I’ve gotten into the flow of it writing these Leica M reviews, they’ve become so familiar that going from one to the next, picking apart the minor differences between them has become easy. Even after a few weeks of using it, I was still completely baffled by the camera. I started pinning all hopes on the process of writing the post being a helping hand in me gathering my thoughts. This time, writing about Leica M5, I couldn’t have been less sure of where this post was going to go.
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Other times it’s the process of writing about a camera that helps me form a more full and rounded opinion, though even then I tend to start with a fairly solid idea of where the post will go. Sometimes when I start writing a post I’ve already spent enough time with the camera to come to a solid conclusion, and writing the post is just a case of going through the motions. The conclusion I came to was that sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. It took me a moment to answer, as I don’t think I’ve really thought about it before, at least not consciously.
I was asked the other day if I know what I am going to say about a camera before I start writing the post. 7 So, which is it, masterpiece or failure.
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6.1 A sense of manual aperture priority.6 Comparing the Leica M5 to the M7 – Prescribed usage.4 The Leica M5 in use – The functional differences.3.2.1 The last of the traditionally made Leicas.3.2 The Leica M5 in the hand – the mechanical and physical differences.3 Competing with its peers – My Leica M5 review.Perhaps because of all its positive traits, where the M5 was initially shunned, it now seems almost fashionable to favour it.īut which is the reality, the former or the latter? Did and does the Leica M5 it deserve its earlier fate, was it shunned by the public for good reason? Or are those who are now enlightened to its technical qualities right, and is it in fact Leica’s misunderstood masterpiece? It was for example the first Leica with a integrated coupled light meter a meter that to this day is seen by some as the best meter in any Leica rangefinder. With what is clearly a great deal of thought given to its design, (and no doubt cash) it was intended to move the rangefinder a step forward. It was made prior to the cost cutting processes imposed on the Leica M4-2, and like the M3 that came a few generations before it, it was designed as a no compromise camera created to fulfil all the requirements of the rangefinder photographer of its day. These days the M5 is quite often referred to as the last of the great Leicas. Despite this, a search on Google will now bring up more posts that extol its virtues than speak negatively of it – the Leica M5 seems to have been given a second chance. 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. The Leica M5 is the odd one out in the Leica M family line.
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