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  • baccano@lemmy.worldOPtoPics@lemmy.mlHotdog Nightmare
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    1 year ago

    It’s my first digital body and I’m not too precious about the sensor/look details between the different bodies after the M9. As long as it mounts my glass and I can play in Lightroom I’m happy.

    I got lost in all the breakdowns between the M8-11 minutiae. Eventually, I just set a budget and kept my eyes open for a body.

    I picked it up used at the Leica retail store in Soho NYC in better condition and pricing than I’d seen at Adorama and B&H for the same model.

    I don’t have much to compare it too beyond an M6 and I find it feels good and is solid as you’d expect from a Leica. It’s one sweet unit.

    Here is a pic of the body


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    It’s my first digital body and I’m not too precious about the sensor/look details between the different bodies after the M9. As long as it mounts my glass and I can play in Lightroom I’m happy.

    I picked it up used at the Leica retail store in Soho NYC in better condition and pricing than I’d seen at Adorama and B&H for the same model.

    I don’t have much to compare it too beyond an M6 and I find it feels good and is solid as you’d expect from a Leica. It’s one sweet unit.






  • In my role I get copious email, direct, cc’d for visibility or automated stuff.

    In Gmail, I build a rule to label and archive automated things like alerts or bills and keeps them out of my inbox and I can choose to engage at my leisure.

    For everything else I star and archive. I have a few points throughout the day I triage or act on. Immediate response things get responded too, things I need to address but it’s not urgent I star and archive. Then I look through my starred emails occasionally to see if anything has risen in priority for me to address, and I do so. Everything else lays untouched in starred.

    What I find is this keeps me close to inbox zero, helps me keep important stuff visible and often stuff I’ve starred, given time takes care of itself before I engage and I eventually unstar it to never be seen again as it just wasn’t important or didn’t need my engagement.

    It works well for me. Sometimes I get behind, and that’s ok. I’m only one person, and I have time boxed time to prevent email dominating my life












  • It’s well built, I’ll say that. No play in it’s construction, everything is smooth, aperture stops click satisfyingly.

    Like I said, the focus takes a bit to get used to, but it’s not too bad. The little focus ears are cute, remind me of the ones you’d find on the old Arri-mount Cooke Kinetels for 16mm. I’ll probably remove them at some point.

    I haven’t done much with it yet, but It’s sharp, with a soft bokeh, warmer tones than Zeiss or Leica glass. It looks like a Cooke :)

    In terms of shooting with a digital body, it certainly is nice not sitting on a roll for a while before developing it. I’m still getting used to the Lightroom Classic workflow and it’s capabilities. The freedom is a bit intimidating.

    I’m used to trying to get what I want in the camera. Knowing the film stock, the processes, the lens… I like the exercise of solving the puzzle. I was never one for shooting clean and relying on post. The DNG format is pretty flexible, reminds me of working on a digital intermediate in cine.

    I like quirky lenses and shallow DoF. I shoot a lot with a single coated Voigtlander 40mm Nokton and get a nice painterly feel, so I think the LLL SP2 will fit in nicely.

    I’ll post a sample as a new post here to get the post count going for the community.