Nothing Leica healthy relationship pt.2

This post is a continuation of that one right here. So if you’re new to this, may I suggest you read the other one first.

One late summer evening at the kitchen sink, while I developed some black and white film, I stumbled across a YouTube video where a relatively random guy held a camera in another camera and praised it as the greatest and only substitute for a film camera - the Leica M9! Lightning struck again, no research, type in M9p and why not get an original Leica glass for another few k into the shopping cart, empty the bottle of red wine and press “buy now”.  My brain seems to sometimes completely skip any sort of evaluation phase and that’s by the way exactly how my first child and beloved daughter was made.

A few days later a very well maintained Leica M9p together with a Summicron 35 arrived at my place. The anticipation was high and this time my expectations were met. Somehow. I mean. A little bit. Okay honestly I was rather shocked. If you are used to the look of either film or nowadays digital cameras, you will be shocked of you look at the images out of an over ten year old CCD sensor that was prone to corrosion. Yes You read it right, google it…

But what really got me this time was the look of the lens. I got me a pretty standard Summicron of the fourth generation that is relatively affordable in Leica terms. You could really see a difference between the Voigtländer Nokton and the Leica lens in terms of image quality on a pixel peeper basis although the character of the Voigti is more up my alley to be honest. Once I got used to editing the Leica DNG`s I really started liking that camera. It was one of the most beautiful bodies I have ever owned. Can you feel it coming? The camera is gone by now. My Leica evolution is going on. Fuck me.

I will continue with the elephant in the room in a new entry that is yet to be written but for now enjoy some M9 imagery teamed up with a Summicron 35: