Never Used Color In Leica M3!

[Stu W]

I just realized. I've been a Leica nut for 1 1/2 years now and I've never used color film in it yet! For some reason It just seemed right to use b&w. I even did Christmas morning in b&w! Think I'll try color. Stu

 

[principe azul]

Same here with an M4 for, yes, about 1 1/2 year, too. Forced myself when I went to Copenhagen - buildings were too colourful not to.

Used to shoot a lot of colour slide, but once I'd started doing my own b/w dev it was more convenient and I just fell into it.

 

[lubitel]

go for it! I think there is nothing wrong about using a leica AND color film together.

 

[markinlondon]

I bought my M6TTL in april '04. since then I've put precisely 3 rolls of colour film through it. One roll of Sensia 100 to check the meter when I first got it and two rolls of Fuji NPH earlier this year just for a change. But then the Bessa R I had before that didn't see a lot of colour nor the SLR's I used before that. I think my reasons are the same as Principe's.

It's OK, Stu, you're not alone 🙂

Mark

 

[kvanderlaag]

I haven't shot color in my M2 yet, either. Mostly yes, because I develop my own B&W, and I don't like having to worry about what I'm shooting, and someone else processing it, and feeling dumb when I inevitably botch an exposure or ten.

 

[ywenz]

colour film is badass.

 

[RML]

Hey, I just realised I've never run any B&W film through my M2! Really! 🙂

 

[JoeFriday]

it's like that with certain cameras.. I have a Contax T that has never seen black and white film, and a Vivitar 35ES that has never seen color

my M3 sees a lot more color than b&w, but I've been known to rewind a half-used roll to switch from one to the other in the Leica

 

[JoeFriday]

oh wait.. I lied.. my Contax T did have a roll of b&w go through it recently.. and I was really disappointed because I had forgotten what I loaded in it and thought I was shooting color.. so I shot a bunch of very vibrant scenes.. while the shots generally were nice, it wasn't what I was hoping for

 

[wtl]

i just realized that i had some pancakes this morning. the world needs to know.

 

[payasam]

Eliminated, WTL? The hypo, that is.

 

[wtl]

Eliminated, WTL? The hypo, that is.

just did, here. all pancakes...

 

[StuartR]

I actually haven't either. I do shoot a lot of slide film, but I have only loaded the M3 with black and white since it doesn't have a meter and doesn't have the most accurate shutter. Color film goes in the metered M's.

 

[Magnus]

Having me think about all this I just realized I never have pancakes in the morning, somedays I will start off with ham and eggs, others with toast and vegimite with thinly sliced cucumbers, and others with ham and eggs, but pancakes ... never.

As for the film usage... I shoot color film in my M6ttl, B&W in my M4 and slides with my Nikon F6.... no exceptions made here.

Coming back to breakfast though, tomorrow the whole family will have pancakes and maple syrup which I have to purchase today.

My god, the changes in life that can occur by reading through a photo forum

 

[Andrew3511]

How odd. I looked at a set of B&W shots I took with the Olympus gear before I got the M2 & realised that it was the colour stuff where the difference with Leica optics really hit you. Have used B&W, colour neg and slide in the M2 along with the Weston Master V meter and accuracy of exposure isn't a problem. What's wrong with Leicas and colour film???

 

[Gid]

I put a couple of rolls of colour through my M6 the other week and was stupid enough to use the local mini lab - the negs were diabolical, so don't really know if the M6 is any good with colour 😡 maybe that was just a warning to return to B&W 🙂

 

[payasam]

Can't see what all the fuss is about. I've used my Canon reflexes, as well as the M3 I had, for both colour and B&W. Around 15 years ago I switched to using C41 (Fuji ASA 100) almost exclusively, and that is what now goes into my IIIc. Few places left here which do decent B&W work, I haven't the space to set up my enlarger and all the rest of it, and there's four colour labs at every crossroads. Print quality varies greatly. Treat the lousy ones as proofs and go to a good lab for the real stuff. If something has to be B&W, just scan a 4 by 6 or a 5 by 7 and let the Gimp do the hard work while you, er, handle the pancakes.

 

[ch1]

I just realized. I've been a Leica nut for 1 1/2 years now and I've never used color film in it yet! For some reason It just seemed right to use b&w. I even did Christmas morning in b&w! Think I'll try color. Stu

I got the urge to start shooting color film about a month or so ago. I guess it was the onset of Spring fever. All of a sudden B&W seemed so "down".

Finally shot out the last roll of B&W that was in my "city" F3 yesterday. No "old film" still sitting in any of the gear.

I will shoot B&W for the benefit performance I'm going to Sunday - but other than that - it's color for me now until after the autumn leaves fall. 😎

 

[SDK]

I only seem to shoot B&W in the winter, and then not all the time. I love a good snow picture in monochrome. I probably shoot 99% color in my Leicas. But then I have my own little color darkroom, and the B&W darkroom at work needs fixing up before I can use it again.