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this was a good one to watch even for refresher, BTW, looks like you were at the Ft Lauderdale Riverwalk area?

Friends don’t let friends use F16. 😂😂😂

You’re an excellent teacher. Leica should be proud of you. Congrats!

Masterful! Well done!

I didn’t knew that Leica didn’t really change this technique since the M ones after WW2. The Fuji solution to this problem is much more elegant, more intelligent… and more 2024….😮

Great work as always!

That is the most worthwhile quarter of an hour's tutorial video I have watched for a long time. All of it was useful but for me the back and forth movement to nail fine focus is going to make a big difference to the rangefinder experience for me. I must admit I have been struggling a bit but you have inspired me to go out again and use all of these techniques with more confidence. Great video, thank you for posting.

Now that was a very useful video. Well done.

This was great, David! Hope this will become a regular series. It compliments the longer, deep dive discussions on the channel.

Great all-in-one lesson David! I've been using the M beginning with the M9 and now the M10, for me, I think the most valuable tip you've offered that was the greatest benefit to me was the rocking focus. Brilliant! I was guilty of trying to "fine-tune" the focus using the finger tab, but now I know better! I'll buy you a coffee the next time you're in Vietnam! Thank you David! As Josh said to you when reviewing my gear in the Show Us Your Kit episode last year, no, I do not have a farm! Hahaha! Cheers, Scott

Great video and advice. Thanks so much.

For estmating the middle distances I imagine a person laying down and call that six feet. Then I stack laying down persons.

A nice summary indeed! The other day, I realized that the minimum focus distance of 0.7 m is a great distance for taking selfie, so it's another way how to look at it :)

Excellent tips for a more efficient and effective rangefinder experience..thanks!

Liked it

Great video. Thanks for sharing

many thanks, clear and concise tutorial

12:45 - Bambi's friends playing tag in the background. Found that rather amusing. And what a nice peek at how beautiful it is where you guys live.

Great video. Thanks for all the tips. Does your comment of never shooting at F16 also apply to film cameras? I didn’t quite get that one.

I go to infinity automatically every time after taking a photo. So i only move the focus to the left.

This instruction is EXACTLY what I have been searching for. Thank you, David.

Thanks David . You are a great pedagog. When the subject is moving, and to get the perfect focus is not so easy , I close a bit the aperture to get a little more depth of field and have a kind of automatic correction of the lack of perfect focusing with the range finder. It is "zone focusing" but in a particular situation.

Very nicely done, compiling many useful tips in one place. Practice practice practice.

Thanks

Perfect timing. today I bought my m6. All thumbs up.

Please justify why should one spend a lot of money for an APO version when chromatic aberration can be simply corrected in post with one single click!

Don't forget to choose the correct diopter for the viewfinder. This can be a gamechanger

There's a much, much better way to focus using Leica lenses. As long as they don't contain moving elements, I just mount them on the TZM-02 on my Z8 and press the shutter button. Focus is done.

About the leica elmar R 100mm f/4 macro, I’ts a good lens , better than f2.8 or worse?

Very well made. Been shooting rangefinder cameras for more than 10 years, yet I still learned from this.

Another fabulous RDF video with useful tips even veteran rangefinder fans can benefit from. Many thanks, David!

This is great, but a ton of people will likely be using liveview if they have an m11 🤣

This video is so good it should be a charged lesson. Just got my Leica M and been practicing the last 8 hours and you've made my life so much easier. THANK YOU.

great video

Excellent and I want to add one more item; when focussing, always start from one end - preferably from infinity. It avoids the back and forth of turning the ring.

Excellent video for a new m owner

Rocking back forward is when you hit the sweet spot. Clarity and common sense personified. A model of how it should be done.

Great video thank you. I’m also looking for tips on metering. Something that always trips me up with my M10-P.

Say the distance to yourself in your head. That keeps the distance estimation separate from the tab position, which varies lens to lens and makes it easier to learn and remember. Best video on this subject I've ever seen. Way to go David.

Great video David! Very informative and concise. More of this please!

These are great advice. I had to learn these tips the hard way through lots of trial and many errors over many decades. You did it in 17 minutes. Well done.

Such a great video. The arms-length=0.7m point is 🤯 and pre-focusing using estimated distance is a great tip. I put both of these tips to use today after watching the video and already feel faster at focusing. Thanks for the great content as always

Thanks David, that was very well done as usual. I wish I was able to find something like this to watch when I bought my first M camera.

I'll give you the number 1 tip for best way to manual focusing Leica M. If you are using Glasses, get a Leica Correction Lens. Go to a Leica store and try what works best for you. Or, you just get rid of the M and get a Q :) I never looked back after I switched to Q. Great image quality with the 28mm Summilux plus the Macro capability.

David, thank you for this tutorial. Hope to see one on improving composition. Btw, is there a big jump in going from M10 to M11P? Would you sell your M9P plus M10 for M11P if u were thinking of upgrading to M11P?

A nice, comprehensive set of helpful hints. Maybe next time add a short view of the lens barrel with the distance scale explained? And how about giving distances in meters and feet for those of us who use the latter? Thanks for your post!

1,000,000 UA-cam videos on this topic covered in one, clear video

really impressive, thank you for the sharing!

world class video and communication, you are a master David