5 Amazing* Kodak Ektar 100 Photos From My First Roll

Flashback to late 2008. Digital has completely obliterated 35mm sales. Kodak, Fuji, and Ilford are about to shut down their film processing lines and go under. Digital SLR owners worldwide cheer in a unified rejoice as they drink the blood from the severed heads of film photographers in the jubilee that followed once they've finally [...]

At least they both shoot.

Strange but true. Yesterday I was walking home from work and had my M3 ready in my right hand. Someone I passed asked me if I holding a German Luger.
Lets compare the two real quick shall we?
Leica M3 with 35mm Goggled Summaron.

German Luger
Image borrowed from http://www.luger-genesis.com/ with love, and without permission.
I gave him half credit [...]

Battle of the Century

So I have the temporary use of a nice old Leica M3. Today I vowed that when I woke up, that I was going to go out and shoot a roll with it. I also vowed that I was going to take one of my Canonet QL17s with me and compare it shot-by-shot against the [...]

Duluth Classic Photos

As promised, here are my results from the Duluth Classic bike race. Full set of keepers can be viewed in this set on my flickr page.

More photos by clicking here.

Grandma's Marathon `08

Seven hours of my feet.
18 photos with the Speed Graphic.
72 Photos with the 124G.
96 Color photos with my M3.
128 B&W photos with my M3.
Longest single outing I think I've ever had, and the first where I got to wear an actual badge saying "Official Photographer" and I'm surprisingly not as a sore as I expected. [...]

How Quiet Are Leica Shutters?

Testing of the noise of the Leica M3 against other focal plane shutter cameras.

Leica Collectors

A little over a year ago was the first time I ever put my hands on a Leica range finder camera. It was an M3 in damn near cosmetic mint condition with only the natural wear of a camera that hasn't been used much. The range finder was a bit dull, and some of the [...]

Leica Makes a Boo-boo

Leica is sending a boatload of people to Duluth. Only, you wouldn't know that by the photos in the promotional material.

Look at all those bikes.

So it seems that the course for third stage of the Duluth Classic Bike Race goes right in front of where I am living. I had no clue until about 9:30 this morning when I looked out of my front window and seen a massive swarm of bikes going past.
I loaded up some [...]

Rangefinder Thumb

What a year of rangefinder use can do to a glove.

Two Special Edition Leica M6s You May Have Missed

Like most of the rangefinder using population, I'm going to assume that you already own the Danish Royal Wedding Special Edition M6, the 500 Year Christopher Columbus M6, and the Ein Stück Leica M6 which celebrates Leica being publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock exchange. With these cornerstone collectible M6s already in your possession, the [...]

War Protest

Last week I caught wind of an Iraq War protest being held a block away from where I work, and was conveniently starting right when I would be leaving the office. I grabbed my M3, a pocketful of hp5+, and attended the rally to do some rogue photojournalism.

The entire set can be seen on my [...]