“Leica Photography” Is Dead. Leica Killed It.
Read it. My response to the article, nothing we don't already know here at UHH. We now have more options. Just because one can shoot super sharp & technique Ly correct, doesn't mean they have to. Wonder what Ansel A. would be doing with processing today with the options we have. I watch a fair amount of vids from a number of Leica channels & they do marketing like any other camera manufacture. Try & sell the product to the customer. It is a different time as far as film goes. If Leica didn't change with the times they might be out of bizz rite now & if not, much smaller in size & production. Leica still offers the new M6 film camera that I assume works with it's new lenses. Lenses? The new ones render much more clearly if one wants to & most likely to please the digital mass viewers. Leica owners choice. Leica still claims to have one of the easiest/simplest menu layouts out there only topped by HASSY (according to Hue, Three Blind Men & an Elephant you Tube channel). I get what the author is saying about the monochrome series & the Silver Effects software. Never used it or any other Leica for that matter to judge & who am to anyway? Who is the author, credible? There is a NY City photographer here at UHH & I THINK he uses a Leica. Produces some very nice photos & while most of it is the photographer, his photos & the way light is shown has me believing it has something to do with the optics, sensor & processor also. I would bet a six pack of Sam Adams Summer Ale that he doesn't do much to the files before posting them here if I knew him personally.
Happy holidays, Happy shooting & than you for the link.
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Read it. My response to the article, nothing we don't already know here at UHH. We now have more options. Just because one can shoot super sharp & technique Ly correct, doesn't mean they have to. Wonder what Ansel A. would be doing with processing today with the options we have. I watch a fair amount of vids from a number of Leica channels & they do marketing like any other camera manufacture. Try & sell the product to the customer. It is a different time as far as film goes. If Leica didn't change with the times they might be out of bizz rite now & if not, much smaller in size & production. Leica still offers the new M6 film camera that I assume works with it's new lenses. Lenses? The new ones render much more clearly if one wants to & most likely to please the digital mass viewers. Leica owners choice. Leica still claims to have one of the easiest/simplest menu layouts out there only topped by HASSY (according to Hue, Three Blind Men & an Elephant you Tube channel). I get what the author is saying about the monochrome series & the Silver Effects software. Never used it or any other Leica for that matter to judge & who am to anyway? Who is the author, credible? There is a NY City photographer here at UHH & I THINK he uses a Leica. Produces some very nice photos & while most of it is the photographer, his photos & the way light is shown has me believing it has something to do with the optics, sensor & processor also. I would bet a six pack of Sam Adams Summer Ale that he doesn't do much to the files before posting them here if I knew him personally.
Happy holidays, Happy shooting & than you for the link.
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PS, wish Nikon's manual .95 50mm Noct lens was as small as Leica's Noct lens !!!
I never liked HCB images.
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