Leica Did I drink the Leica Kool-aid...

LOL that was my first thought too Olli! :drinks:

Good to hear you are enjoying your Leica Amin ... it's only now the penny has finally dropped here why you are so interested in starting a Leica forum. Have you shared any images from your Leica yet? I don't think I've seen any from you.
 
I miss my Leicas. Every time I start holding them, I look at the costs of the Lenses and I slowly set the camera down. Waiting for a run-down of the M6.

Gary
 
Question: "Did I drink the Leica Kool-aid?"

Answer: Yes. :tongue:

But there is nothing inherently wrong with that. I shot with an old M-series on loan from a family member in the 90s and it was a joy to use ... I've just never found a desire to spend that kind of money on Leica gear.

The closest thing to a Leica I have now is my Leica-branded 25mm f/1.4 Panasonic lens for my m4/3 gear or my Fujifilm X10 Leica parody:
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On a side note, I've found the Pentax K-01 with Pentax Limited primes to remind me a little of the old days when I shot with that Leica ... in the sense that there's no mirror slap and great primes paired with a solid-feeling metal body. But that's absolutely as far as I'd go comparing "the brick" to a Leica. ;)
 
On a side note, I've found the Pentax K-01 with Pentax Limited primes to remind me a little of the old days when I shot with that Leica ... in the sense that there's no mirror slap and great primes paired with a solid-feeling metal body. But that's absolutely as far as I'd go comparing "the brick" to a Leica. ;)

Image quality with the Limiteds isn't far off, either.
 
So where is the photos? :) Which lenses are you using? How is M6 compared to digital M's or other mirrorless cameras?
 
If it's Scotch it's whisky. I'm a member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. We care about these things:)

Darn, with as much Scotch whisky as I've been drinking over the years, I really should have spelled that one right :redface:.
 
I lament the fact that my M6 is now in the hands of another lover; who caresses her taught body in the way I used to do. I loved her.....but, like my wife she was expensive to run (wife cooks real good...she stay. Leica no cook, Leica go!)

I wanted to use it like I use digital, but film costs mount up. No room to develop in my small apartment. It was costing nigh on 20 quid to buy film and have developed nicely with CD and prints.

Boo hoo, I miss her!
 
So where is the photos? :) Which lenses are you using? How is M6 compared to digital M's or other mirrorless cameras?

I'm still only 10 shots into my first roll of film, and most of those are my kids sitting on the couch :D. Still I feel like I'm on a very slippery slope with this whole Leica thing. I keep trying to tell myself that the whole manual focus thing is a perfect fit for film (working slow), and that my one lens (Zeiss ZM 35/2 Biogon) is all I need. So far that's working.
 
I wanted to use it like I use digital, but film costs mount up. No room to develop in my small apartment. It was costing nigh on 20 quid to buy film and have developed nicely with CD and prints.

I have low standards: There are some cheap films that I like (eg Superia 400), C41 B&W looks perfectly great to me (Ilford XP2), and I think Costco does a bang up job developing and scanning to CD for cheap. Definitely prices still add up though!
 
Beautiful; interesting that he decided to "back up grade" to the M3.

He wanted the M3 all along. I talked him into an M6 because I thought it would be easier to find one in good working order and that it would be a drag to work with a separate light meter. I should have known better and encouraged him to get what he knew he wanted! I thought I'd miss aperture-priority auto exposure with the M6 (having previously owned a Bessa R3A and Zeiss Ikon ZM), but I don't, or at least not much.
 
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