The Leica M Photographer

The Leica M Photographer
Author: Bertram Solcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Cameras
ISBN: 9781937538620

What it is and what it isn't. This not a camera manual for the Leica M, nor is it a book that will teach you photography. Nevertheless, in Bertram Solcher's book you will learn a whole lot about your camera and how to use it, and about the art and craft of photography. This book contains a collection of illustrated essays that are meant to reveal the secrets of working with a rangefinder camera. To be more precise, with the best camera ever made. The book's ultimate goal is to ignite your passion for the kind of spontaneous, minimalist, and creative photography we admire in the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joel Meyerowitz, and other great Leica photographers. All Leica M model cameras, both analog and digital, use rangefinder technology. Because of its design, working with a Leica M requires a more methodical style of photography where the photographer must slow down and exercise attention and purpose. Using these cameras is both challenging and rewarding. With a Leica M, you can mingle discretely within your environment to capture candid, exciting, insightful images. Bertram Solcher, a professional Leica M photographer for over 35 years, demonstrates how to use this unique camera in a practical and effective way. Solcher's enthusiasm, substantial experience, and technical expertise will help you learn the skills necessary for creating masterful photographs with any Leica M camera.

The Leica M Photographer

The Leica M Photographer
Author: Bertram Solcher
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 145718916X

What it is and what it isn't. This not a camera manual for the Leica M, nor is it a book that will teach you photography. Nevertheless, in Bertram Solcher's book you will learn a whole lot about your camera and how to use it, and about the art and craft of photography. This book contains a collection of illustrated essays that are meant to reveal the secrets of working with a rangefinder camera. To be more precise, with the best camera ever made. The book's ultimate goal is to ignite your passion for the kind of spontaneous, minimalist, and creative photography we admire in the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joel Meyerowitz, and other great Leica photographers. All Leica M model cameras, both analog and digital, use rangefinder technology. Because of its design, working with a Leica M requires a more methodical style of photography where the photographer must slow down and exercise attention and purpose. Using these cameras is both challenging and rewarding. With a Leica M, you can mingle discretely within your environment to capture candid, exciting, insightful images. Bertram Solcher, a professional Leica M photographer for over 35 years, demonstrates how to use this unique camera in a practical and effective way. Solcher's enthusiasm, substantial experience, and technical expertise will help you learn the skills necessary for creating masterful photographs with any Leica M camera.

Think Like a Street Photographer

Think Like a Street Photographer
Author: Derren Brown
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2023-06-08
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1399615319

'Never does that old maxim "the harder I practice, the luckier I get" ring truer.' - Matt Stuart Street photography may look like luck, but you have to get out there and hone your craft if you want to shake up those luck vibes. Matt Stuart never goes out without his trusty Leica and, in a career spanning twenty years, has taken some of the most accomplished, witty and well-known photographs of the streets. From understanding how to be invisible on a busy street, to anticipating a great image in the chaos of a crowd, Matt Stuart reveals in over 20 chapters the hard-won skills and secrets that have led to his greatest shots. He explains his purist and uniquely playful approach to street photography leaving the reader full of ideas to use in their own photography. Illustrated throughout with 100 of Stuart's images, this is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the finest street photographers around.

Leica M

Leica M
Author: Günter Osterloh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Leica camera
ISBN: 9781454700692

The ultimate Leica guide--written by the company's top technical expert--now includes the Leica MP. This classic source contains a goldmine of technical information and insider knowledge, and covers Leica's famed lenses plus every film model from the M1 through the MP--along with schematic diagrams and explanations of metering, focusing, flash systems, film advance, and more.

The Street Photographer's Manual

The Street Photographer's Manual
Author: David Gibson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 050054526X

This updated edition profiles twenty of the world’s leading street photographers and teaches readers how to capture profound urban moments. In recent years, photo sharing on social media has rejuvenated street photography, and its spirit has been reborn. The Street Photographer’s Manual is about the possibilities of street photography as a medium, and how it can be approached in an accessible way. The book begins with an overview of street photography, examining its past, present, and future, and looking at how the genre has changed over time. The reader is then introduced to twenty of the most acclaimed international street photographers. This new, revised edition features six new photographers: Troy Holden, Merel Schoneveld, Melissa Breyer, David Gaberle, Michelle Groskopf, and Craig Whitehead. Integrated within the profiles are twenty fully illustrated tutorials, including how to shoot a face in a crowd and how to train your eye to observe and capture the unexpected. The Street Photographer’s Manual shows you that being a street photographer is partly about looking for luck. But luck requires inspiration—and that is where this book is indispensable.

Leica M Compendium

Leica M Compendium
Author: Jonathan Eastland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1994
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781897802052

The Leica M system has been with us since 1954. It rapidly became, and has remained the favorite instrument of photographers, especially photojournalists, who, like Henri Cartier-Bresson, seek to ""catch life in the act"", to record ""the decisive moment"". In this Leica M Compendium Jonathan Eastland describes the whole Leica M system from his experience as a professional photographer. He explains how to use, enjoy and get the best out of the cameras and lenses, regardless of age. The latest lenses can be used on the earliest cameras, and vice-versa, and the Visoflex, although no longer made, is now much easier to use with the M6 and its TTL metering. Advice on planning and shooting a story with the Leica and extensive tables of technical data complete this ideal companion for the practical Leica M photographer, as well as for the Leica collector and enthusiast.

Photographer's Guide to the Leica D-Lux 4

Photographer's Guide to the Leica D-Lux 4
Author: Alexander S. White
Publisher: White Knight Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0964987538

The first guidebook that explains the features and capabilities of Leica's widely acclaimed compact digital camera covers all features, functions, and controls of this remarkable camera.

Leica M

Leica M
Author: Günter Osterloh
Publisher: Heel Verlag Gmbh
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9783958431324

There is no other product in the world that is as exacting technically as the Leica M camera, whose design, manufacture and styling remained nearly unchanged during the past 60 years. This book vividly describes, in words and with numerous illustrations how this unique camera came to be and how it was possible to continually optimize its functions and to complement them with new technologies that were both innovative and sensible. Completely up-to-date with all information on the new Digital Leica M Typ 240. Text in English and German.

Leica M Photography

Leica M Photography
Author: Brian Bower
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Leica camera
ISBN: 9780715308424

A user's guide to the Leica "M"camera. It includes advice on film, exposure, printing and accessories, together with a chapter on buying Leicas second-hand. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs demonstrating the range of the camera's possibilities.

Unposed

Unposed
Author: Craig Semetko
Publisher: Whalen Studios Editions
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781951511432

Follow in the footsteps of Leica Camera Ambassador Craig Semetko’s 10 year trek across the globe to capture the spontaneity, humor, and juxtaposition of the human experience. In the book’s forward, iconic photographer Elliott Erwin writes, “Good photographs are tough enough to shoot. Really funny ones are even harder. Good and funny photographs observed in nature not arranged or manipulated but simply observed in real time with amazing consistency, constitute a minor miracle now presented in Mr. Semetko’s book…In my book, he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen.” Inspired by Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, and Elliott Erwitt, Craig Semetko is a collector of the spontaneous moment. With an uncanny knack for using Leica Cameras to capture the beautiful and unexpected that surrounds us all, Semetko offers a striking collection of imagery shot during 10 years of traveling around the world, from Edinburgh to Amsterdam, France to Los Angeles, Hanoi to Bangkok, and beyond. This visual celebration records the first decade of the twenty-first century across all walks of life. Semetko documents the muted beauty of regular people simply living their lives, and captures the humor found in the offbeat and eccentric contrasts all around us. Unposed is a memorable exploration of an era shot by a skilled photographer, dubbed by Esquire magazine as “a noble torchbearer” of the Leica Camera legacy.