Leica M3 Archives

9 December, 2025

Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder

By Tony Page

In 2025, it feels like everyone has an opinion on film photography. For some, it is nostalgia, for others it is a TikTok trend, for a few it is a fully fledged cult. Somewhere b...

3 December, 2025

Night Shooting on Halloween with a Leica M3 and a Contax T2

By Scott Ferguson

Halloween, 2025 has been on my calendar as a shooting opportunity for a couple of months. In NYC the scale of the revelry is epic, including a giant parade in the West Village ...

27 November, 2025

5 Frames, No Kings

By Scott Ferguson

I was excited to bring my M3 to the recent No Kings protest in Manhattan in October. I don’t have a huge amount of experience shooting ‘documentary’ style to ...

25 October, 2025

What do the film “Das Boot,” a Porsche 911, a Leica M3, the Bavarian lakes and mountains, and my wife Dani have in common?

By Jens

This fantastic Sunday afternoon, captured on Kodak Gold 200, was one of those rare gifts where everything aligned perfectly: the weather, the scenery, the car – and, naturally, ...

9 September, 2025

My Own Winterreise (Winter Journey)

By Curtis Heikkinen

Some of you interested in classical music might be familiar with the composer Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” for voice and piano depicting a man’s journey through a h...

1 July, 2025

Music in Manhattan – A One Shot Story

By Scott Ferguson

I was walking up Fifth Ave heading to a student film festival at the Paris Theater when a string quartet of young musicians caught my eye. My Leica M3 was loaded with a roll of ...

29 April, 2025

Holiday? Relapse? A Night Out with My Leica M3

By David Pauley

I made it almost three months into the Year of Only One Camera (my Rolleiflex 2.8F) but then – as some of you predicted – made the decision to allow myself a brief h...

20 April, 2025

Downtown with a Leica M3

By Curtis Heikkinen

I hike, kayak and snowshoe as much as I can. I really enjoy getting out in the backcountry by myself. Sometimes, though, I find great satisfaction in the urban landscape, wand...

Miguel Mendez on Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder
Algunos como yo soñamos con esa camara desde hace decadas y por algun motivo ese deseo es mas fuerte que…
Erik Brammer on Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder
Hey Tony, thanks for what I consider a solid summary of the Leica M film photo experience that I have…
Geoff Chaplin on Osaka with a Leica iiig and Summitar
Thanks Bradley. Kyoto first!

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