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ODDITIES FROM PHOTO AND LEICA LAND This blog was created by its main editor, Heinz Richter. Heinz has been using Leica equipment ever since his father gave him a Leica III with 50mm f/2 Summar for his fifth birthday. Heinz grew up in the photography business of his father in Germany. Now retired, he used to own his own business, GMP....

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-hidden-gem-in-leica-lens-lineup.html

A HIDDEN GEM IN THE LEICA LENS LINEUP This blog was created by its main editor, Heinz Richter. Heinz has been using Leica equipment ever since his father gave him a Leica III with 50mm f/2 Summar for his fifth birthday. Heinz grew up in the photography business of his father in Germany. Now retired, he used to own his own business, GMP....

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/whats-in-my-camera-bag-and-why.html

WHAT’S IN MY CAMERA BAG AND WHY This blog was created by its main editor, Heinz Richter. Heinz has been using Leica equipment ever since his father gave him a Leica III with 50mm f/2 Summar for his fifth birthday. Heinz grew up in the photography business of his father in Germany. Now retired, he used to own his own business, GMP....

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/leica-introduces-new-metal-gray-paint.html

LEICA INTRODUCES NEW METAL GRAY PAINT FINISH This blog was created by its main editor, Heinz Richter. Heinz has been using Leica equipment ever since his father gave him a Leica III with 50mm f/2 Summar for his fifth birthday. Heinz grew up in the photography business of his father in Germany. Now retired, he used to own his own business, GMP....

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/one-hundred-yellow-candles.html

ONE HUNDRED YELLOW CANDLES With the exception of a few, extremely valuable pieces, the entire collection was sold to Leica. But I have no detailed information about what all it contained. When I had a chance to visit the Leica archives, our guide unfortunately had only limited time. That prevented us from getting a closer loo...

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/rangefinder-focusing-in-autofocus-world.html

RANGEFINDER FOCUSING IN AN AUTOFOCUS WORLD Not really, because you do this only once and then just compose and shoot.I often use a 15mm lens. I always use hyperfocal settings. Even wide open the depth of field ranges from 3 feet to infinity. This increases to 1.5 feet to infinity at f/8 and 0.5 feet to infinity at f/16, meaning that in virtu...

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/realistic-real-world-leica-lens.html

REALISTIC, REAL WORLD LEICA LENS PERFORMANCE This blog was created by its main editor, Heinz Richter. Heinz has been using Leica equipment ever since his father gave him a Leica III with 50mm f/2 Summar for his fifth birthday. Heinz grew up in the photography business of his father in Germany. Now retired, he used to own his own business, GMP....

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/creating-new-photograph.html

CREATING A NEW PHOTOGRAPH I am a firm believer that photographs straight out of the camera are just a beginning. Ansel Adams is still perfectly correct, even in the digital age, when he said, "the negative (digital file) is just the score, the final print is the performance."

https://gmpphoto.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-elusive-digital-leica-m7.html

THE ELUSIVE DIGITAL LEICA M7 This blog was created by its main editor, Heinz Richter. Heinz has been using Leica equipment ever since his father gave him a Leica III with 50mm f/2 Summar for his fifth birthday. Heinz grew up in the photography business of his father in Germany. Now retired, he used to own his own business, GMP....

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