How many female leica m users here!:)

How many female leica m users here!:)

  • Female with a Leica M

    Votes: 46 6.5%

  • Male with a Leica M

    Votes: 659 93.5%
  • Total voters
    705
I'm a female Leica M2 user. I don't really post too often but I like to use RFF as an information source. Everyone is quite knowledgeable and very helpful.
 
And I'm afraid there's me too... I hadn't replied sooner as I have been spending the past 2 days shooting with my M2 in the wind, rain and snow. Good times though. Back to work today though :(

Umph. Still. It pays the bills.

Oh and I can't play the guitar on any instrument for jack. But I do like music.

Vicky
 
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hey! nice images on your flickr! :) love your Project : Impression Milton Keynes
Lilserenity said:
And I'm afraid there's me too... I hadn't replied sooner as I have been spending the past 2 days shooting with my M2 in the wind, rain and snow. Good times though. Back to work today though :(

Umph. Still. It pays the bills.

Oh and I can't play the guitar on any instrument for jack. But I do like music.

Vicky
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Vicky, your shots for the book are stunning!!! Boy, Kodachrome really loves the 35/1.7 Ultron- very painterly colors and your sense of composition is very painterly, too. Gorgeous work!

How do I buy a copy?
 
Well, let me put it this way- when I told some of my female friends that I was thinking about joining a local camera club, most of them replied with something along the lines of, "Ew, isn't that just a bunch of lecherous old men looking for an excuse to ogle women?"
 
Pablito said:
With threads like this:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78782&page=1

No wonder RFF has trouble attracting female members. I'd like to know what some of the women think about this thread.
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TBH with you I ignore it, as it's only a thread on some forum really, I mean I see no worse from week to week. On the odd occassion the fact I carry an 'unusual' camera, i.e. one that's not a P&S and I'm a woman can make some guys give me an odd look and start suggesting what I should do in a condescending manner but I just take it on the shoulder and brush it off.

I think to get anywhere with photography you've got to be thick skinned whatever happens to be between your legs. Last year was a good example, shooting a whacky event with a Leica M2, just a 50mm lens and film, 160 ISO at that. Most made the odd joke which is fine, but there were a couple of press guys who were noticeably agitated by my presence at the event and were really quite rude. Personally I just take that as them being ass-holes rather than them being guys taking a pop at the woman. In any event, one of my photos made the local tourism brochure front cover for 2010 and theirs didn't, so :p

I'm quite a sensitive soul really but life has made me quite a tough cookie but in a nice way, treat me well and I'd not hurt a fly,give me jip and I'll just walk off and later in the evening bitch about it down the pub over a pint to let it out!

My experience of most male photographers though is such that their gender never even crosses my mind, as they don't get hung up on my gender either -- we're just people with cameras and like taking pictures.

Most of all though so long as my pictures judged on the merit of them being my photos rather than photos taken by a woman, then that's the main thing.

Vicky
 
maggieo said:
Vicky, your shots for the book are stunning!!! Boy, Kodachrome really loves the 35/1.7 Ultron- very painterly colors and your sense of composition is very painterly, too. Gorgeous work!

How do I buy a copy?
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Hey thanks! That's nice to hear. It's not yet finished but I'm aiming to have the project all sewn up this summer and ready to buy around August / September. I'll be sure to promote it here I'm sure.

I have at least two definite exhibitions for it in the pipeline, possibly 3 but they will be in the UK.

Keep an eye on my Flickr pages and you'll be sure to see when it's published. It'll have a lot more than just the landscapes, there's a heck of a lot of street stuff too, and a few other aces up my sleeves if I can pull the right strings...

Vicky
 
V, those photos are brilliant.

I, for one would like to see more female users. My better half tries to shoot with the M, but the focusing usually throws her off. She does have a great eye for composition though.:)
 
I know a lot of female photographers, several of whom are professionals. In general, there are a lot fewer women involved in photography, either as amateurs or pros, so you'll never have as many here as there are men. The ones I know would frankly be repulsed by the attitude that most of the men here have that women are pieces of meat. I know this will offend people, but EVERY male photographer I have ever known (in real life) who did nudes or photos of girls in bikinis did it so he could try to get models into bed, and many of them were quite successful. I know a guy in his 50's who is a professor at a small college here in Indiana who has slept with a number of his 18-120 yr old students and all of the models he has ever used (the models were not his girlfriends who he then asked to model, he hired them as models then got them into bed). Lecherous assholes like that piss me off because decent men like me have to answer for the bad rap they give all photographers. I'm tired of it.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
I know a lot of female photographers, several of whom are professionals. In general, there are a lot fewer women involved in photography, either as amateurs or pros, so you'll never have as many here as there are men. The ones I know would frankly be repulsed by the attitude that most of the men here have that women are pieces of meat. I know this will offend people, but EVERY male photographer I have ever known (in real life) who did nudes or photos of girls in bikinis did it so he could try to get models into bed, and many of them were quite successful. I know a guy in his 50's who is a professor at a small college here in Indiana who has slept with a number of his 18-120 yr old students and all of the models he has ever used (the models were not his girlfriends who he then asked to model, he hired them as models then got them into bed). Lecherous assholes like that piss me off because decent men like me have to answer for the bad rap they give all photographers. I'm tired of it.
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Chris,

What a distinct pleasure to see a post like yours! You sound like a photographer I would be delighted to meet one day. After reading your post, I do remember something that happened to me in college that smacked of just the behavior you are talking about. Years later I recognize what was happening, but back then I was so immature and clueless that I believed the photographer and the lines he told me. The photographer was a Professor at the University of Maryland, the school I attended and later graduated from. He invited me to his house, even introducing me to his wife, and told me that photographing me in various stages of undress was perfectly fine with his wife. He had a studio in his house and I willingly posed for him. Nothing happened beyond the posing for a few pictures (thank goodness!), but, when I think back, I realize he was one of those "lecherous assholes" to which you refer.

I have not been deterred from posting here and I think that RFF has a lot to offer. But if I run into any of the "Lecherous assholes" you refer to, then it'll go a long way towards making me hesitant to come back here.

Ellen
 
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