Its been just over a couple of years now that a good friend of mine introduced me to street photography. Since then I have grown to love this genre of photography. I initially started with a Fuji X100V, a camera which I've had for a few years but purchased it as an everyday camera to document my family life and more recently street photography. It's a wonderful camera but my constant urge to change lens made me want more than just a 35mm equivalent fixed lens.

Then last year I purchased the my OM Systems OM3, which is an amazing camera full of the latest tech and it had interchangeable lenses! It has served me well as a do it all camera along with my Canon R5. With my love of street photography, I wanted to be more connected to the images I capture and not to just let the camera do all the work. I've been looking at alternatives to my other systems especially the Leica cameras for a while but wasn't sure about the range finder experience as there was no autofocus and all the lenses are fully manual focus! I also considered if this system would fit into my style of photography. After much thought and a hefty chunk of cash emptied from my bank account, I decided to go with Leica M10-P. The lenses I chose were from Voigtlander, the 28mm f2 APO Lanthar and the 50mm f1.5 Nokton ii SC.

This camera has a steep learning curve and I knew with using the camera it would make me work to obtain my images with lots of hits and misses. I'll let you know how I get on with my initial thoughts below!

This was pretty straight forward as I used the 28mm f2 lens stopped down to f8 with the zone focusing method. This is were my focus is set to a predetermined area, for example from 2 meters to 10 metres which ensure everything in between that parameter is in focus. Image quality was very good with everything sharp and in focus for most of the time with a few missed focus, surprisingly! On a wide angle lens like a 28mm lens, focusing is a bit more forgiving so it was a bit easier to acquire focus as the depth of field is larger.

In this situation I used the 50mm F1.5 lens for low light photography. I quickly found out that zone focusing and manually focusing at 1.5 is extremely difficult due to the thin plain of focus. I had to capture images at f5.6 to f4 and bump up the ISO to get reasonably expectable focus. This was no easy task and I got a lot of missed focused images initially, till I managed to adjust to the lens and find its sweet spot. Here are some of the images below.

These are just some of my initial images with the Leica M10-P so if you like the images please do follow me on my journey on my Socials.