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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Parc de la Tête d'Or, May 9, 2024
Serre Victoria
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.
Taken in and around Christchurch, up the Bridle Path, and out at Castle Hill on a Canon EOS 300 with the 28-80mm kit lens on Kodak ProImage 100. Mostly unedited to keep the look of the film - I love it but it’s a little washed out for my tastes! I have a roll of Portra 800 in the Canon now, and some Ilford IP4 Super in my new Fujica AX-1 - I’m excited to see the results of both!
A first color film with my newly-arrived FOCA Universel "RC », ultimate and last evolution 1962 of the French range-finder 35mm FOCA Universel camera's (1948-1963) .
The camera was loaded with a Kodak ProImage 100 36-exposure film. It was exposed for 100 ISO ISO using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder. The OPLAR lens lens was equipped with a a generic cylindrical shade hood and a FOCA AUV 42mm push-on filter.
Jardin Botanique de Lyon September 20, 2023
Parc e la Tête d'Or
69006 Lyon
France
After exposure, the film was processed by a local lab service using the C41 process. I digitized then the film 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 Vivo Y76 color pictures.
About the camera and the lens :
Only a bit more than 2000 FOCA URC were produced in the O.P.L. (« Optique et Précision de Levallois » S.A.) in Châteaudun, Eure, France, in 1962 and 1963 before stopping definitively the manufacturing of the curtain-shutter camera’s. O.P.L. company produced overall 30.000 FOCA Universel in different versions starting from 1948. The FOCA Universel RC is considered as the most beautiful FOCA ever produced in France. A series of 102 FOCA Universel RC were provided to the French Navy "Marine Nationale" taken straight from the production line.
The evolution of the FOCA Universel to the « RC » version included a complete new system of wide viewfinder at 1:1 ratio with collimation in orange color and coupled full parallax compensation. I got the camera on September 9, 2023 at the photo fair of the Photography Museum of Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure, France. It took about 3 months of reflexion and discussion with a retailer to take the decision. The camera was provided with the normal 5-lens OPLAR optics 1:2.8 f=5cm of the same period (model-6 version-10, 1961) with front cap and FOCA AUV 42mm push-on filter, the specific URC ever-ready leather bag in perfect condition, and the original edition of the user manual.