We’d like to share our experiences with the Leica M9 which we used for the first time for a fashion shoot instead of the Hasselblad H3D-II which is a great cam of course. The reason for using the Leica M9 was to [...]
We have realized one of our biggest dreams and finally bought the legendary Leica Noctilux lens for our M9. We could grab one from 1991 through eBay.
We used the Leica M9 for the first time in our latest fashion project “Rebel Souls”. It was a shy little test just before we began with the actual shooting. We put on our Summicron M 1:2/50 from 1994 and Marie-Louise took some pictures of Nici who brought us the nice car. The strobes were [...]
As of today we start a new series called “The Experiment – Leica M9 for Fashion Photography”. As you might know, the Leica M9 isn’t a typical camera used by fashion photographers. In fact, we could only find one serious photographer using a Leica M8 for some of his fashion work:
