it's crazy because I have always loved your landscape photography but your street/architecture photos are absolutely stunning and definitely showcase a different style and I think I like them more.
@@rookie4619 I get where you’re coming from. IMO, even if the video is more gear-oriented there are still some nice shots and his personality makes it worth-while.
No boring stats, charts, and regurgitation of information confirmation - just a genuine photo guy with a lorry load of sarcastic undertones that keeps my adddistic attention span in perfect 2/3 harmony. Keep it up, gear boy!
@@JimSamuel267 I tried taking similar photographs with my ordinary camera that has an ordinary battery and they came out blank. Do you think I should get a leica?
Really lovely photography. It’s so interesting to see how tastes or processes change. These are so nicely muted/pastel but tasteful while older gen photographers like Webb or Gruyaert seem to have massive areas of black to pop their images.
These are probably the best pictures I see from you in a long time... just saying. Aside of your touch and eye for the art, the help to achieve this, can be the location, the camera, or the commitment to a paid job, but anyway, the photos are amazing. Congrats. ...just coming back to say, yeap, these are the best photos from you, period. Not probably.
I have a Sony A7r4, then I added the Fuji x100v, then a Leica Q2 mono, leading to a Leica M11 with a Voigtlander APO 50mm f2. I love the M11. Between the Q2 Mono and the M11, they have become my two everyday cameras. As for the screen protector, I bought a very cheap one on Amazon for $4.99. It has been there for about a year with no problems. Have fun with your new camera.
Well, those images were once again fantastic. Loved the scenes/subjects you picked and the way you handle colour is simply phenomenal, James! Great video overall. Thank you,
Beautiful photos, really love the blues on some of those. I would absolutely love to see you do a little side by side shooting with X-PRO3 and either the 35mm f2 or 33mm 1.4 vs. your Leica with the 50mm. Both of those lenses are higher quality output than the 27mm. SOOOO many fuji/leica shooters often choose between one or the other it would surely be a successful video!
Ok. So James is sharing his experiences with a camera most of us don’t own, but find interesting and intriguing. In addition to the camera, he is sharing his work with candor and humor, and he is taking some great shots. And, as one person here mentioned, he is having fun. That’s enough for me. I hope he keeps it up.
Well-done presentation, with wonderful images! I added the Leica M system in 2018, following a brief financial windfall, buying a new Leica M10, which may remain the only Leica camera I will ever be able to afford to buy new. It is good to see yet another professional photographer giving a positive assessment of the Voigtlander 50mm APO Lanthar, which appears to punch well above its price point. I have been more interested in 50mm lenses with “character,” but if I ever need to acquire a superbly-optically-corrected 50mm lens, this Voigtlander option is the leading contender.
Nice to see one of my favorite photography wonks visiting the city I call home--definitely gave me some inspiration on how I see things around here next time I'm out with my camera.
Yah, not anything I can relate to or afford, but I like you and your personality so… I watched it. Thanks for another great video of you not taking yourself to serious and fun to watch.
I guess you don’t buy a Leica for the value, you buy it for the images it can produce in the right hands. And your images are stellar. In spite of the numerous compromises of the camera, which would be intolerable in anything but a Leica!
I wish I had more money to buy Leica, but I will have to wait. At the moment I'm saving to buy a new computer screen, my old one is utter rubbish. The other day I compared photographs taken by Leica I downloaded from the internet with similar photographs taken with my old camera, that I bought on ebay with one battery and a charger for about as much as Leica battery and a charger would cost and the pictures looked the same to me, I couldn't tell the difference, that's how terrible my screen is.
@@tdemask they look great to me, but I'm sure it's because my broken computer screen cannot render those images produced with Leica. Professional photographers wouldn't spent so much money on it, if they could take as good looking pictures with cameras that are still too expensive for me, but cost 5000-6000 less than Leica
Loved the minimalist photos, great job!🙂 With 61 MPs you have the freedom to crop from 28mm to 35 or even 50 (equiv. FoV), or from 50 to 85. So great lens choices, many applications.
Great video and awesome shots as usual, James. I appreciate getting your take on Leica rather than the more common street shooter or film photographer reviews. The M cameras are likely going to be something I always want but will never buy as a hobbyist, but I always enjoy seeing the photos they produce. Especially from a photographer as talented as yourself. Cheers!
Incredible photos. Some of my favorite that you've ever taken. I'm curious how you feel shooting with the Leica vs. the Fuji. I have an X100V and an M10, and pretty much stopped using the X100V after getting the M10. I simply don't enjoy shooting with a non-rangefinder anymore
I have a Leica M10 with 90/35/21mm lenses and a Fuji X-Pro2 with 56/23/16mm lenses. When I purchased the M10, it was supposed to replace the Pro2 as my main camera. However, to my surprise, I prefer shooting with the Pro2.
Great photos from the trip! 👌😃 Summarizing your remarks about the camera: rubbish 😛 Or at least full of quirks solved in other cameras a long time ago 😃
This makes me really regret selling my Leica gear. I couldn't afford to keep it, but still. The experience is something else. The photos this week are some of your best (at least in recent memory). So bright and airy, seems like you really found your groove in the post-processing.
1:43 is such an amazing photo to describe your "about something" mantra. Appart from the shapes just being pleasant, the woman in the photo immediately make me ask several questions! What is the weird structure the woman is standing on? Why is she standing there? Where is she pointing? Who is she looking at? Love it!
I love those photos! The light there is magical, as is the architecture. I have the M11 as well. I suspect your finicky charging experience was due to the cable. One reason for the high cost of some Leica batteries (SL and Q series as well as the M11) is that they are and have to be bespoke because they act as part of the weather sealed bottom plates. As for dual card slots, I doubt there is room for a second slot. If you look at an exploded diagram, you’ll notice that compact body is absolutely crammed full of electronics and the rangefinder.
I recently got a used first gen Leica Q, and last weekend did a trip with that + X-Pro3 and a 27mm f2.8 on it. That proved to be a fantastic travel combo! Leica Q especially for tighter spaces and when there was less light, Fuji otherwise for weather resistance and supremely versatile focal length, which I definitely prefer to 35mm, but is a bit more forgiving compared to a 50mm equivalent.
Leicas, UAE trips... Feels quite far from how the channel was when I started to follow it... Still love your humor and the focus on the photographic process.
The minimalist urban landscape photos were really good. Although they looked a bit Fuji to me. But I was watching on an iPad so it was more about colour and composition (as it should be) than “Ooh! Look at those pixels!!”
Beautiful shots! I took a 28mm and 50mm with my Pentax MX for a year in Europe in 1980. Probably the most fun I’ve ever had with a camera. I guess no viewfinder would be a show stopper for me, though.
Sounds like an interesting trip with your "pretty good" camera. I'm sticking with my R5. Although I'm not going to Abu Dhabi. ps. I sold all my old cameras and lenses to MPB and am very happy.
Those minimalist photos were absolutely incredible. I LOVED so many of them
Agreed. Great architecture. Great captures.
Absolutely agree. Glad he took the challenge to photograph at a very different place.
Yeah always hope to come across such minimalistic scenes, but can never find them - Need to search better in the right places
Do you really need an exorbitant priced Leica to get these images ?
@@vincephillips4331Nope. But it does make it more fun.
it's crazy because I have always loved your landscape photography but your street/architecture photos are absolutely stunning and definitely showcase a different style and I think I like them more.
James trying out a new camera with each video is quickly becoming a meme at this point.
Honestly preferred it when he just repped m43 and focused more on the photography. When in doubt, talk about gear
Gear Acquisition Syndrome is a real thing. He is having fun!
@@rookie4619 I get where you’re coming from. IMO, even if the video is more gear-oriented there are still some nice shots and his personality makes it worth-while.
@@ChadWilson I know, right? I had to talk myself down from buying a lens that I would never have used that much anyway.
Yep...He now looks like the other photo channels, who shill new cameras to build affiliate sales.
No boring stats, charts, and regurgitation of information confirmation - just a genuine photo guy with a lorry load of sarcastic undertones that keeps my adddistic attention span in perfect 2/3 harmony.
Keep it up, gear boy!
I love how the Leica m11 battery is actually more expensive than my whole camera gear that I shoot with daily 😅
😂😂
But power from Leica batteries is so much better than the power from ordinary batteries.
@@JimSamuel267 I tried taking similar photographs with my ordinary camera that has an ordinary battery and they came out blank. Do you think I should get a leica?
@@defqqq Before you get a Leica, make sure you removed the lens cap.
@@JimSamuel267 ffs
Excellent sharing . Thank you !
Gorgeous photography and very nice editing.
Really lovely photography. It’s so interesting to see how tastes or processes change. These are so nicely muted/pastel but tasteful while older gen photographers like Webb or Gruyaert seem to have massive areas of black to pop their images.
Absolutely amazing photos! Great video. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!
Very interesting story and wonderful pictures! Did I mention that the pictures are wonderful?
These are probably the best pictures I see from you in a long time... just saying. Aside of your touch and eye for the art, the help to achieve this, can be the location, the camera, or the commitment to a paid job, but anyway, the photos are amazing. Congrats.
...just coming back to say, yeap, these are the best photos from you, period. Not probably.
I am blown away by your photography + color grading - wow! love it!
Wow wow wow.... pretty camera and extraordinary pictures!!!
Really excellent photos, thanks for sharing.
Wow you're eye was really in the zone in Abu Dhabi! Great selection of photos. Inspired to get out with my camera now.
I have a Sony A7r4, then I added the Fuji x100v, then a Leica Q2 mono, leading to a Leica M11 with a Voigtlander APO 50mm f2. I love the M11. Between the Q2 Mono and the M11, they have become my two everyday cameras. As for the screen protector, I bought a very cheap one on Amazon for $4.99. It has been there for about a year with no problems. Have fun with your new camera.
Well, those images were once again fantastic. Loved the scenes/subjects you picked and the way you handle colour is simply phenomenal, James! Great video overall. Thank you,
Stunning architecture and stunning images by you. Well done James - enjoy your sleep.
James: This isn't a gear channel
Also James: Bought another camera lol
Beautiful photos, really love the blues on some of those. I would absolutely love to see you do a little side by side shooting with X-PRO3 and either the 35mm f2 or 33mm 1.4 vs. your Leica with the 50mm. Both of those lenses are higher quality output than the 27mm. SOOOO many fuji/leica shooters often choose between one or the other it would surely be a successful video!
Yes, would second this request for a comparison with the X-Pro 3.
You have incredible composition
James, all that I have to say is that the images you captured were beautiful.
Very nice images.
Ok. So James is sharing his experiences with a camera most of us don’t own, but find interesting and intriguing. In addition to the camera, he is sharing his work with candor and humor, and he is taking some great shots. And, as one person here mentioned, he is having fun. That’s enough for me. I hope he keeps it up.
I usually don’t comment, but every one of the pictures from this trip were just spectacular. Seriously, I would get a print in a heartbeat
Gorgeous Abu Dhabi photos ..
Well-done presentation, with wonderful images! I added the Leica M system in 2018, following a brief financial windfall, buying a new Leica M10, which may remain the only Leica camera I will ever be able to afford to buy new. It is good to see yet another professional photographer giving a positive assessment of the Voigtlander 50mm APO Lanthar, which appears to punch well above its price point. I have been more interested in 50mm lenses with “character,” but if I ever need to acquire a superbly-optically-corrected 50mm lens, this Voigtlander option is the leading contender.
Your pictures are amazing, BRAVO.
One of my new favorite RUclips videos!
Excellent colours with your photographs
Great photos, James. Love all those colours and the geometric patterns. Some nice textures too👍
Wooo. These images are *chefs kiss* 🌸✨
Nice to see one of my favorite photography wonks visiting the city I call home--definitely gave me some inspiration on how I see things around here next time I'm out with my camera.
You are the Abudaddy❤,clean shots mate, truly my biggest inspiration!
Thank you, Nice photos.
I’m not ganna lie I have been following for about a year and to me your one of the best photographers Iv seen on RUclips! Keep on the grind!
Wow! Great video and even greater pictures! Very nice work!!
Man, these photos look so good! Amazing camera, amazing photographic eye!
Love the images and the colour. I remember you from back in your LUMIX days.
Love the photos, in my opinion some of the best I have seen of yours
Yah, not anything I can relate to or afford, but I like you and your personality so… I watched it. Thanks for another great video of you not taking yourself to serious and fun to watch.
Looks like a great spot! Very different. Glad you're enjoying the Leica.
Dude that shot at 0:20 is so nice! Don’t know what it is about it, but I love it. Actually paused to look closer at it.
Loves the images. The symmetry is fantastic
I've watched tons of your videos and these are literally my favourites yet. They look incredible
Entertaining as always, great photos!
you have a new camera for each week of the year ahahaha
I guess you don’t buy a Leica for the value, you buy it for the images it can produce in the right hands. And your images are stellar. In spite of the numerous compromises of the camera, which would be intolerable in anything but a Leica!
Other brands have compromises. Leica has features!
I wish I had more money to buy Leica, but I will have to wait. At the moment I'm saving to buy a new computer screen, my old one is utter rubbish. The other day I compared photographs taken by Leica I downloaded from the internet with similar photographs taken with my old camera, that I bought on ebay with one battery and a charger for about as much as Leica battery and a charger would cost and the pictures looked the same to me, I couldn't tell the difference, that's how terrible my screen is.
@@defqqq well, do your photos look good? If so, you’re golden!
@@tdemask they look great to me, but I'm sure it's because my broken computer screen cannot render those images produced with Leica. Professional photographers wouldn't spent so much money on it, if they could take as good looking pictures with cameras that are still too expensive for me, but cost 5000-6000 less than Leica
@@defqqq I would also buy a Leica but I am saving to buy a Lamborghini so I can be a better driver.
Awaiting the M11 Monochrome video!
incredible pictures 👏
Great photos. Nice pastel colours
Some genuinely beautiful photos, James!
Loved the minimalist photos, great job!🙂 With 61 MPs you have the freedom to crop from 28mm to 35 or even 50 (equiv. FoV), or from 50 to 85. So great lens choices, many applications.
these are some fantastic photos wow
Some beautiful shots remember me Luigi Ghirri’s pictures
The photos are brilliant! Really like your edits
Great video and awesome shots as usual, James. I appreciate getting your take on Leica rather than the more common street shooter or film photographer reviews. The M cameras are likely going to be something I always want but will never buy as a hobbyist, but I always enjoy seeing the photos they produce. Especially from a photographer as talented as yourself. Cheers!
Some of your best photos right there James !
Lol! Do it now - before I forget…! Tell me about it. Great video!
Well done! These images are really wonderful.
Incredible photos. Some of my favorite that you've ever taken. I'm curious how you feel shooting with the Leica vs. the Fuji. I have an X100V and an M10, and pretty much stopped using the X100V after getting the M10. I simply don't enjoy shooting with a non-rangefinder anymore
Isn’t the X100V a rangefinder? 🤔
@@masaytaka no it’s got an EVF. You can make it an OVF but it doesn’t have a rangefinder patch like the M10
I would love to see the x pro line of cameras give you the option for a full rangefinder experience. Not giving my hopes up….
I have a Leica M10 with 90/35/21mm lenses and a Fuji X-Pro2 with 56/23/16mm lenses. When I purchased the M10, it was supposed to replace the Pro2 as my main camera. However, to my surprise, I prefer shooting with the Pro2.
If you shoot with Leica, it does not matter how you fell. It's how impressed others are that you shoot with Leica.
Wow, the photos are amazing.
Great photos from the trip! 👌😃
Summarizing your remarks about the camera: rubbish 😛 Or at least full of quirks solved in other cameras a long time ago 😃
For the screen protector to stick you need to put the whole camera in the oven at 270⁰C for about 47 minutes. Works like a charm.
I thought they were iron on? That must be where I went wrong.
Beautiful shots
I'm not gonna talk about Abu Dhabi, I'm gonna talk about the M11. But again, this is absolutely not a gear channel. Can't emphasize that enough.
😂
Loved those shots of Abu Dhabi , your photography is great regardless of camera brand, but hey it's a nice camera 😊
This makes me really regret selling my Leica gear. I couldn't afford to keep it, but still. The experience is something else.
The photos this week are some of your best (at least in recent memory). So bright and airy, seems like you really found your groove in the post-processing.
Absolutely loved the pictures !
Stunning photos!!
Beautiful photos as always!
Ill put a reminder in my calender:
2 weeks
3 weeks
4 weeks
5 weeks
...
Looking forward to your reports. 😁
Good lord, stunning images!
1:43 is such an amazing photo to describe your "about something" mantra. Appart from the shapes just being pleasant, the woman in the photo immediately make me ask several questions! What is the weird structure the woman is standing on? Why is she standing there? Where is she pointing? Who is she looking at?
Love it!
I've been wanting a m10 for years now and after seeing your m11 images, it just makes me want the m11 haha! Great video man!
Amazing photos!
Cleanest photos in the game
Love to know about your image processing. These have a sort of Portra pushed a stop that i really enjoy.
I love those photos! The light there is magical, as is the architecture. I have the M11 as well. I suspect your finicky charging experience was due to the cable. One reason for the high cost of some Leica batteries (SL and Q series as well as the M11) is that they are and have to be bespoke because they act as part of the weather sealed bottom plates. As for dual card slots, I doubt there is room for a second slot. If you look at an exploded diagram, you’ll notice that compact body is absolutely crammed full of electronics and the rangefinder.
I would love to see James return to his roots with the backwards baseball cap for a video. Good times, that back-capping era.
Lovely photos 👍🏼
Great photos. Nice job on the video, subscribed
I recently got a used first gen Leica Q, and last weekend did a trip with that + X-Pro3 and a 27mm f2.8 on it. That proved to be a fantastic travel combo! Leica Q especially for tighter spaces and when there was less light, Fuji otherwise for weather resistance and supremely versatile focal length, which I definitely prefer to 35mm, but is a bit more forgiving compared to a 50mm equivalent.
Leicas, UAE trips... Feels quite far from how the channel was when I started to follow it... Still love your humor and the focus on the photographic process.
Rain and cheap cameras back soon :)
That bus shot is so cool!
Lovely non-gear video on this non-gear channel!
Joking aside though, love the video as always!
The minimalist urban landscape photos were really good. Although they looked a bit Fuji to me. But I was watching on an iPad so it was more about colour and composition (as it should be) than “Ooh! Look at those pixels!!”
I’ve got an M10-P (Reporter), with two batteries! Love it. Not sure I can justify moving up to a M11. Your images look great!
Always enjoy your videos. Great change of scenery in this one. Also just bought a GX1 because of you 😅
Those shots are lovely!
loved the shots in this one
Inconspicuous with a Lecia!!!!!!
Love the images!
Beautiful shots! I took a 28mm and 50mm with my Pentax MX for a year in Europe in 1980. Probably the most fun I’ve ever had with a camera. I guess no viewfinder would be a show stopper for me, though.
There is a viewfinder but it is an optical one so you can’t review photos you have already taken in bright light.
I like the pastel colours ! 🙂
Sounds like an interesting trip with your "pretty good" camera. I'm sticking with my R5. Although I'm not going to Abu Dhabi. ps. I sold all my old cameras and lenses to MPB and am very happy.
Love to see a review on the Voigtländer 50mm APO. I’m strongly considering it to pair with my 28mm when I pick up the M11 this summer.
Great that you kept it for a year or two 😂❤
the colors look great!
6:06 'Not too bad' from an Englishman is the same as 'So damn good, I literally have no complaints' for anyone else.
High praise indeed