![]() Years with automatic focus, and many other automatic buttons to help control a number of photographic problems that never existed, have created monsters of cameras operated by a generation of photographers, dealing with the subject of photography as if it was incomprehensible. I could try to explain the simplicity, but their eyes darts with the jealousy of the illiterate. Yes it is manual focus, as it always was. Leica M9 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. They sort of do, but the last question is always the same, “Is it still manual focus?” and we all know the answer to that question. When I meet press photographers, they often stare at the Leica with almost wet eyes and a distant look in their eyes as if they look at memories from a happy childhood. You easily forget the basic virtues in the constant stream of new cameras with fancy features. ![]() Like it used to be when it was film in the 1970’s. You have to appreciate the simplicity of the Leica M9. I've added this Leica M9 review to my Magic of Light Photography Television channel: Leica M9 Video Review on Magic of Light Television "It’s like therapy for the human spirit." It's elevated from geometric patterns to actual storytelling by practical use of space, rhythm, time, colors, emotions and intuition in your photography. In this exciting new book Thorsten Overgaard expands and simplifies the subject of composition. This book will inspire your photographic eye and make you wonder about all the possibilities you can now see. It's been workin' so long it don't know how to stop.Ĭannes Film Festival, May 2016. Just for a week you know, but then when I had them back, I kept using the Leica M9. My two Leica M 240 cameras had to go off to the factory in Wezlar for adjustment and cleaning back in April 2016. Leica M9 with Leica 75mm Summilux-M f/1.4. What should have been a few days turned into a few weeks and then suddenly more than a month. 37 months after the Leica M9 disappeared into the closet, the Leica M9 returned.įirst 179,000 actuations on my two Leica M9 cameras and then a few years without any action, then I called my Leica M9 back into action. I was sitting in my car on the Autostrade to Rome, pretending nothing had happened.
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