Leica LTM Thinking Of Going LTM...

[Keith]

I agree with my friend down under, they are wonderful looking cameras. I never had problems loading my fathers IIIa and never trimmed.

The concept of making you a more thoughtful photographer I kind of think that they do, but just from the technical side. When you compare what you have do to in order to get a good picture (exposure, shake, focus, etc.) to what is necessary on say an F100 there is a lot more. So most folks have to be more deliberate and thoughtful. That is not to say they will take better pictures. Just that they can not blow through a 10 frames in the time it takes you to read this sentence. Now you can add a MOOLY to a III but that is another story. The maturity is being able to find the picture in the scene and shoot only that. Not just keep shooting and hope you find in the proofs somewhere. Even when I was lugging a couple of motor driven cameras around I never was a machine gun spray and prayer. Strange habit to have after growing up with free film and chemicals.

B2 (;->

I need every bit of help I can get with my vision and I just find a screwmount viewfinder a little challenging at times ... but the actual process of loading, film adavance, shutter speed dial etc and the separate rangefinder window can be quite enjoyable.

I quite often put my 15mm Heliar on my 1936 black II and shoot it without a viewfinder and just visualise the field of view. Because the camera is so small and the Heliar has depth of field from a meter to infinity even at f4.5 it's very liberating.

 

[LeicaTom]

I always keep a kids safety scissors in my bag and precut like 3 rolls before I head out to assignments, I also have a Canon POP-UP spool in all my shooting cameras, it makes for even more of a pleasure and ease to load a IIIC.

My development lab expects to see really strange stuff when they see me coming in anyway, anything from naked PinUp models and Leica cut film canisters, they are well used to all of it by now

Tom

 

[Artorius]

I think I was misunderstood

I think I was misunderstood

I didn't mean to say it makes better pictures, but that, with all the decisions the photographer has to make ie: composure, light meter(or not), f/stop, shutter speed, focus, makes the pic a more technically correct photograph without the "shotgun" approach of Non-thinking automatic, focus, +/- EV, bracketed +/- f/stop. Even if you use the Sunny 16 Rule, you still have to THINK. That is what I was trying to say.
Sorry to imply better.