Fun with the Leica R5 and some Fresh 3 Cam R Glass.

 

Yup, another Leica SLR, an R5, this time. I went back and forth between the R5 and R7, when I was looking for a second "modern" R body and settled on the R5 for the battery requirement, only two SR44/Engergizer 357s vs the four the R7 required. 

The R5, like it's mechanical sibling the R6 is a distant offspring of the Leitz-Minolta partnership where camera and lens technologies were shared between both companies. The R5 has two metering modes, spot and sort of a matrix metering mode, both deliver accurate readings along with manual, aperture priority, shutter priority, and a couple of program modes. 

I foud the R5 easy to use and was shooting in both manual and aperture priority modes for the duration of the photowalk. It was also an opportunity to try out two new lenses, the 35 F2 Summicron and 21 F4 Super Angolan. I've shot with the Super Angulon before when I borrowed my brother Alex's R4 kit 18 years ago, it's fun glass. The 35 F2 Summicron lens is perfect for city photography and I did not have to do any colour correction in Lightroom. 

Camera: Leica R5, Leica R 3 Cam, 35 F2 Summicron Lens, 21 F4 Super Angulon Lens, 135 F2.8 Tele-Elmarit Lens. 

Film: Lomo 400 C-41, processed at Graination Lab.