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With a price tag that places it in the realm of the aficionado who appreciates fine quality and stylish good looks, the Leica M9 is the world's most compact full-format digital camera system and carries the 100-year heritage of the original Ur-Leica film camera into the digital age. Written by expert photographers, Ammonites Expanded Guide to the camera explains it in complete detail, providing a comprehensive users manual that includes a step-by-step guide to the cameras basic and advanced functions, professional guidance, advice and practical tips, as well as a pull-out quick-reference guide card. Professional photographer David Taylor explains how to get the very best from this modern classic.
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David Taylor is an award-winning landscape and travel photographer from Hexham in Northumberland. His work has taken him all over the world, from the sun-kissed beaches and azure seas of Zanzibar to the icy wastes of the Arctic Circle, but his first love remains the wild countryside and rugged coastline of his home county, which he has photographed extensively.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book sadly redundant. While others may find it slightly more useful, I doubt there is a single person on earth for whom this book is correctly targetted.
It's a combination of
1. an introduction to digital photography
2. an introduction to Adobe Lightroom
3. an instruction book for the Leica M9.
While 2 & 3 make sense to some extent since buying an M9 gives you rights to Lightroom for your RAW processing, item one is aimed at someone who has never picked up a DSLR before let alone a Rangefinder.
I've been using Lightroom since the day is was launched since Adobe bought the company which made my preferred RAW processing engine, so item 2 for me was also redundant. Only item 3 was relevant, but since I'd already downloaded the camera instrcutions from the net, it too was redundant.
So the perfect buyer here has only ever owned a cheap compact camera, has never done their own digital RAW processing, and yet wants to skip owning a DSLR, and go straight to the Leica, costing 2 - 3 times as much as the best Nikon and Canon DSLRs. It's be like the household gardener branching out into diamond mining because "it's all diggin', innit?"
Caveat Emptor!
It's a combination of
1. an introduction to digital photography
2. an introduction to Adobe Lightroom
3. an instruction book for the Leica M9.
While 2 & 3 make sense to some extent since buying an M9 gives you rights to Lightroom for your RAW processing, item one is aimed at someone who has never picked up a DSLR before let alone a Rangefinder.
I've been using Lightroom since the day is was launched since Adobe bought the company which made my preferred RAW processing engine, so item 2 for me was also redundant. Only item 3 was relevant, but since I'd already downloaded the camera instrcutions from the net, it too was redundant.
So the perfect buyer here has only ever owned a cheap compact camera, has never done their own digital RAW processing, and yet wants to skip owning a DSLR, and go straight to the Leica, costing 2 - 3 times as much as the best Nikon and Canon DSLRs. It's be like the household gardener branching out into diamond mining because "it's all diggin', innit?"
Caveat Emptor!
Format:Paperback
i have a number of Leica based books and recently bought Brian Blowers guide on the M8/M9. I liked that guide but in my opinion this is a far better researched book and the way it is set out means you can pick and choose what chapters you read. it covers other areas too like lens, flash and using Lightroom. In the later case if you buy a new Leica you can get Lightroom free so its a good idea to add a chapter to the book.
The book now sits in my camera bag and its small light and informative.
I like it.
The book now sits in my camera bag and its small light and informative.
I like it.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a pocket size guide to the Leica M9.
What the description doesn't make clear is that it's in full colour throughout, printed on quality glossy paper.
It's about an exhaustive a guide to the M9 and its accessories as you could wish for; it also includes information and advice about focusing, metering, using histograms etc. And there's a substantial chapter about using Adobe Lightroom.
It will be a while before I can afford the M9, in the meantime this guide keeps me drooling!
Highly recommended.
What the description doesn't make clear is that it's in full colour throughout, printed on quality glossy paper.
It's about an exhaustive a guide to the M9 and its accessories as you could wish for; it also includes information and advice about focusing, metering, using histograms etc. And there's a substantial chapter about using Adobe Lightroom.
It will be a while before I can afford the M9, in the meantime this guide keeps me drooling!
Highly recommended.
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