Waching daily Nov 28 2018

What's up YouTube, my name is Martin and

today, I want to talk about Leica M.

I've been using Leica a for more than a year and a half and I got it because I wanted to buy a rangefinder

camera, and I ended up with

M240. I have only one lens and that's all I have been using.

So this is kind of like mine minimalist setup for shooting. I'm gonna share with you what has been my experience and

what setting I use. So let's get started

So why

rangefinder? Unlike many reviewers. I have actually not shot too many cameras in my life. I

have started with Leica a D-Lux 109 and the reason back then was I liked the design and

it came together with a free copy of Lightroom and

that kind of justified the price for me back then what I was reading about cameras

I kind of felt like every company is trying so hard to chase the "decisive moment"

with higher and better ISO performance

more frames per second or

faster autofocus, and then there was a Leica M.

I kind of felt like when you go out fishing you can either take this all

fishing rod and do everything manually and

you're risking to miss a lot of things, but it takes some skill and you really have to think about the process and the

settings and so on. Now, I'm not saying you don't need skill to shoot DSLR but

for me it kind of felt like

having a shotgun in

comparison with an old fishing rod and you just shoot and spread and pick up the one shot out of the burst and

It depends, you know

like I definitely like the cameras like Sony A9 where you do those 20 frames per second and

I would definitely think about it in case let's say I would go to the Olympics and

I needed to deliver. So I guess it pretty much depends on

what you are using your camera for but for me and what I use it for

It's just not the case at the moment. So

Why M240 ?

When you want to get into the M digital system

you actually have a several options. It starts with M8 and goes all the way up to

recently released M10-D.

So I wanted to get a used Leica and I didn't want to get too narrow with my lens.

Not more than 50 millimeter. So when I actually found a great deal and got the 50mm lens.

I didn't consider getting

M8 because of its cropped sensor.

So I was deciding between M9 and M240 and I actually found

M240 that was just slightly more expensive than M9 and was actually almost new so that's why.

We can probably all agree M is beautiful camera. It's based

the design is based on M3 and

it remained more or less untouched and it has this cool retro look

especially the chrome finish. When you look at the camera. You can see there are three basic settings outside. You have focusing

aperture ring and shutter speed.

The cool thing is those can be set even when the camera is turned off unlike the old Leicas

this one is full of electronics. So

when you remove the bottom plate

you will find your memory card slot and

the battery. The camera will actually not work in a case the bottom plate is not connected to the camera.

I have actually sticked a small paper here with my

address and phone number and I don't know if this will ever help if I forget it somewhere

but I have those also on my laptop and my

external hard drive. Now when we are talking about the battery. I have actually never run out of battery

I think I get more than

six hundred shots

on a battery charge.

But it also depends on a temperature whenever you are using live view or

video. So you get this charger to charge your battery with your camera and it comes

together with the cable that connects right here.

One thing I have figure out when I'm traveling and I don't want to pack too many cables.

What you actually can do is you can take your iPhone

You can take your iPhone or MAC charger and you can use a part of it.

Plug it in like this.

Plug it in like this and

use it.

Or vice versa you can use big cable to charge your iPhone

or or Mac. One thing to note is the camera doesn't have an electronic shutter and

even though I would say it's pretty quiet

especially on street and

you can set it up all the way

to

4,000 or auto. A lot of people actually dislike the auto mode

but I mean those functions are there to help you and I also use it sometimes when

I'm not sure or just to figure out what

the camera suggests at the moment. It actually has a video button

I don't really know

Why you should want our video in this type of camera. It does not have an image stabilization,

no HDMI, no

mic input, only 25 frames per second while shooting 1080 and

no flat image profile, but you know, it's there and

The best camera is the one that you have with you, right?

So the cool thing is you can actually use the manual focus to create nice

focused to

out-of-focus shots

while using the focusing ring.

Not like you can do that with an iPhone

I like it his microphone even though I would place probably somewhere on the bottom or

somewhere where it's not

distracting or and visible. I mean, you will probably never use it as your main audio source, right?

But it's nice to have it

in case you are using this as your secondary camera

or if you

need to synchronize the sound in the post

The ISO has is dedicated button and you can change it using this wheel while you holding

the ISO button. It was actually a little confusing at the beginning

So the basic ISO is 200, but when I was watching, Torsten Overgaard

he said the dynamic range tops at

400 so that's good to know. Now when you check the viewfinder

you will notice you are not looking through the lens and then that way what you see is

not what you get due to the parallax. There are three types of marks in the viewfinder

left arrow right arrow and the dot. What they show us is -

you are either under or over exposed. At the beginning I had a little problem to remember whenever I shoot

over or underexpose.

So I actually taught myself a little trick. When you see the red arrow pointing to the left you either have to move

the upper part of your aperture ring to the left or

you need to adjust your shutter speed

to the left. If that make any sense to you or vice versa if you see the red arrow

pointing to the right you adjust it to the right or you can change your ISO.

The focusing is actually a little tricky at first

but after some time you will figure it out. As for the focusing you have few

options to approach it.

The easiest one is to bump up your ISO and use for example f/8, f/11 and

together with that when you set your focus to infinity you can kind of use this camera as a point-and-shoot

for the distance five meters and longer. You can also use zone focusing

when you figure out the distance according to

the F-stop you use and you actually see on the lens what distance is in the focus for each

F-stop. When you are focusing what you actually see in the viewfinder

is this small rectangle with the "ghost" image,

and the key is to line up both

the "ghost" image and what you actually see. Also a little tip here when you need to move your "ghost" image to the left you

can imagine you need to move the upper part of your focusing ring

to the left great way to focus on moving subjects is

actually

to start at infinity and

and then slowly as your subject moves towards you

you can move the focusing ring to the other side considering you are trying to focus on moving

subject that's moving towards you.

Because I think that's like 90% of shots you you're going to take. When you look at the back of the camera

you can see this this camera has dedicated Live View button and

I actually find quite useful, especially

for those low angle shots, but it also works for me as a light meter

I often just turn it on and

figure out what is the right speed for the shot

I want to create. I wouldn't probably use an EVF since I think it

kinda kills the whole point of having

the the viewfinder

rangefinder and especially when you have the option of Live View.

What's actually cool about this viewfinder is that you actually see around the borders

what you are shooting it's also a little similar when you are using the live view except what you see on the screen is actually

what you get. Now when I go through over the menu I use I would just point out some differences

otherwise, my setting is pretty standard. In the film mode. I

sometimes use

The vivid color profile because I like it's colors.

In my opinion it little oversaturates the red but it can be

corrected in the post and

it actually looks pretty cool. To be honest. I like this profile.

I use Lightroom and

treat my JPEGs the same way as the DNGs so it imports side by side and

that way I can often see the vivid colors and I often just edit the JPEG and

don't bottle with the DNG. Now. What I have been doing lately is using the black and white and

it's great too when you use the Live View, it's great

because you can see the composition a little better, but also

sometimes

during the post you just get more inspired

when seeing how the black and white shot is converted

so that's that. The other setting I use is actually the auto review.

I have it set to release button pressed.

So what it does is when you take a shot when you hold the shutter button

it actually

keeps the preview on the screen, so

this is kind of like a compromise between

not chipping and

and chipping :D actually, but what I use it for

is mostly when I go out and want to start shooting and I want to

set up my light meter and everything. I just take a shot and look at it on the screen and see whenever my

settings is right. It's overexposed underexposed or so. Other than that

I would like to mention I have my auto power off set to two minutes. So what I do when I'm out shooting I

leave the setting on

on a single shot and just leave the camera on my neck or in my hand or

wherever I have it and

what I do when I enter a scene I want to photograph is just lightpress

this shutter button and what it does is it wakes the camera

so it's ready within like a second or two and then

what I do it when I'm reaching for the camera

I just like press it whenever I put it to the eye and then I can just you know

ajust focus and shoot. So what is my setting when I usually go out and shoot?

I usually go out when there is plenty of light so my typical setting is

f 8.0 ISO 800 and then I

just either ajust shutter speed or if I'm getting like too low like under

1/180, I would say like under 1/180

I'm ajusting ISO. I rarely shoot at night

But when I do, I shoot wide open and I just bump the ISO

So that my shots are correctly exposed.

That's my experience.

Otherwise it quite doesn't work for me. As I said, I only have my 50mm lens and I

mostly use it for street photography

and sometimes portraits but I also use it for landscapes and cityscapes and

It's just I mean, it's not super convenient for cityscapes and landscapes since this is not the wide lens.

But when I want a wider shot, I just have to move a back little when I want to tighter shot. I just

need to move closer, but it's not like you cannot shoot cityscapes or landscapes with this one.

It's just I didn't want to get like more lenses. So the 50 is kind of like a

great compromise, I can shoot pretty much whatever I want with it. So let's talk about some pros and cons.

First what you're going to notice when you pick up this camera,

this camera is heavy and I mean you will find out as soon as you hold it in your hand, but

actually it is probably lighter than

the big DSLRs I

Think my combo of the body and the lens is like one kilogram

so it's like

you will feel it a little once you carry it for the whole day

It's not the end of the world, but you know, it's worth mentioning

it is not like the lightest thing. Might not be with

the other generations like M 10, M 10-D and so on. It does not have an auto focus

I mean that's obvious and

It's expensive.

Even though if you do not need the latest greatest

you can find use ones for pretty great deal. Now in the other hand. This camera is quite small

when you consider, this is a full-frame

It's great looking no doubts about that and it's actually pretty easy to use.

It does not have the autofocus and

I know I have mentioned it as a "minus"

but I think it's as weird as it sounds it actually is a good thing

it does not have this option like for example

Leica Q

or my D-Lux 109 where you can kind of have both. Like the auto focus and the

manual focus. To be honest when you have the autofocus

I don't know about you, but I would actually not use my manual focus that much. I mean almost like never.

Also, like how many of you who have like this option to have the manual focus and auto focus

are using the manual focus except for like

stage portraits or macro.

So I actually think

by this lens and the body not

having the auto focus it actually forces you to learn it.

So also one thing to mention a lot of people when they are talking about Leicas

and

when they usually pick the black ones they talk about this camera being stealth. Now I

kind of think that doesn't make sense like nowadays

because. When you think about it

whenever you pick up like a small smartphone or or anything that you just put close to your eye

nowadays

everyone is going to notice you are taking photo. Because everyone is like so used to it

someone is just taking like a smartphone and shooting so

this might have been thruth like

50 years ago when Cartier-Bresson

had this camera and then half of the people never saw a camera and then it was black and

we could say it was kind of like stealth, but nowadays. I think you're going to be noticed in

99.9% of

when you are taking a shot.

So I actually think having the chrome version

this kind of like retro looking camera. You're going to be more stealth in terms of

not

not being noticed, but in terms of

people will not mind

you are taking the shot because

they will usually think like you're an artist or this is a film camera or whatever.

So I think it's kind of true

this camera being stealth but not for the reason like it's small and compact but for the reason it's just

tolerated by the people who you are taking a shot off. So should you get Leica M?

So if you are totally new I would recommend to loan one

before you buy it

so, you know what you are buying you can get a cheap option with Leica. M8 and

Voigtländer Lens, but it's hard to recommend this since I think

M8 is already discontinued and it would be

expensive to repair it eventually. In my opinion if you can find the m240 for a great price

It's actually still great. Even though it has been released more than five years ago. With every new M

they introduced every generation gets slightly better

lighter faster

but it's also more expensive. So it's up to you how much you want to spend?

Can this be your only camera? I mean it can

if you don't purchase any other camera, it can definitely be your only camera :D. In my case. I have been using this camera and

my iPhone for video and that's pretty much it.

So it depends on what you need a camera for. The last thing I want to point out is

this camera won't make you a great photographer. That's something you actually have to learn so it's not like you

buy this camera and you become this, you know, Henri Cartier-Bresson or something.

Thank you for watching. Let me know in the comments.

Do you have like I am how do you like it?

Or do you consider getting into the M system. Once again, thank you for watching and I will see you in my next video

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What is your pineapple? - Duration: 1:33.

Pineapple became really synonymous with architecture

in colonial America and you probably have seen it

in other places on things like welcome mats

or on doorknockers as a symbol of welcome and hospitality.

Please come and be my guest.

So I guess, what is your pineapple?

What, not as like you know, a symbol of extravagance

but as a symbol of saying you know what?

You matter, I see you.

You are welcome here.

What is that symbol?

You know maybe it is making eye contact with people.

As you are going out your day to day business.

Maybe it is going over to somebody's house and saying

I see you, I have come to visit you

and shown you hospitality in this way.

Maybe it's here today with your nametag on saying,

saying this is awkward for me but this is my sign

of welcome to say please talk to me.

I want to talk to you, let's be in each others lives.

Maybe it's bringing coffee to your boss

or bringing coffee to your employees.

Maybe it's today saying hey,

do you wanna get lunch after the service or brunch?

Actually just going out of your way to have

a hospitable heart and posture, attitude.

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WHICH IS THE "BEST" COLONOSCOPY PREP? - Duration: 13:15.

need to be cleaned out for so that's not gross hello so this oh sorry about this

this situation there yep you've like there from my window but this is

probably going to be the oddest video I have ever made and sorry if I look like

a hot mess that's because I am but I also don't have like bottles anymore for

this I didn't even start with saying what I'm going to be talking about so

I've done in the past what is this November so past 11 months

I have done three separate like colonoscopy and like intestine preps

basically four different tests I had two colonoscopies and a pill cam which all

three need to be you need to be cleaned out for so that's not gross well I've

done three separate preps but I never did the same one twice so I thought I

would share my thoughts on all of them and which one I think is the best but I

mean there really is no good option there's just least bad options cuz you

never really want what's happened going to happen to you you know gonna spend a

lot of time in the bathroom to happen I'm just good in closer a little bit but

I thought I would share my thoughts and maybe it will help you and your I don't

know I don't even know if you really have the option cuz all three times my

doctor just told me which one to do and then I did so I also since I don't have

the things with me anymore I will find pictures you on the internet

or I will try to find pictures from when I did them and then put them in the

video and I talked about them like right here or something like that so oh my

gosh I'm so old would it be weird if I put on my like Eskimo jacket even though

I'm sitting inside okay I'm prepared now I don't even think it's

actually cold I think it's like 70 probably 70 65 degrees just make the

outside I don't know it doesn't get cold here that's sure

so the first where I did last December yeah last December was like the big like

one I think it's a plane a one gallon jug the picture will be right here so

you know what I'm talking about but you like fill it up with water and then you

have to shake the jug like it feels like you're gonna shake your whole body out

of commission when you're shaking that thing is it's so heavy

and so that one is I say second on my list of so it's in the middle it's not

the worsens off best that one was so salty I kind of felt like I was a deer

at a Salt Lick but that one it was like so much liquid that it made mice and

like such a short amount of time that it made me feel like my insides were

ripping apart like I was just crying crying crying I there's a vlog of that

and then it made me nauseous but I didn't throw

that time and that one I'd say worked pretty well given that things were still

a move in the next morning when I needed to wake up so that one I don't that one

wasn't too bad it was just really really really gross and then the liquid was

also kind of thick but they all are so that's the downfall of all of them is

that especially if you have like like me or you don't like things to be thick and

sticky and you're like what is that so the second one that I did I did in

August or something anyways doesn't matter what time of year

you do it it's all the same but for me that was the worst one um that one with

I didn't even say which one it was but it's the Duke Laxmi relax the

Gatorade prep so you you take two large Gatorades like that 32 ounces or

something I don't really know I just know but it was terrible and you put

them in a large pitcher with an entire bottle of miralax of 14 doses are 256 or

something like that grams of miralax and that kind of makes it kind of it makes

this liquid really thick and grody but so you take the duke locks a few hours

before and then you drink that for about three hours or something or you're

supposed to drink it over three hours again I cut a liquid but this time I

didn't feel like I was ripping apart because I got really really really I

don't even I wouldn't I wasn't even nauseous it was just I got really really

sick and so for that one PSA for all of my dairy allergy friends out there Duke

Lex is lactose based so that it's actually a good

design in that is lactose based if you're not allergic to dairy because

most people are lactose intolerant so being lactose intolerant kind of causes

you to have diarrhea when you take the pills but that didn't work out so well

for me given that I have a dairy allergy I broke out in hives had trouble

breathing ended up having to take a bunch of Benadryl and projectile-vomited

all of the crap out literally I had finished drinking I had almost finished

drinking the whole mare lacks Gatorade situation and I was sitting there on the

couch my mom got up and got a bowl cuz she could just see the look and then I

wasn't even know should I just sort of like projectile vomiting everywhere it

was gross so don't recommend nap for um

dairy allergy people out there but I think other than that it would have been

fine other than the projectile vomit but

because oh my I don't know my innards don't really like do things the way they

should I threw up even food that I had eaten like a day before nasty it was

saltine crackers they looked and tasted just like the saltine crackers did when

they went down cuz i again i also don't chew my food very well another downfall

to me helping me is that you just don't cheer food very well and that one also i

oh since it since i threw up all the prep i did it didn't like yo through me

so luckily if my large intestine didn't have like stuff in it a dirt when they

did the cam like that um colonoscopy but it did like two hours later when i came

home i pooped out salad don't there's not an easier way that's

like less graphic to say that and these lights are kind of I don't know they're

sorry my window is open because I use my window lighting for this but I've never

had this problem before of it putting shadows on my face but whatever so that

was the worst one in my opinion because ain't nobody want to be projectile

vomiting everywhere but I feel like if you didn't have that problem you would

that would have been the best one because it it just I don't know the last

one that I've done is the magnesium citrate magnesium citrate I know I

looked it up in a blog or I looked at for a vlog what oh my gosh when I was

talking about it at first but I have since forgot how you're supposed to

properly say that so that one in my opinion for me was the best one the

little magnesium citrate whatever is only a 10 ounce little glass bottle

thing that you have to drink I am pretty sure I did that wrong you're supposed to

mix it into some water though and also but it was like that it tasted gross it

tasted like you're drinking lemonade concentrate or something or like taking

the powder of lemonade and just putting on your mouth gross but since it was

only 10 ounces of that and then drinking like extra fluid so that when it starts

to like clean out your innards you don't become dehydrated which drink more than

I did but that one was the best one it was

it's a little like lemon flavored drink it's kind of nasty but it's okay um for

that I definitely recommend drinking like ten times what I drink I drink

that and maybe I don't even know how much I drank during that day like maybe

a gallon of water but I definitely I couldn't drink more because I was so

dehydrated the next morning I almost vomited in the the gi's office because

people ministers for the pail can that's why I wasn't dead like in it and awesome

we sent her anything but the I almost vomited at the gi's office from being

dehydrated and it being hot and well my body weights also pretty low right now

so that also attributed to my dehydration of vomiting almost vomiting

situation but so basically to cap to recap what I've said though but the best

one is the magnesium citrate although I don't know how well that actually cleans

you out because things were kind of normal still as normal as my body can

get like even the morning of sounds like um but so that one is the easiest prep

to do I don't know how well it works so they all have their downfalls the next

best one is the jug one even though that is disgusting but having it be

disgusting is easier than or and having you kind of feel like you're being

ripped apart is I I feel is better than projectile vomiting everywhere and so

then the dukkha Laxmi relax Gatorade thing is in my opinion the worst one I'm

sure there's other preps out there cuz I can't imagine they're only being three

but I have not done those other prep so I can't give information on those but

here's there's just information or that opinions that I have from doing the prep

three times so I'm trying to screw out of those lights but thanks for watching

and I'll see you next time bye