Sensors and the dreaded dust!
The view through the Visible Dust loupe. Note how the 6 led bulbs focus in the centre. It’s been a couple of years now since I bought a Leica M9…
21mm 1.4 Leica Summilux lens review
Leica M9 21mm Summilux f1.4 Asph lens wide open at f1.4 for 10 secs 160 ISO. Pin sharp from 5 metres to infinity. This is one spectacular lens. (click on…
Tilt Shift effects. An experiment
Recently I discovered an Australian photographer called Keith Lutit. He makes little time lapse films using a tilt shift lens. Have a look for yourself, it’s mesmerising. It got me…
Leica M9 and Visoflex III
Leica M9, Visoflex III, Elmar 50mm Dragonfly on a basil plant. The Visoflex was a device manufactured by Leica almost 50 years ago. It enabled their rangefinder cameras to be…
Leica M9 emergency battery option
What was fabulous about the film M Leicas was that they could work even if they had no batteries. You might lose the light meter but you could still take…
Leica M9 for Lefties
This idea came from watching my left handed friend use my M9. He placed the whole camera over his face as if the camera was an SLR. This is not…
Leica M9 reconsidered
Please note that this post was written in July 2010 long before Leica launched the M9-P Sorry for any confusion! It was a post card that I received from an…
Summarit f2.5 50mm Leica Lens review
Leica M9 Summarit f2.5 50mm 160 ISO f2.5 @ 4000 sec When I first got my M9 I needed a lens for it. Having already spent far too much buying…
Michelin Pilot Power tyre review
Leica M9, Voigtlander f4 21mm 160 ISO Michelin Pilot Power Before buying some new tyres for my cousin’s Ducati Monster M900 he’d been kind enough to lend me, I did…