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Leica Talks to 10 Photographers About How They Use the M Camera

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01/06/2015
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Last Updated on 01/06/2015 by Chris Gampat

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For their 60th anniversary celebration, Leica UK has released 10 different video interviews talking with famous photographers about how they’ve used the Leica M camera. Some of the photographers have used them for many years while others only just a couple, but they all talk about documenting daily occurrences in life with the camera. What they’re all doing is shooting candids and doing street photography.

The Leica M series of cameras have a long and venerable history in photography with many of them being in the hands of photojournalists, documentary photographers, wedding photographers and street photographers. They’re designed to capture everyday life. But eventually the SLR would overtake them due to their through the lens view and wider selection of lenses–particularly zooms.

More than any other camera, the Leica M has mostly retained the same timeless shape and look–and they’re easily discernable anywhere you go.

Leica’s interviews with 10 photographers are after the jump.

Peter Marlow

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Peter Marlow from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Sarah Lee

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Sarah Lee from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Ian Llewellyn

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Ian Llewellyn from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Matt Stuart

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Matt Stuart from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Paul Fuller

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Paul Fuller from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Olaf Willoughby

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Olaf Willoughby from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Tom Stoddart

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Tom Stoddart from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Matt Humphrey

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Photographer Matt Humphrey from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Kelly Preedy

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Kelly Preedy from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

Stuart Franklin

Celebrating 60 Years of the legendary Leica M with Stuart Franklin from Leica Camera UK on Vimeo.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.