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My first color film with my Leica M3 camera and its Leitz Summicron normal lens, on May 9, 2024 at the Parc deal Tête d'Or, Lyon, France.
The Leica M3 camera was loaded with a 36-exposure Kodak ProImage 100 color negative film. The Summicron lens was equipped with a Hoya HMC AUV screw-on 39mm protective filter plus the Leitz shade hood. For the last two pictures I used a push-on 42mm FOCA POLA filter (restored with a new polarizing glass). Expositions were determined for 100 ISO using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas.
FOCA POLA filter
Parc de la Tête d'Or, May 9, 2024
69006 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed by a local lab service using the standard Kodak C-41 protocol. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures. All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg.
About the camera and the lens :
This Leica M3 circa 1956 (Ref. Leitz ISUMO), double stroke, was sold to me with a Leitz Wetzlar Summicron collapsible normal lens 1:2 f=5cm of the same period equipped with a 39mm screw-on protective filter, a 42mm push-on Leica lens cap and an original Leitz shade hood (Ref. Leitz IROOA).
The camera was serviced in Paris, France, in 2018 by Gérard Métrot at Photo-Suffren, (a Leica boutique) who worked on the maintenance of camera's of famous French photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. The camera was inspected by Odéon-Photo, Paris, another historic Leica place in Paris, in April 2024.
I sourced at the same time in Germany a stunning Leitz Leica leather bag (Ref; Leitz IDCOO) of the same model that appeared on the back cover page go the Leica brochure year 1954. This bag can accommodate the camera and a mounted Leica-Meter type M. The interior in covered with a carmin velvet in perfect condition.
The Leica M3 is one of the most iconic range-finder 35mm camera of the 50's and the 60's. It was produced in Wetzlar, Germany, in different versions at 226178 exemplars, between 1954 (n° 700000) and 1966 (n° 1164865, www.summilux.net/materiel/Leica-M3) . The Leica M3 was the result of the study of a "super-Leica" that was started before WWII and only achieved in the 50'S.
The greater improvement of the M3 compared the classical Leica's was in a magnificent and very complex range-finder combined to the view finder permitting the framing with the two eyes open, integrating the frame in the real and normal vision. The shutter integrates too the normal and the slow speeds in the same barillet. The film advance of this version of Leica M3 is also the typical "double-stroke" advance that was exclusive to the Leica M3 first versions.
The camera was transported to me from Paris to Lyon, France on April 26, 2024 and the bag arrived the day after.
This the first color film with my lens Auto Miranda 1:2.8 f=105mm (year 1975) that I own since 2022. In Lyon, France, on June 13, 2023, accompanied by my SLR Miranda Auto Sensorex EE.(year 1972).
The camera was loaded with a color negative film Kodak ProImage 100 and configured with the regular pentaprism eye-level finder. The 105mm lens was also equipped during the photo session with a Nikon L38 anti-UV filter and a Nikon HS-4 metal shade hood specific of my Nikkor-P lens 1:2.5 f=105mm.
The film was exposed for 100 ISO following the readings of the camera (measuring mode "S") or of a Minolta Autometer III fitted with a 10° finder. Typically at I used the 1/250 to 1/1000s and apertures of 1/2.8 to 8.
Parc de la Tête d'Or, June 13, 2023
69006 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed the same day by a local lab service using the C-41 protocol. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera :
This camera was initially sold to its first owner on March 15, 1972 in Abbeville, France, and resold as a second hand by "Photo Ciné Saint Lazare", Paris, France one year later at spring 1973.
The camera was sold to me in March 2022 with the three finders available, three lenses Miranda Auto E, 1:1.8 f=50 mm, 1:2.8 f=28 mm, 1:2.8 f=105 mm all equipped with Miranda Skylight 52 mm filters.
EE stands for "Electric Eye", a system of diaphragm automated by the circuitry operating two CdS cells located behind the reflex mirror and making the photometry independent of the finders. The Miranda EE has two measuring mode : the pondered A (A as "Ambiant") and the S (spot) with the possibility to "memorize" the light value standing the release button at mid course as on modern camera's. the whole photometric system is fully functional on this camera and gives reading similar to a trusted external silicium electronic photometer (Minolta Auto Meter III).
This the first color film with my lens Auto Miranda 1:2.8 f=105mm (year 1975) that I own since 2022. In Lyon, France, on June 13, 2023, accompanied by my SLR Miranda Auto Sensorex EE.(year 1972).
The camera was loaded with a color negative film Kodak ProImage 100 and configured with the regular pentaprism eye-level finder. The 105mm lens was also equipped during the photo session with a Nikon L38 anti-UV filter and a Nikon HS-4 metal shade hood specific of my Nikkor-P lens 1:2.5 f=105mm.
The film was exposed for 100 ISO following the readings of the camera (measuring mode "S") or of a Minolta Autometer III fitted with a 10° finder. Typically at I used the 1/250 to 1/1000s and apertures of 1/2.8 to 8.
Parc de la Tête d'Or, June 13, 2023
69006 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed the same day by a local lab service using the C-41 protocol. The film was then digitalized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures.
All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera :
This camera was initially sold to its first owner on March 15, 1972 in Abbeville, France, and resold as a second hand by "Photo Ciné Saint Lazare", Paris, France one year later at spring 1973.
The camera was sold to me in March 2022 with the three finders available, three lenses Miranda Auto E, 1:1.8 f=50 mm, 1:2.8 f=28 mm, 1:2.8 f=105 mm all equipped with Miranda Skylight 52 mm filters.
EE stands for "Electric Eye", a system of diaphragm automated by the circuitry operating two CdS cells located behind the reflex mirror and making the photometry independent of the finders. The Miranda EE has two measuring mode : the pondered A (A as "Ambiant") and the S (spot) with the possibility to "memorize" the light value standing the release button at mid course as on modern camera's. the whole photometric system is fully functional on this camera and gives reading similar to a trusted external silicium electronic photometer (Minolta Auto Meter III).