Leica 50mm Summicron Archives

4 July, 2020

5 Frames with a Leica M2, 50mm Summicron V5 and 35mm Zeiss Biogon f2 – By Giles Barratt

By Giles Barratt

I am a musician and have been spending quite a lot of time in Krakow, especially as it's a great city for jazz. For the last say 3-4 years I have been enjoying photography espec...

3 April, 2020

Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron DR – Plum Blossoms – By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

About a month before Japan’s world-famous cherry blossom season in late March, is the lesser-known plum blossom season in late February. Plum blossoms in Japan are the first hin...

9 July, 2019

5 Candid Portraits in Paris with a Leica M3, Summicron 50mm f/2, and Kodak T-MAX 100 Film – By Steve Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

I love Paris. While I live in Japan, my business often takes me to Europe, and whenever it does, I always spend a weekend or so in Paris before moving on to wherever I need to g...

9 January, 2019

5 Candid Portraits in Tsukiji Pushing T-Max 100 with a Leica M6J and Summicron 50mm f/2- By Steven Bleistein

By Steven Bleistein

Tsukiji is one of the few remaining neighborhoods in Tokyo where you can get a sense of what the city was like in the 1950s and 1960s, and a favorite street photography stomping...

21 August, 2018

5 Frames with the Summishica – By Andy Karlson

By Andy Karlson

I've returned to film photography fairly recently, having impulsively bought a Yashica TL-Super (plus three lenses and a parts body) for $30 at a garage sale last September. Sin...

10 December, 2017

Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron v3 – Cameraworks Restoration Review

By Hamish Gill

A few years ago a mate of mine bought a v3 50mm Leica Summicron that could be best described as a bit of a dog. Optically, it was spot on, but mechanically it looked and felt a ...

30 January, 2015

A lost roll from Christmas – 50mm V4 Summicron and XP2

By Hamish Gill

I shot quite a few rolls over Christmas, but a few got left in cameras halfway through. In the case of this film, it got left in the Leica M7. The purchase of an Leica M3 and a ...

30 October, 2014

Hartlebury Train Carriages – Cinestill 800T and 50mm Summicron

By Hamish Gill

These train carriages are parked up on a disused bit of railway line just inside the Hartlebury Trading estate near Kidderminster. Quite beautiful in their decay I think, I deci...

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Neal, I enjoyed your article and the photos. It was very cool for you to shoot a very slow film…
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Thanks Erik! Yes, Kyota and Sasha were the standouts that afternoon, but Greenwich Village, East and West is full of…

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