#Barnack Leica

[tokyo-camera-style]

Yanaka, Tokyo

Leica Ⅲg + Summicron 50mm F2 with Leitz-Wetzlar shutter release, Voigtlander double-shoe adapter, 50mm external finder and VC Meter II

[somekindofablog]

cafe

📸: leica iiif, summitar 5cm

🎞️: kodak kodacolor 200

[johnnymartyr]

A Collection of my Petapixel Articles

by Johnny Martyr I take some shit from other film photography bloggers for writing for Petapixel. The consensus is that we want to keep film photography blogs within our community. And I can respect that but I also like the idea of letting the rest of the photographic world know that film is still alive and well by interjecting topics that aren’t often in the mainstream news. One of the things I…

[mpestada]

Cadaqués, agost 2024 (Kokak Vision3 - Leica IIb)

[ainnayp]

solitude

[camerafilia]

[hisafoto]

「KIRYU」

[davetada]

Mary

Los Angeles, CA

[karingottschalk]

Fujifilm & Leica Expert User Take Kayo Tries Out Fujifilm X-T5 With Fujinon XF 30mm f/2.8 R LM WR Macro For Street Photography & Likes It

Fujifilm & Leica Expert User Take Kayo Tries Out Fujifilm X-T5 With Fujinon XF 30mm f/2.8 R LM WR Macro For Street Photography & Likes It

[minscheon]

Ordinary Cut.

                    Leica IIIc / Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:8 f=2.8cm / APX400 / Xtol Dev 2019. 6. 15. 충무로. 서울.

[thephoblographer]

DOCKS Collective Took Photos of Community Spirit in Germany

Volunteers are helping to rebuild German communities devastated by floods

“Sometimes we just put the camera aside and listened,” says Maximilian Mann about the few times interaction with flood-affected community members took preference over taking photos. He’s a member of the DOCKS Collective, a team of five young German documentary photographers founded in 2018. The group documented the destruction caused by unusual rain and flooding across some parts of Germany in…

[tokyo-camera-style]

Place M, Shinjuku

Pre-war Barnack Leica IIIa with nickel-plated 50mm f3.5 Elmar lens and VIDOM finder

Photographer: Huiwen Jiang / instagram

[somekindofablog]

Sta. Ana, Cagayan

📸: leica iiif, summitar 5cm

🎞️: kodak kodacolor 200

[johnnymartyr]

The Most Hated Lens Hood for Leica Summitar & Summicron Is Also The Best

by Johnny Martyr Like many Barnack Leica shooters, I picked up a SOOPD/SOOFM “barndoor” lens hood for my Summitar simply because it was cheap and said “Leitz” on it. I’d never handled one in person and bought it online from Tamarkin.com without much consideration. After attaching it to my lens, however, all I could do was consider. And reconsider. What a weird ass lens hood! It looks more like…

[bromodideuterio]

A Week With a Leica

Last week I purchased my first Leica camera, which is something I swore that I would never do. To me, Leica is the Rolex of the camera world. Yes, they’re great cameras, but they’re overpriced and overhyped for something that a much cheaper piece of kit can do equally well. Besides, the gear doesn’t make the photographer. However, I have always had a soft spot for the Barnack models.

Lo and behold, a Leica IIIf, fully serviced and equipped with a 5cm Summicron, stumbles its way into my life. I got a pretty good deal on it. I won’t say specifically how much I spent, but let’s just say it was more along the lines of Canon money.

After putting a few rolls through the camera, I have very few complaints about the shooting process. The only things that come to mind are that to load the film, it’s recommended you cut your film leader into a taper (carry some scissors), there is no in-body light meter, and the film advance/rewind is less than optimal when compared to its SLR contemporaries.

Aside from those minor issues, this camera is a dream to shoot with. The collapsible lens makes it extremely compact. The build quality is incredibly robust. Obviously the lens is razor sharp, it’s a Leica. Additionally, it doesn’t have the big red dot on the front, so it’s less likely to be stolen.

After shooting with this camera for a little while, I can already tell that it will be a permanent feature of my collection. I get it now. I understand the hype. I’m not prepared to pay the Leica tax for something like an M6, nor do I have any desire to. The M cameras are fantastic, don’t get me wrong. But the Barnack cameras are iconic, cementing Leica as the manufacturer with the reputation they have today. Sure, shooting a IIIf is slow. But film is expensive, and we can all benefit from slowing down a bit, can’t we?

[schibborasso]

Liliput (ur-leica) by Oskar Barnack, 1914