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I recently purchased a Leica rangefinder camera with a few lenses and have spent the last few days getting used to manual focus. The rangefinder focus system is easier than I expected and the lenses are really sharp.

I am going on a few overseas trips over the next couple of months and couldn't be bothered lugging around my Canon 5D MKII with its heavy lenses. Rangefinder cameras are much smaller, lighter and the lenses are tiny in comparison.

It will be interesting to see how the image quality compares to my Canon.

Here are a couple of shots taken today at Norwest Park.
35mm Lens f/4.0


50mm Lens f/5.7

Did you get the M9?

How long did you have to wait?

Hi Bob, I didn't really have to wait at all, I was at a conference in Innsbruck and walked into the local camera shop (Miller Optik) they happened to be the Leica dealer and had a new M9 in stock so I sort of bought it on impulse (along with a few lenses). When I got back to Australia I spoke with the local importer (Adeal) and they tell me they might not have any more until May.....

Congrats on the purchase, I am sure you will have heaps of fun with it

As a fellow Leica owner (not that I use mine often enough), what lenses did you pick up ?

And congrats on the purchase, I found it took a while to get use to doing more thinking for myself rather then the camera doing it (but mines manual everything!).

By the time I paid for the camera I could only afford the less expensive lenses in the Leica range. I picked up the following:

35mm f/2.5 Summarit-M
50mm f/2.0 Summicron-M
75mm f/2.5 Summarit-M
90mm f/2.5 Summarit-M