Leica M5 Archives

5 frames with a Leica M5 and Zeiss Biogon C 35mm f/2.8 – By Charles Morgan

By CharlesMorgan / December 23, 2019 / 5 frames with... / 29 Comments

Ever since I returned to film photography (with a Rolleicord bought from street photographer and Ilford artisan partner Keith Moss – now a friend) I have concentrated on exposing for good negatives. This has led me through numerous film stocks, developers and camera formats, and a gear acquisition strategy I compare to a game of Monopoly. Always trying, experimenting, changing to find that which I think of as perfection. Hampered by a natural indolence and carpel tunnel syndrome in both hands, and inspired by a visit to Wetzlar with a 1933 Leica III, I have decided that lightness and great optics (the lodestar of Oscar Barnack) are really what I need, but I still hanker after medium format.

5 Frames with a Leica M5 – by Petros Katradis

By Petros Katradis / November 1, 2018 / 5 frames with... / 9 Comments

The camera really is divisive. Even walking around Leica fans will mention how strange it is. The size, sure – the way the meter works – definitely. But for me, it’s a brutal let down to know how much this design was so utterly abandoned by the company – and make me treasure it all the more.

Leica M5 and R8 – In defence of the Forgotten Divas – by Markus Maurer

By The_Mason / October 3, 2018 / Rangefinders (Changeable Lens), SLRs / 38 Comments

My name is Markus. I come from a small town in the south of Germany and from my early twenties, I have been seriously into photography. I shoot mostly people, mostly nudes, and mostly on film. Obviously, this post isn’t about my photography. I live, unfortunately, relatively close to the university town of Tübingen, where after my studies I spent the next 8 years as a happy resident. I say unfortunately because this town is home to one of the finest camera shops I have ever seen: Foto Walter. Now this shop got me back into photography more times than I can count, and it also has the best used gear collection from a Leica enthusiast’s point of view that I know.

Leica M5 Review – The Odd One Out

By Hamish Gill / October 15, 2015 / Rangefinders (Changeable Lens) / 51 Comments

The Leica M5 is the odd one out in the Leica M family line. It’s the camera that nearly put an end to the Leica rangefinder after it was balked at by Leica users of its day for being too big, heavy, ugly and incompatible with what came before. Despite this, a search on Google …

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A couple of rolls with the Leica M5

By Hamish Gill / October 3, 2015 / Photos & Projects / 5 Comments

I realised the other day that I haven’t yet posted any photos I’ve taken with my Leica M5. So since just in the last few weeks I’ve shot a couple of rolls with it, I thought I’d share a few of the results.