5 Tips on How to Get the Most out of Your Leica Rangefinder
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- Leica Society International proudly presents our “How To” video series with Stefan Daniel. In this series, we sit down with experts in Leica Camera buying, collecting, shooting, editing, and more! We ask them to share their best tips and tricks. Watch and learn how to elevate your photography and take it to the next level.
Stefan Daniel is the Global Director of Business Unit Photo for Leica Camera AG and has been with the company for over 30 years. Here he sits down and shares his top five tips for getting the most out of your Leica rangefinder, which includes making sure to preset your camera.
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Interviewed & Produced by:
Helen Todd at Sociality Squared
Shot by: Ed Tan
Edited by: Erik Hogan
Music by: Akashic Records
Shot on: Leica SL (Typ 601)
I have just purchased a second hand M240 with a summicron 50 mm lens. After years with my (still used) DSLR I am rediscovering the joy of photography and learning to take photographs in an (almost) analogue way. My ambition is to shoot as much as possible without the screen and have the sense of anticipation I used to get whilst waiting to develop my film camera shots
Tip 5. The Leica M - D is a great idea, gutsy for a camera company to make, fantastic for brewing passion. Thank you Leica. I have one on order.
I have met this gentleman in Wetzlar! Such a nice person and such devotion and passion for Leica.
Thank You, very helpful for newbies like me. Love my d-lux 109 from the first look. Got it just 2 weeks ago
Glad you enjoyed the video! If you have any questions about you D-Lux or Leica Camera in general, we have an Ask An Expert member benefit where you can pick our brains: lhsa.org/ask-the-expert/#. Feel free to reach out with any questions through our website, Facebook, Instagram, email, or Twitter. We'd love to see your photos and let us know if you need anything! ~Kristy
Remember to remove the lens cap before you snap or your camera will work on noise reduction for what appears to be ages! :)
Totally)) or you ll just waste film
brilliant video,thanks for great advice
Just had my first Leica rangefinder delivered having had the Q for many years. Of course, it is a very different way of shooting. But this was so helpful.
Glad to hear that!
🔴Great video, during street photography, I’ll always preset a hyperfocal range so I can just simply point and click without looking into the viewfinder!
Thanks for reaching out and glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video. Great tips. Thanks for posting!
You're very welcome! Great to hear you enjoyed it!
Some great advise and spot with my MP240 experience. It might be a cliche but now being the proud owner of this amazing camera I now observe and shoot in a very different way. The image quality is to die for. Awesome.
We love to hear it.
Thank you!)
Thank you!
just got my M-P typ240 recently!
love it. thank you very much for the tips!
Congrats on your M-P! You're very welcome on the tips! You'll have to share your photos with us too!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUCH A WARM COMMENT!
You're very welcome! That's what the Leica Society is all about - supporting one another on our Leica journies :) -Helen
Really good tips. Thank you!
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed the video!
A firm grasp of the obvious is always a good thing.
I got 2 m3s (one for me and one for my wife who I will teach film photography). We both only really care for 50mm. We have practiced with sony a7 bodies for the last few years. We just got an m8 for b&w. An m10 in the future? Perhaps. Good video
Thank you for the video
Great to read that you enjoyed it!
Great video, you speak very clear ! Very intresting Tips, even for a new Leica Q owner ! This is the first video of the Leica Society I saw (very sorry), I subscribed immediately. Please do nor forget the Leica Q users, they are also waiting for some Tips !
Greetz, Roger, Antwerp.
Hi Roger, thanks for reaching out and subscribing to our channel! Glad you enjoyed the video and we'll keep in mind your suggestion for Leica Q tips.
excellent video!
Glad you enjoyed it, Albert!
No.5 is a big pet peeve of mine. I'm considering the M-D for this very reason.
The temptation is real, and a reason to love the classics and the M-D!
Well after much consideration between it and the M-P I decided on the M-D and picked one up yesterday at the Leica Store SF! It seems to fit right in with my M3, M2, and M6 Classic especially the part about not really knowing what you have until you get home. Today will be my first day out with it!
Congrats on your new Leica! You'll have to share some images you take with it...once you get back to your computer! Also, you qualify for one year of free membership to the Leica Society if you're not a member yet: lhsa.org/jointheleicasociety/ Happy shooting! -Helen
Thanks very much! Here are some shots from the new camera!
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Thanks for sharing! Feel free to upload on Instagram using #LeicaSociety or to our Facebook page: facebook.com/leica.society/.
Lighning fast shipping. Excellent product very pleased
who to get better tipps from? haha
great video!
Great advice, thanks for sharing!
The famous saying “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” was Robert Capa telling us to physically get closer - to become more involved and intimate with our subjects.
You're welcome. Happy to see you found the video useful!
Universal. !!!
Sometimes I guess how far away the subject is not that great sometimes it does not work other times I pre focus by focusing on something about the same distance away if possible that works well.
clean your viewpiece, be on standby, preset, dare to approach, get the shot in a FRACTION of a second
Film Leica cameras are amazing, love my m3s and my m6s. That being said this has to do with more on how to take photographs in general and not anything about Leica specifically.
Right and wrong.
When I shoot with my M 262, I don't feel the same as when I shoot with my X-10S. Thus, I don't look around me the same way, and consecutively, I don't take the same pictures.
@@marc6652 use an iPhone. No one will notice you at all, that’s the common device
@@nickfanzo Why do you take pictures ? Just to go back home with some images to save on your computer ? Not me.
The journey is very often more important than the destination.
@@marc6652 you’re missing the point. When you use a camera, people notice you. When you use a phone, it is socially accepted. Cameras are not accepted as a whole like they were 60 years ago. Back then a camera was a way to take your photos, professional or casual, or family shots. People didn’t care to see a camera like they do now, because every laymen had one for their own photos; now people have phones for that, hence phones are more accepted socially in public.
Also some amazing photojournalism was shot on an iPhone. Libyan sugar for example.
In the end we use the tools we want to use, out of our own psychological impression, not because one is better than the other. And consumerism and psychological selling methods help control to that.
@@nickfanzo You're missing the point.
My pleasure is not to be the more efficient, but to maximize my pleasure when shooting. And that's not with a smartphone. That's with a M camera.
Is it so hard to understand ?
This is why Leica MD without screen. 🙂
wow that was kinda like watching a journeyman carpenter give a lecture on the proper use of a hammer ie. hit the nail and not the fingers, keep your hammer clean, avoid distractions while hitting the nail on the head, don't over extend the distance between the nail and the hammer and have a first aid kit nearby should you fail on any of the aforementioned tips.
Tip #6 their prices are rising this year 10-20%
Sniff it through the cork , baby.
'This will you more battery'
Laughing the leica ii
And dont expect to get what you perfectly aligned in the view finder. Thats what slr is for.
looks like Dmitry Medvedev
I disagree with Mr. Daniel's advice to keep your M10 turned ON all the time. If I'm shooting five shots of the same subject, I'll keep my M10 ON for all five shots. After that, I'll shut it off. I'll admit, however, that I do usually have my Leica EVF attached. The EVF WILL drain your battery if you're not careful. Having your M10's battery die unexpectedly is a terrible thing.
Do Leica shooters really need such tips?
Yes some times we like to share tips no harm done is it ??
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Tips for the rich
so you waste my time becouse you want to do what ? Tell me obwious thinks? I can give you 5 tips from me....
1- find good service - this is not brand new vcamera and everything can happend
2. Try use it at liest once a week becouse old camera need move
3. Find some good lens for you... there is reall so much good lens that you can buy for less than 400$ with better quality than leica lens really.....
4. learn how to develop your film by yourself it will be cheeper
5. Leica is for street photo not for pro user.... it was for pro user b4 early 80's (yeah until Nikon make mirror camera for pro users not for princess)
i waste my time to write this like you did by making this video