Everyone goes through phases in life and well it's time for me to have a go and use a film camera. Whilst I am at it why not just go for manual focus and pick up a Leica. If I am going to do it properly (well to some purists) this is the way to do it. One BIG note, and that is I am not using an all Leica kit !! Using a Leica M6 that comes with TTL (ok that is cheating a little) and a Voigtlander 35mm f/2.5 pancake lens. I couldn't afford a Summicron and it will take me some time to be able to afford one.

Being a person who has only ever used AF, manual focus is something that is very very foreign to myself. Not only using a manual focusing camera, but to make things more exciting a classic range finder, in the Leica M6. Most people have said using these cameras for any kind if photography has slowed them down and allowed them to compose and frame much better shots than using the new razzle dazzle equipment. I would say it has definitely slowed me down but I do not think for the better at the moment.

I have decided to try out a few films and I got a film case from Japan Camera Hunter with a big variety of films, there are many interesting ones in the set and it is definitely like a box of chocolates. I'm sticking with shooting in ISO 400 film and here are some samples from Fuji's Superior T-Max 400, Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Tri-X 400.

My apologies, I do not have a film scanner and the photos are not of the highest quality in terms of resolution.

Kodak - Portra 400 ... cannot afford two bodies and waste half a roll but this is Portra with back and white in post

Kodak - Portra 400, black and white conversion