🔴 Leica is BETTER? Here's WHY - Reasons Photographers Use Leica (Digital)

Is Leica better? Poll results as to WHY Leica, photographers prefer digital Leica to other cameras

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[derrenleepoole]

I got the Leica M9 because I wanted a camera and not a computer, and you touched upon this in the video. To be honest, I would use any camera brand if it offered the same user experience, it just so happens that Leica are the only manufacturer offering a user experience I find most rewarding. Also, what you quickly realise is you don't need masses of ISO as you would believe and I've been happily shooting the M9 in gig setting and getting great results. I've been posting slideshow videos on my own channel of images captured with the M9 if anyone cares to have a gander.

[paulatterby]

Couldnt agree more, number one reason build quality and simplicity. By the way Im still on iphone4, see no reason to change!

[HartponderJr]

I have been a Fuji XPro (1-3) user since 2013. I am ready to invest in my first Leica when the Q3 comes out…you win! Lol

[SavedbybGrace]

Great video Matt. Still using the older cameras and producing awesome work!!! Two cameras I wish I hadn't sold, M6 & M9. Beautiful units. Maybe I'll add another M6 one day.

[rezzab]

I bought an M9 when it first came on the market, I’m still using it a lot, when I was much younger I had an M3 with a collapsible 50mm Summicron.

[Narsuitus]

Thanks for the video.

I bought my M6 for the reliability, the ergonomics, the image quality, the manufacturing quality, the attractiveness, and the status.

[walkingmanvideo]

Hi Matt thanks for this video. I am a first time Leica owner. For years I have worked with several brands, starting with canon which i still use to this day, Sony A7 series which I use more for video and recently a Fuji XPro3 which is my personal, everyday, life and travel camera. A few weeks ago I made a significant leap in purchasing my first ever Leica, a Q3. I was and still am amazed by the build quality, image quality, simplicity, weight and feel of this camera. All my other gear except my faithful Canon 1dx all feel plastic and cheap. I purchased the Q3 as my new life camera, to capture special moments, travel and everyday. I will never use it for work. I know this sounds silly, but I am in love with this camera. I have an attachment to it that I want it with me everywhere to document life. I will admit I am a red neck strap Leica photographer, I am proud to show it off and talk about it with other photographers. Thanks for producing the video as it really reinforced why Leica is a brand that has soul and emotional value, their cameras become a part of your life and not a pointless accessory. Cheers. When someone owns an alternate brand camera, they take photos, when someone owns a Leica, they make photos. - my saying :)

[zoltankaparthy]

What you say is true. It is a well-made and usable camera with great images. They are bling for some but for the rest of us it is a great way to get good photos.

[izzyleicanut]

To each his own. Everyone has their favourite. I’ve been on the M since the early 90s (analogue) to present day digital. Love em to bits and I wouldn’t trade it for any other. Take care

[knutvonheim]

Agree with much of what Matt says in this video. I have and use a Leica M9 from 2009.

Good video and thank you!!

[TheLDunn]

I bought & used my first Leica camera in the summer of 2021, it was an itch that just needed scratching.

I had been using a Sony A7R3 often with adapted manual focus lenses, and often in manual exposure mode, which all seemed to align me well with a Leica M. Prior to the A7R3, it has been a Canon 5D2, again, often using adapted manual focus lenses

As your survey identified, I like the feel and build quality in my hand. I like the basic/straight forward controls / layout.

The biggest disappointment has really been the exposure indication in the viewfinder. I dislike the left/right triangles indicating over/under exposure, because it doesn’t give any indication to how much over/under you are. I learnt on manual film SLR’s which had a swing needle exposure indicator, which immediately shows how close your exposure in over/under exposed. Leica tells you if you are under or over, but it doesn’t tell you by how much. I had not thought about this issue before hand, I guess my concern was more toward how I’d get on with Range finder focusing.

[carlosmcse]

100% is the simplicity of the rangefinder. Because I can get the other stuff with other cameras. If you want a simple full frame digital rangefinder; that’s the only game in town.

[anta]

I think it's interesting to note that most digital Leica M users are either journalists or documentary/street photographer, pretty much like back to Leica M film era.

On the other side, landscape/studio photographers typically are probably still happy with their Hasselblad system. Different camera for different purpose, I guess

[jacovanlith]

Which camera is best for photographing
my mother in law?
The Coffinflex will do?

[stephane]

Good to see you covered the "it's taped over the logo" part.

[FourIntoOne]

I bought a 2nd hand Sony a7 to shoot with my Leica Lenses so I could use them in the digital sphere (was using them on an M6) as it was the cheapest way of going digital with a Leica front end. To be honest I was a little terrible but the images just weren't doing it for me. So I bit the bullet and did what I should have done in the first place - bought a 2nd hand Leica MP typ 240 to add to my M6. Wow - thats MUCH more like it. Don't see myself ever getting rid of the MP typ 240 anytime soon (its already about 8 years old when.I bought it lol) the whole analogue digital experience is just what I was actually looking for.

[northof-]

I think Oscar Barnack wanted a "Kleinbildkamera" (small image camera) to give results that were as usable as a medium format image is, as best he could.
To do that he turned the regular 35mm film format sideways and doubled the frame size. But he also needed lenses that could deal with the small negative and reduce the scene into a 24x36mm frame without losing too much detail. So this is why they (Leica lenses) were made to such a high standard.
Of course he didn't achieve medium format quality prints, but they were acceptable up to a certain size.
This is just my opinion .

[mathieucithi]

#3 In fact Leica is the only company making full frame digital rangefinder camera. There is Pixii digital range finder ( Leica M mount) and I guess Fuji xpro line ( and x100) is near the experience . Love your videos, Especially the barnack ones !

[markhoffman]

I have seasons of Leica envy - especially a Q2 - but when I weigh up the cost and then the features I would have to give up - like IBIS that lets me shoot hand held at 3 seconds, dependable WR construction of body and lenses that stand up to years of rain, sand, silt, saltwater and fish slime and up to 60 fps full size RAW images ... and I go off and enjoy the camera I have all the more.

[michaelwilson]

After several many years with Leica M, Q and SL I am migrating towards the Sony sphere. The A7R V has an almost identical, if not identical, sensor to the one in the M11 and the colours and “pop” are just as good with both GM and adapted Leica glass. Yes, the A7R V has umpteen menu choices but the “main” menu is simple and not far off the SL2/SL2-S Home Screen. And like software, you don’t have to use every choice just because it’s there. Oh, and it’s got PDAF.