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Great video ! That is true M cameras need to be used :)

Problem with the 43 is the shallow dof when setting it for zone focus. You need a very narrow aperture.

The R lenses are inspiring, but the anamorphic lens you used to shoot this video has a lovely rendering. I'd love to see it on a monochrome sensor or at least a good black & white grade from a cinema camera footage.

Slippery slope getting into Leica R! I haven’t shot the 35 lux but it’s a bucket list lens. I’d say try out the 80mm summilux and the 100mm macro are two of the best lenses I’ve ever used. I actually like the 28mm 2.8 a lot for being affordable and punching above its weight class.

Soul > specs

Oooooo tasty! Love this, both the video, the images and the dialogue! Class Kevin

Do these have click-less aperture rings? I thought that 28 mm is ideal for the anamorphic aspect for cinema lenses

When I hit lotto my first chose with a 50mm 35mm 85mm lens

Great video!

Love these videos man. Keep em coming Kevin. Excited to spend some more time with my friends R set. He's got some good ones like that 19 and a 15mm.

I was offered the Leica R Apo Macro 100mm for around 1K euros but having just got the 90 f1.5 M I was like 'when am I ever going to use that?' Apparently, the focus throw is very long too, but it might be just the tool for photographing your bags and straps. Meanwhile a Helios 85 f1.5 is coming, a real bokeh monster. Great channel and I like your way of thinking about glass and pushing the envelope.

This video is fire. I would say the new lenses are quite impressive!!!

Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Images were great!

nice work. do one with the Nocti 0.95 !

track title?

I know what an Anamorphic lens is! Worked with Panavision cameras and lenses for over 40 years. Love your channel, and what you do!

Great video. Very informational 😮😄👏🏻

Wouldnt the M versions of these lenses from the same decade offer even more character?

re title question, depends on specific lenses like anything. The 100 APO ME was probably the best Leica lens made when it debuted in 87 up through the release of the 50 Lux ASPH but that's just my opinion. For a 35 or 50 lux/cron, would just get the contemporary M mount version in 9 out of 10 cases. for underrated lenses, Olympus OM 50mm and 90mm f2.0 auto-macros.

Leica R lenses are superb. Lovely video.

I will buy one of these if my Sony RX1 ever dies.

you can always tell when youtubers actually know what they are talking about! thanks for all the great explanations, Id wondered about viewfinder magnification for a while and what it meant. I've just bought an SL3 and 50mm summilux as my first leicas. I've not shot film in 20 years, but thinking a leica film body so I can enjoy the 50 mm summilux in a different way might be fun and creative.

Absolutely love this review. Not sure Q43 is for me. Have you tried the 14-24 F2.8 on the SL2S? Unreal. Loved your shots… the car, SD, and the making-of the strap. Glad I found this.

Thanks, Kevin, this drove me to get one, when I found a copy that had been serviced by Wetzlar in April of 2024. The lens absolutely stellar and IMHO worth every penny. I will probably get rid of my other 35s as I can't imagine putting an inferior 35 on my Leica, now I have this one. Not even the 216 steel rim...

Gorgeous. What are these cameras priced at these days?

Thanks--a very fair presentation. One piece if history you might have mentioned along with the tech details is that the M3 was selected as "the gadget of the century", I believe by Time/Life Inc. Not only was its late 1950s design so extraordinary that it remains the camera of choice for innumerable photo fans, but also its build quality will never be equaled. I take issue with your judgement re the SM Barnack series. Indeed, after one is familiar with the viewfinder of the M3 the corresponding finder of a Barnack appears almost impossible to use. This is not the case. While it is inferior, one can adapt to it, and one has the option of using the full array of Leica SM lenses. Another advantage: the Barnack is smaller than the M3 and much easier to tuck under a coat, especially with a collapsible lens. P.S. Please omit "literally" where you meant "actually," and don't use "incredible," which no longer has a meaning.

When you click for that fake patina m9

I bought a 3d printed quick load spool for my m3. It’s game changing for speed of loading of film.

if a camera has a ton of amazing features/qualities, lasts forever, and isnt crazy expensive, its a good camera. if it has all that, and has a crazy pricetag, its called getting what you pay for. In no way, shape, or form, will a leica, or its user, ever be the greatest. They're all average and glorified to pertain to a "pinkys out" "better than you" audience, hence this video. "greatest camera of all time" what a laugh.

Lucky me..I had one

Nice bag

It ain't !

Amazing camera. Do you have an mp-3 as well? Would love to see it.

An interview of the camera, and not even a one picture.

The LENS hood looks FUNNY as CHIT on that 43mm. lololol.

Great photos and video Kevin. Love the b&w ones the most, amazing what you can get out of that radioactive Summicron

Hey there! I was wondering which viewfinder you have attached? I bought an M4 and am looking to get one for 28mm

Thanks for the review, great photos and looks a superb camera. Just one thing in the narrative to amend - when you crop you do get the compression of an equivalent longer lens because the compression is a consequence of the perspective at that viewing distance not the optics used.

Leica's are brilliantly engineered, built to last and almost perfect within their limitations. But it's the limitations that make these cameras less than perfect. The lenses are astounding of course, but the end results are only slightly better than, say, Olympus or Nikon etc. The deal breaker for most people though is (obviously) the outrageous price. If I could afford one I'd buy one. But I can't, so I'll stick with my Nikons and Olympus's both of which give me results indistinguishable from Leica.

What anamorphic lens are you filming on please?

Your M3 appears to have two separate viewfinders. One for focus, one for composition. I prefer the external finder for even 50mm lenses.

Hey Kevin, what a qualitative and great review! Love the angles you used for the car. What camera did you film on? Warm greetings from Belgium

Sees the Koenigsegg in the background. Quickly proceeds to Instagram.

Must be something in the air. Two days ago I bought a tidy 1962 M3 with a collapsible 5cm Summicron. It will be checked and I pick it up in Paris

100%. The best Leica M of all times.