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
The reason I am a Leica owner is because of my wife.
She's a pro photog and I went with her to the original Ken Hansen many moons ago went she bought an M6 and a 35, 50 and 90.
They were a gift from her father.
One day she surprised me with a nice Leica CL with a working meter(!) that I used in our early years.
When we had our first child, I took out her M6 and became the family photographer.
She eventually realized it was hers and demanded it back.
This was in the the early days of ebay and I went online and bought my own but continued to use her lenses.
I had to surrender the 35cron, but she let me keep the 1960's 50 rigid cron.
I had it on my M8 yesterday (also a gift from my wife and two daughters for a big birthday) photographing my girls.
So, if it weren't for the women in my life, I would not have a Leica.
 

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Chriscrawfordphoto said:
The lack of women has nothing to do with women not having time for forums. They have plenty of time, no less than men do. The fact is, photography as a form of art and as a hobby is not attractive to women. I have been a professional artist for nearly 15 years, some of which were spent in Santa Fe, a major center for art. There simply are few female professional photographers or artists whose medium is photography.

There are plenty of women involved in painting, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking (etching, lithography, etc.). Why so few in photography when there are so many female artists in other media? I don't know. It has nothing to do with time though. I have done painting, etching, lithography, ceramics, and sculpture and all of them are more time consuming than photography. As with anything, those who want to do something bad enough will find the time. Women find the time to do every form of art in large numbers, except photography.
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Well, what I understood here is that to be a professional photographer you have to do only(!) and mainly photography or at least more than any other art :eek:
I hope I've understood it wrongly...
I disagree on that there are very little pro photographers women out there too.

Photography as an art is more forgiving than any (or almost any) other art. I mean you don't have to shoot the s&%$ out of your camera(s) everyday and to dedicate your entire life to it in order to make great pictures. This could be the reason that many people have different medium than photography and still ARE professional photographers (because they got payed for the photo work they do).
Regards,
b.
 
wentropy said:
wow kind of sad that there are so few of us ladies who shoot leica....
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It won't be quite as few as visible here. Both gear hobbies and tech forums are male dominated - bragging about gear on forums essentially is male squared, and won't attract that many female photographers. The proportion of females among professionals is much higher - but they'll hang out elsewhere and may be talking pictures rather than gear.
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
I think she got confused between the M4 and the M4-2 (which has a bad rep.). Personally, having had and poured money into a couple of M4 bodies to get them working right, and having seen a lot of others that needed service (actually never seen an M2 or M4 that worked right that was for sale, save the two I sold after getting them worked on), I can say they're simply too old.
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Respectful question here: What do you mean by "too old"? The M2 and all incarnations of the M4 are of more recent manufacture than the M3. I'm not Leica expert, but it seems that the M3 has the best rep of those three types, and is generally more sought after. Many of them sold are in working condition, and not in need of a CLA (epecially if sold by one of the Leica repair-gods :) ).

Just trying to understand where you were coming from about the "too old" comment. My Korona 8x20 is a lot older, and working fine. :D
 
loquax ludens said:
Respectful question here: What do you mean by "too old"? The M2 and all incarnations of the M4 are of more recent manufacture than the M3. I'm not Leica expert, but it seems that the M3 has the best rep of those three types, and is generally more sought after. Many of them sold are in working condition, and not in need of a CLA (epecially if sold by one of the Leica repair-gods :) ).

Just trying to understand where you were coming from about the "too old" comment. My Korona 8x20 is a lot older, and working fine. :D
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I agree. my M2 and M4 (and the MDa too) have been working perfectly from the day I bought them, only the M4 needed a simple CLA after 2-3 years (and after a couple of knocks here and there). M2s and M4s work just as fine as M3s. or other Ms. I've never seen an M2 with circuitry issues though.
you can buy defective specimens of any camera.
 
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Re: Sevo's comment about tech forums being dominated by males. That is undoubtedly the case, with very few exceptions. One that stands out for me is Sophia in the CZ rifle section of rimfirecentral.com. You can't get much more technical than a gun forum and Sophia is the person you go to for help (obviously I have a CZ 22 calibre rifle).
 
The question, really, should be: How many female leica m users here who spend time on Internet forums. That accounts for the very small numbers. In my experience, women don't spend nearly as much time on forums like this as gear-oriented men. Women usually have better things to do, like shooting pictures. While we sit here arguing over which lens is best for shooting dolphins underwater at night.
 
wow, it has been a year since this thread started:) glad to know there are at least 38 female leica users here! haha. But now i wonder who are the other 37 females. hmm..
 
Well, I shoot a Leica M (my late dad's m3 -- he bought it to take pictures of *me* when I was born) and I'm female.

For fun I only use early 60's lenses on it. :)

I've been on tech forums (mostly computer-oriented) for over 10 years and before that some of the old Compuserve forums. I'm used to being one of very few women around, this is why I still use just my initials -- an old habit from when our threads or requests for help were not always treated so swell :rolleyes:

Never a problem here!
 
While traveling with my sister she commented that if she ever needs a new guy again she will have to get a Leica. Its a great "Guy Magnet" she said ;-)
 
JCT said:
Well, I shoot a Leica M (my late dad's m3 -- he bought it to take pictures of *me* when I was born) and I'm female.

For fun I only use early 60's lenses on it. :)

I've been on tech forums (mostly computer-oriented) for over 10 years and before that some of the old Compuserve forums. I'm used to being one of very few women around, this is why I still use just my initials -- an old habit from when our threads or requests for help were not always treated so swell :rolleyes:

Never a problem here!
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I enjoy reading such "in the family" stories.
 
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