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Nice tips for night street photography!! My question 🙋 is can i use a micro four thirds like a Olympus EM 10 Mk3 with a 25mm 1.8? I just watched your 50mm video !!

Brilliant explanation and very inspiring - I’m going to go to 50 mm for next 6 months and will update you if my frustration grew or faded 😅.

If you use a 50 mm lens for your photos, everything in the picture is in its place. That's why this lens is so important.

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Interesting, thank you for sharing your thoughts about your photo 👍

Morton : the picture of the loving parents and child is charming , this is the gift of sharing our vision and sharing the love of humanity , Wealth and possessions are fine but the most delightful treasure is sharing Love and in Photography we are able to express our love through our shared vision. MERRY CHRISTMAS Morton . Blessings ~

Thanks! This was well worth setting my alarm, to awaken at 1:00 AM in the morning.

i wanted an m9 but came across so many with sensor corrosion. Got an m8. Had sensor issues so sent it back. Eventually went for an MP M240 and couldnt be happier. Glad thinsg didnt work out for me with th e8 and 9. All of them are awesome though

You still have the possibility to make panoramas by combining several images when you cannot frame the entire landscape.

Magnificent! Really study images! If you scroll thru images on phone, give up! I cannot look at many images! I set a limit! Excellent advice. NB. I rememberAll the details of a Film Exposure! The time, the place, feelings, sometimes the camera! Bravo!

Very interesting. Taught me to not only look at a photo but to really SEE a photo. Thank you

Very nice review of this camera. I have been fortunate to obtain a M240 and feel very much the same about it. I have newer Leica cameras and enjoy them but the. experience of using a rangefinder is very enjoyable and the images are wonderful. It’s always time well spent using it.

I have a hard time with composition 😮

Interesting discussion. I've recently become interesting in doing 50mm portraits with natural light. I always like the look of natural light better than when I try and add a flash. I like that idea of kind of accepting "what's there" and working with it, rather than trying to manipulate it too much. A different type of creative approach that appeals to my sensibility. Thanks for sharing this video.

i like your sennheiser mic!

Tak for en meget informativ video og et velfortjent like herfra 👍

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Enig. Er heller ikke fan af kunstigt lys.

Nice video with a lot of useful information. Thanks

Verry well explained, thank you, Morten! One question: do you sometimes use a handheld exposure meter to check the light contitions on the subject? As a convinced M9 user I'm always interested in your videos and explanations. Best wishes from Germany!

No one will know what images we missed by not using a zoom lens.

Recently downsizing my kit to two Q3's and it was great to hear your perspectives. You inspire me and I did just subscribe and like. I also remember when I first started 50+ years ago and had only two lenses. 50 and 35! I look forward to hearing more from you. Thank you.

I totally agree that it's a great advantage to know your gear - it's the sinking feeling i get every time i'm moved to reach for my Fisheye. What i don't agree with is the hackneyed disparagement of zooms. There's a caricature that gets set up - a strawman argument - and the tired old phrase 'zoom with your feet' gets trotted out. Street is one genre of photography i don't do much of... but if everyone who does it is shooting wide or standard, why do i want to take their photos? I want to take something different - The Orthodoxy is the enemy of creativity - maybe a tele will give a different but worthy insight into alienation, and much of the rest that makes up the human condition too? I shoot concerts - i use a mix of primes and zooms, and i move around so much that i'm dripping sweat after ten minutes. Zooms have an advantage at times in that they permit you to get a framing that would be impossible in a crowded space with a prime... and that framing can be a great image (which is kind of what we're there for). They're also great when you want to get, efficiently, an intimate profile of each of the musicians across the width of a twenty metre stage - nobody is carrying enough primes to get those shots, even when there is time. I also shoot a lot of landscape, coastal and rainforest - and the old 'zoom with your feet' is asinine in these contexts... it's often clearly dangerous or physically impossible (or am i just being 'lazy'?). But yes... get to know your gear intimately. I do have a favourite lens - one that i'd like to use for every image. It's a big and heavy 150mm f/2 and it's results are gorgeous. Unfortunately, the world and the photographic opportunities it presents don't care about my personal predilections - the result is that i have to have and use the right tool for the specific job, even if it is that bloody Fisheye. Loved your images, btw. Cheers.

Thanks!

I love your black and whites so much!

Thanks!

Very good shot. 📷🇮🇹

I realize that as a rangefinder user for “street photography”, a 50mm is too intimate for me. However, I wouldn’t neglect it completely as it is convenient to have for a specific need. I find that a 35mm is well-balanced, and if I’m really in a pinch, I manually zoom in on my subject (if possible) with my feet

Good video about an important topic in photography 👍.

I recently picked up a beautiful M9-P and it's my most used camera.

Rigtigt godt. Er sikker på at det giver god mening for mange. Det kunne være fedt hvis du kunne vise forskellige 50mm linser og deres karekter. Her tænker jeg Voigtlânder vs 7Artisans og org. Leica.

Excellent advice

Thank you so much for the advices! I planned to concentrate on Montmartre, but will now go for the Latin Quarter. But French Guy Theo told Montmartre is good on Mondays, if you watched his video? We'll land in Paris next summer, spend a couple of days there, then take the high speed train to Bordeaux and spend 3 weeks in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, before we go back to Paris. Then we go to the fantastic island of Senja, to photograph down this island in the aurora light, as a spectacular good bye to to Norway, before we settle in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. I'll just bring my new Sigma 50 mm f2.0 on our trip.

Do you follow Mitchell Kanashkevich and his current series on street photography in India? There are really strong and interesting characters!

The human eye sees from 15 to 150 mm, but in average we have a prime area of 43 mm. That mean some people see in 35 mm and some in 65 mm as their standard angle of view, 43 mm is just the average for all humans.

Are churches public buildings?

I love my M9, too. And I'm conviced like you that it is still a valid great camera after more than 15 years. The colour and b/w JPEGs straight out of the camera are just beautiful due to the CCD sensor. Thank you for your video.

What a 50mm equivalent for a APC camera?

A side note for those who are new.When Mr. Morten explains how the camera sets frame lines inside range finder, 6:55 into the video, by reading 6-bit coding from the lens, that's actually not the case. The frame lines are mechanically set, so every lens with its focal length has a slightly different mount in part where it comes into contact with frame lines selector which is where the lever on the side is. It sets this lever mechanism to the position so it shows correct frame lines. So having a lens without 6-bit coding will still give you the correct frame lines. 6-bit coding is used for setting the correct lens for software image corrections and exif, so when you load your photo in some of photo the editing programs there will be embedded information inside the file which lens was used. That's what 6-bit encoding is for, documenting info about the lens used to photograph, because you might want to use presets for distortion or colour aberration correction. Of course, you can set this manually inside menu.

I use the 50mm mostly! I dislike 35mm due to distortions.. I use 35 mm, more and more, as need to be close, with way too many folks everywhere.. Great Video.

Nice images! Thanks for this video. FYI your voice is only on the left channel, while your music is on both. You might want to pan your voice to both channels for future videos.

Wow, I love 50mm too ❤

My favorite lens for landscape & Street Zeiss Loxia 35 & Sony 35GM 1.4 Zeiss Loxia 50 & Sony 50GM 1.2

Ahh I am first ; and I love 50mm lens I have the Canon 50mm in 0.95 / 1.2 / 1.4 / and Voightlander Cosina brass and Chrome 1.5 Nokton / and LLL 50mm 1.2 " 1966 " # 615 black painted brass ... Yeah , I am so fond of this focal length. ❤

Many thanks for this great tribute to a modern classic. Sad about the sensor corrosion issue but apart from that an incredible piece of equipment. Magic.

So true.

You and another Dane are quite fond of the M9. I have one, too, Leica replacement sensor and circuit board. I have some other nice cameras but the M9 has its charm. The colors are just a little too Kodachrome rather than Agfachrome. But most of the time it is wonderful.