{"id":1498,"date":"2009-09-02T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2009-09-02T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T04:34:33","slug":"triumphs-and-failures-with-leica-m7-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Triumphs and Failures with Leica M7 (First Time)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rangefinder cameras are a new thing for me to use as they are not practical for me to shell out money for especially the Leica&#8217;s. But I do think the M series are more comfortable to use than the Mamiya <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rangefinder_camera\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\">rangefinders<\/a>, but i still had lots of blurry pictures, partially due to long exposures at night.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520026.JPG\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1497\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=1497\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520026.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,398\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;QSS-32_33&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"27520026\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520026.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520026.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1497\" title=\"27520026\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520026.JPG?resize=600%2C398\" alt=\"27520026\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520021.JPG\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1496\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=1496\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520021.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,398\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;QSS-32_33&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"27520021\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520021.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520021.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1496\" title=\"27520021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520021.JPG?resize=600%2C398\" alt=\"27520021\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520025.JPG\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1495\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=1495\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520025.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,398\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;QSS-32_33&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"27520025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520025.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520025.JPG?fit=600%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1495\" title=\"27520025\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520025.JPG?resize=600%2C398\" alt=\"27520025\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520024.JPG\" class=\"link-to-image js-link-to-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1494\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?attachment_id=1494\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520024.JPG?fit=398%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"398,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;QSS-32_33&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 Richard Louissaint&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"27520024\" data-image-description=\"\" 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But I do think the M series are more comfortable to use than the Mamiya rangefinders, but i still had lots of blurry pictures, partially &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap-excerpt-more\"><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/?p=1498\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscaping","category-portrait","post--featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/wp-content\/audio\/27520026.JPG?fit=600%2C398&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EmB-oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardlouissaint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}