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May 2, 2022 · Ever been curious about the electronic M7, Leica's only film rangefinder with DX coding and aperture priority mode? Me too! So I did a thing, traded a ton of gear, and got one. Here is a short...
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- Initial Impressions
- Battery
- Loading Film
- Using The Camera
- My Frustrations with The Leica
- Focusing
- Metering
- CA 35mm f/2.0 Summicron M Aspherical Lens
- Sample Images
- Conclusion
I was so excited when the Leica M7 came in the mail. I put up a post on Instagramand Facebook with an image of the camera and most of my friends commented that they were jealous. I noticed that people regard Leica very highly. So, I was excited to see what all the hype was about. My initial opinion right out of the box was that this camera felt goo...
The Leica requires two tiny non-rechargeable button batteries (3V Lithium) which are quite long-lasting. It will also work at two shutter speeds, 1/60th and 1/125th, without a battery. I like that feature!
Loading film proved to be more challenging than I had thought. I have been shooting film on a daily basis for the past 2.5 years. I feel fairly confident about using film cameras, but this camera proved to be much more difficult than I expected. The manual showed how to load film (this was my first time using this specific type of film camera), but...
What I love and hate about this camera is how manual the settings are. The knobs on the camera are simple and there’s not too many of them. One thing I do not like about modern digital cameras is how many features are offered. I think camera companies have made their cameras more complex then they need to be. I am happiest with the simplest of came...
At this point, I was getting pretty tired of this camera, because it has mostly just given me troubles. Troubles loading, troubles winding, and troubles with the image counter. I have found this camera to be the least intuitive camera I have ever used (which is difficult considering its knobs are so simple). Even my 5D Mark III, which is full of mo...
The other thing to know about Leica is that it has rangefinder focusing. I have a Polaroid 180 camera that I posted about here, that has rangefinder focusing. You can reference that post for more info on rangefinder focusing. I have come to the conclusion that I do not like rangefinder focusing, nor will I buy any camera in the future with it. Whil...
One thing that I did like with this camera was the in-camera meter. I left the settings on aperture priority for the meting and every frame was exposed correctly (well at least my lab told me that when they scanned my film). I am used to hauling around a handheld light meter when photographing on film, and it was a welcome change to leave it at hom...
While I liked the focal length of the Leica 35mm f/2.0 lens and the size/weight of it, overall I wasn’t a huge fan. As I describe below, I was underwhelmed with the images that it produced. The lens comes with a lens hood/flare shield that attaches to the front of the lens. It popped off unintentionally more times than I could count. Every time I t...
While I got some “good” images back, overall I did not love them. When I shoot film on my Contax 645 (my go-to film camera – it is a medium format camera with a larger negative, so I know I am not comparing apples to apples here), I am in love with my images. I know the Leica and the Contax are very different cameras, but I did not like the images ...
I would not recommend this camera. It gave me tons of problems and after loading 4 rolls of film (my plan was to shoot 5 rolls), I was done. One of them was blank, 1 got jammed, one I had to reload because it wasn’t advancing properly, and just one roll worked as expected. It is a very expensive camera, and in my opinion, the images that I was able...
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The LEICA M7 is a manual-focus rangefinder, automatic electronic-shutter 35mm full-frame camera. It has both manual and aperture-preferred auto exposure modes and works with all LEICA M lenses and accessories made since 1954. "Rangefinder" means that you focus by lining-up a superimposed image in a separate viewfinder.
The Leica Film M Forum is dedicated to everything around the Leica M-A / M7 / MP and other Film M cameras.
End of production. It's been reported on Red Dot Forum on 2018 May 24 that Leica has officially discontinued producing the M7 in both black and silver versions. [1] [2] There might be cameras in stock at retailers but no new cameras will be available once the current inventories are sold.
May 29, 2018 · Leica has discontinued its M7 film camera after 16 years of service. According to the Red Dot Forum, which is run by the Miami Leica store, the last of the M7 standard and ‘a la Carte’ bodies has been built and no more will be made.
