Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver USA

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

The MP is outstanding. Build construction and design are of the highest quality. The MP's body feels like its a solid brick of metal, seriously. The view finder has less of the "flare-up" issue in certain situations. The all metal M3 style film advance is just solid and good looking. After only four days I have already shot eight rolls of HP5! Shooting with the MP is just FUN. I don't know how to describe the feeling, shooting the MP with film bring so much more joy than any digital camera i have ever used. The MP puts the ball back in my court and shows me my weakness. No AF or AE to fall back on, 100% my successes and 100% my failures. Nothing to blame but myself. In the end the camera was built for shooting. ISO dial is firm and stays in place, shutter speed dial is stiff but not to stiff, the film rewind crank isn't as big an issues as people make it out to be I personally like it. If you choose to buy this Leica do it justice and shoot with it!

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

Are you kidding me? It just doesn't get any better than this. This camera is pure pleasure every time you press the shutter or advance the frame. A truly amazing instrument and worth every penny. You'll have to pry mine out of my cold dead hands as the saying goes.

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

I purchased one of these cameras when it fist came out back in 2002. About 500 rolls of film have passed through it with out any problems. What I love about rangefinders is the near instantaneous and quiet shutter and the lack of a mirror slap. I'm probably able to shoot two stops slower then an SLR. Fun little camera. Leica optics are superior too. And it has appreciated nicely too. I can sell it now for more then I purchased it new, but I won't as long as film and film processing are around.

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

i bought my MP from B&H about two months ago. i won't spen a lot of time comparing the MP against other M-cameras of modern times. i also have an M6 TTL, from 1998, and quickly compared to my M6 the looks of the MP screem classic, vintage, takes you back to the way things were before, great!!! the shutter feels a little better in my opinion than the old m6, but both feel good. basically leicas just keep getting better, so five stars there. as far as the camera in general, and compared to others... well, i simply love it. i started recently in photography, and i'm an amateur still. so i counted pixels, and memory cards and carried all my lenses where ever i went, and took 300 pictures of the same thing. but with the MP (leica way) i learned to concentrate more on the light, composition, and i love that you can see a little bit outside the frame lines to see what can you add or wait for when taking the picture. i learned that i can take car of most everything with only a couple of lenses (50mm and a wide angle) and somtimes just the 50mm will do. i love film unless you're really a pro with pro equipment on the digital photography the result will never match film with basic knowledge. i've taken better pictures in two months than in 3 years of digital, and is not because the camera does things better than other cameras, it's the way it works that let's you concetrate more on the actuall taking of the picture. don't worry about the lack of buttons and functions compared to digital cameras. humans have been taking great pictures for over a century now, and they didn[t have HDR or autofucos. you'll love it promise. don't worry about such technical reviews or people saying that it can't do macro or action so good. nobody says a sport car is bad for going off road because it's just not designed for that. so is the case with leica. they design leicas so that the camera gets out of the way from you and the picture, becoming just a tool for capturing what you have in mind, which is what cameras are really, just a tool.

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

The MP is outstanding. Build construction and design are of the highest quality. The MP's body feels like its a solid brick of metal, seriously. The view finder has less of the "flare-up" issue in certain situations. The all metal M3 style film advance is just solid and good looking. After only four days I have already shot eight rolls of HP5! Shooting with the MP is just FUN. I don't know how to describe the feeling, shooting the MP with film bring so much more joy than any digital camera i have ever used. The MP puts the ball back in my court and shows me my weakness. No AF or AE to fall back on, 100% my successes and 100% my failures. Nothing to blame but myself. In the end the camera was built for shooting. ISO dial is firm and stays in place, shutter speed dial is stiff but not to stiff, the film rewind crank isn't as big an issues as people make it out to be I personally like it. If you choose to buy this Leica do it justice and shoot with it!

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

Are you kidding me? It just doesn't get any better than this. This camera is pure pleasure every time you press the shutter or advance the frame. A truly amazing instrument and worth every penny. You'll have to pry mine out of my cold dead hands as the saying goes.

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

I purchased one of these cameras when it fist came out back in 2002. About 500 rolls of film have passed through it with out any problems. What I love about rangefinders is the near instantaneous and quiet shutter and the lack of a mirror slap. I'm probably able to shoot two stops slower then an SLR. Fun little camera. Leica optics are superior too. And it has appreciated nicely too. I can sell it now for more then I purchased it new, but I won't as long as film and film processing are around.

Comments about Leica MP .72 35mm Rangefinder Manual Focus Camera Body - Silver:

i bought my MP from B&H about two months ago. i won't spen a lot of time comparing the MP against other M-cameras of modern times. i also have an M6 TTL, from 1998, and quickly compared to my M6 the looks of the MP screem classic, vintage, takes you back to the way things were before, great!!! the shutter feels a little better in my opinion than the old m6, but both feel good. basically leicas just keep getting better, so five stars there. as far as the camera in general, and compared to others... well, i simply love it. i started recently in photography, and i'm an amateur still. so i counted pixels, and memory cards and carried all my lenses where ever i went, and took 300 pictures of the same thing. but with the MP (leica way) i learned to concentrate more on the light, composition, and i love that you can see a little bit outside the frame lines to see what can you add or wait for when taking the picture. i learned that i can take car of most everything with only a couple of lenses (50mm and a wide angle) and somtimes just the 50mm will do. i love film unless you're really a pro with pro equipment on the digital photography the result will never match film with basic knowledge. i've taken better pictures in two months than in 3 years of digital, and is not because the camera does things better than other cameras, it's the way it works that let's you concetrate more on the actuall taking of the picture. don't worry about the lack of buttons and functions compared to digital cameras. humans have been taking great pictures for over a century now, and they didn[t have HDR or autofucos. you'll love it promise. don't worry about such technical reviews or people saying that it can't do macro or action so good. nobody says a sport car is bad for going off road because it's just not designed for that. so is the case with leica. they design leicas so that the camera gets out of the way from you and the picture, becoming just a tool for capturing what you have in mind, which is what cameras are really, just a tool.