And if that rings true to you, I suppose that having a light meter was an unexpected surprise. You don’t have to be burdened anymore with having to remember the Sunny 16 Rule, when shooting with contemporary M body rangefinders.īut when you think about it, how has the Leica range of rangefinders actually improved? Can you really say that the M7 is a stark improvement from the M6 or the M4 or even the M3? I suppose if you’ve lived your entire life under a rock, never having focused and composed through the lens, incremental improvement of faster shutter speed from 1/1000s to 1/2000s is a big deal. The M has come a long way, from its humble beginnings without a proper light meter. Thing is, rangefinder technology really hasn’t improved from the M3 – assuming you could call rangefinder a technology at all. But we few, we happy few, we band of brothers (and sisters) maintained our loyalty, upgrading generation after generation, edition after edition, to the next newer and better M body iteration of rangefinder technology. Photography moved on from rangefinder photography, to through-the-lens, to autofocusing. And it didn’t matter to us that the times are a changing. The point is, we practitioner of Leica rangefinder photography are a loyal bunch. I can go all day with my bad adaptation of famous popular clichés. You would have to pry it out of my cold dead hands, as if it were a rifle clinging onto Charlton Heston. In fact, nothing was going to separate me from my M. Nothing was going to get in between me and my Leica rangefinder, to adapt a quote from a young Brooke Shields in her Calvin’s. Despite the world moving towards better focusing systems, my resolve was unshakable. The thing is, I too at one time felt this passionately about my Leica M body rangefinders. Makes you wonder why any Leica shooter would still hang onto their Leica rangefinders. And it has to do with how amazing the Leica SL is. Check out his other articles, also available on his website. It is written as a parody from the perspective of a Leica SL photographer, regarding the superiority of the SL system over the M system. This article is by Horatio Tan ( Website| Instagram| Facebook).
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