The Leica M Photographer: Photographing with Leica's Legendary Rangefinder Cameras Hardcover – Illustrated, June 15, 2015

Ah, more Leica history. Outdated and needing an update but all the writers of books on Leica seem to have passed and no one is updating the original work.

More like an interesting series of articles on photography. Good photography, but not exceptional. If you want something on how to use a Leica M (what can you need to know that is not obvious?) this is not your book.

Upside: a beautiful hardbound book of engaging physical dimensions with high-quality photo reproduction. A few useful insights and inspirations here and there (but too few).Downside: a meandering memoir of doubtful appeal to the Leica crowd featuring mostly amatuer tips and oft-mediocre images of uninteresting subjects, garish flash technique and lamentable, hyper-saturated blacks in B&W digital photography. In fairness, a few of the images are of artistic distinction.While the book is clearly a labor of love of the author's journey, the art of photography and the Leica experience, nothing can quite overcome its limitations. Not even the tie-in the Leica brand. Perhaps, a next book will vault into a truly compelling contribution to the unique aspects of rangefinder photography and its endless applications.

Although this book is not specific to the M model it is a good testament about the company itself. I did not know that Leica specializes in street photography.

This book is more a diary than anything close to how to use a Leica M system. I barely learned from it. I was expecting more insights and tricks knowing that the photographer featured has 20 or so more years using a Leica M system. Not worth the buy. I wish I can return this.I felt robbed with this. Sadly.

This little book would be more appropriately distributed as a Leica marketing brochure. Don't expect to come away with any more than a glimpse at the capabilities of a Leica M with 35, 50, and 75mm lenses. The quality of the images in the Kindle version are not very good (I have not seen the print version). It would be nice to have a link to the author's published portfolio to fully appreciate the points that he is trying to make.

This is a book about photography - it's not a supplement for any Leica camera _ rather, the author explores photographic ideas in the context of Leica!Great job - I bought the Kindle version to read and after reading it, I want the printed version too.Excellent book!

I like this book. It is a sort of how to book combined with a selection of photographs taken using the Leica M rangefinder system.