The PurchaseI'm not a range finder guy.

In fact for my entire career, other than hold somebody's point and shoot at a party, I've never shot a frame of film or digital with a rangefinder camera.

I just didn't see the point of looking through one window, focusing, then composing with little lines and then shooting through a lens that is probably not near the composition you intended.

Given this, for the last year or so I've longed for the Leica M8.

When I have a few hours break my favorite place to go is the Leica Gallery on Broadway. It's a quick 5 minute walk from our studio and going in there just clears my head of downloads, clients, promos, agents, e-mails and takes me back to simpler times where a photograph was just a subject, background and light.

No overt manipulation, color correction or weeks of post production. Just shoot, print and ship.

The Leica Gallery has one other attraction for me in the fact it has my photo school in one of it's glass cases.
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