LEICA M7 WINDOWS
LEICA M7 HOW TO
A look that I've found after reading my dear film friend Johnny Patience's thoughts on how to meter for 35mm b&w film. A combination that gives me good conditions to achieve the look I want. I will use the M7 only with Tri-X and my silver Summicron 50mm f2. The red Leica logo was exchanged to a black logo and I love that. The Leica M7 can be used without batteries at 1/60th & 1/125th so I'm fine with that. They are supposed to last 70 rolls so, no biggie. Time to start shooting :) I'm totally fine about batteries etc. So when an great offer came by for this beautiful M7 I just decided that I was done looking. Leicas in Sweden are actually cheaper than in other countries that I have looked (online).
LEICA M7 MANUAL
And guess what! It works even in manual ) I could just shoot it manually when I feel like it.
I know myself and sometimes I need to nail the shot (of my kids) or sometimes I'm just lazy, not having my Sekonic light meter with me. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt that I wanted both the internal meter and the aperture priority. It has aperture priority, something I wasn't looking for in a film Leica M. But after some intensive research online (because you really can't rent cameras in Gothenburg, as in for example the US) I started reading up on the Leica M7. The M6 TTL does that and I missed a couple of nice deals on those. The M6 has always seemed like a great camera and after just getting the Leica M (240), I wanted an film Leica with dials that operates more or less in the same way.
It's just too new (and probably too good) to be found on Ebay etc.
Stopped when I couldn't find any used ones out there. I also figured that I could benefit from using another magnification. I have a weak spot for black Leicas but a black M3 is just out of my budget (also a black M2). I was surprised to get more keepers than using a slr. I also loved using a rangefinder for focusing. A little hard sometimes seeing the entire frame using my glasses, but otherwise a really nice shooting experience. Mostly for the 0.95 vf, that I thought would be great to use with my Summicron 50mm f2. The organic look that it gives is something I found that I just could not replicate, using a digital camera. I started my 35mm film journey with the Leica M3. After have tried b&w film photography, I just can't go back to shooting digital b&w.