-Your camera will meter in Av and M mode. -Focus confirmation in the viewfinder. -Image stabilization in the newest Pentax bodies. -Diaphragm ring detents that will "click" like the original bayonet. I have the K20D, but I think the settings are similar on other models: in theCustom Set...
I decided to get back to my photography roots and brought Leica's new R9 SLR camera with me to document my first trip to this destination. Leica first introduced the R range in 1965. The new Leica R9 is a finely tuned 35mm film SLR camera. Like other Leicas, it's rugged. You can...
When I was 12, newly initiated into a subsequent lifetime of camera gear enthusiasm, presently lusting after a Nikon F (I couldn’t even conceive of owning a Leicaflex; it and the Alpa SLR were unobtainable objects for simple folks like me, to be dreamed of only), I ended up confrontin...
Best Leica M film camera? Great question! When I think back to buying my first analogue film Leica M camera I’m not sure how I decided to buy the particular camera I did. It doesn’t help that Leica M cameras all look pretty much identical to the untrained eye....
Leica started out as maker of small, simple cameras. If you needed a small, exceptionally well designed and made 35mm film camera, they offered you the tool. Any elitism that accompanied the Leica camera was a result of its status as the best built, most robust, and simplest photographic ...
A Leica M3. A Beautiful Camera, No Doubt It’s a question I’m increasingly asking myself. It seems rather predictable these days: prospective first time Leica film camera owners fixate upon the M3 as theirentreeinto Leica film camera ownership. Granted, find one in decent condition and it...
t need the special capabilities of an SLR, I shoot with the Leica. I just like it. And as for the status, most folks seeing an old guy like me with an obviously ancient metal camera are more likely to have pity than envy. They don’t even know what it is, nor do they take it...
Vintage Leica D.R.P Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Film CameraLeica D.R.P Ernst Leitz Wetzlar camera comes with lens and leather case. F=5cm 1:3.5 lens. Serial No. 411287. *notes- camera is untested but appears to be in great condition. Slight wear on leather ca ...
I have been reading about the history of the modern 35mm system camera as a result of some experiments using a 1960 Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex Super (SLR) and some expired 35mm Fuji Velvia 50 that had been gifted to me. I knew next to nothing about Zeiss-Ikon, only that Zeiss today make ...
My two favorite lenses with the old film SLR were 55mm and 300mm. I could not afford a zoom lens back then. Having this 25-400mm (equavilent) lens in the size of an average SLR with a (really fat) 55m fixed lens is nirvana for me in the camera world.I enjoy having a decent ...