual and fill your boots! Just quickly back to what I was saying about owning the Voigtlander R2A and the time I was mulling over getting an M6 rather than an M7. The mentality I had then was one of already owning an AE rangefinder, I nearly talked myself into the idea that an M7 was a needlessly expensive option when I could have an M6 and Voigtlander for the same money, have the same features and have two bodies.
It made so much sense at the time, and in many ways it still does. But, it all comes back to the way the M7 meters. The Voigtlander meter is biased toward one of the corners, bottom left I think. Take the Nikon range of manual focus SLR cameras.
The F3 has as digital readout, but relies on a crappy little light to illuminate the screen… I could go on for ages! In fact, I would go as far to say that, with the M7 in my hand I feel more confident about my ability to shoot a photo with the exposure I was aiming for than I do with any other camera I have shot with to date. I read a lot about cameras online, and I find a lot of commentary on automation. More specifically where automation is looked upon as cheating to some degree. It is there to give the user a very valid method for ascertaining correct exposure.
This is in fact where I found myself completely agreeing with matey on luminous landscapes. A completely manual camera can hinder the process of photography, especially within certain fields.
The M7 does its best to get out of the way of the the photographer, it allows for quick decisions and fast action without patronising the user or overriding the his or hers actions with over simplification or over dumbing down of function.
There is also a fringe benefit of this AE function in the Leica M7. In the way I use the camera, it makes the crappy exposure compensation dial pretty much redundant! Another favourite from when we saw some fairly serious flooding earlier on this year. There is one other fairly major reason for which I place the Leica M7 on a bit of a pedestal. I remember thinking how nice the M6 was to use, but the M7 feels smoother to me.
The shutter speed selection also feels perfect, in fact all the controls ignoring plastic abomination on the back feel perfect! I do think some people mistake pride in cameras, or at least the mention of it, as their owners using them for bragging rights. That might be the case for some, but pride in ownership of a camera is not about that for everyone. I love owning such a beautiful luxury camera.
And that is, its fair to say, a portion of what a Leica is — a luxury object. But this is not for the benefit of showing off, it is for the benefit of personal enjoyment. It cost me a shit pile of cash, especially when including the cost of the lenses. I could have taken my family on holiday probably twice over for what this cost me, but instead I selfishly spent the money on myself.
How can I not respect it, appreciate it, and take pride in owning it when taking all that into account. Having that pride, respect and appreciation for it has to be a positive thing. I respect it as a thing, but I also respect it in use. The first film I took with it I got this shot, a photo that I hope most would agree has at least some merit? First film with the Summicron and this guy appears just at the right time. Leica leather carry strap for q and q2. Only had this on my m6 for a short while, during which i put just a few rolls through it.
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