📸 Unlock the World of Photography on a Budget with the Leica MDa (1967) - Your Affordable Path to Mastering Shutter Speed, Aperture, and Focus! 🌍✨
Discover the "Blind Leica" or "Poor Man's Leica" in this video - the Leica MDa from 1967, a budget-friendly gem perfect for learning photography essentials. Master shutter speed, aperture, and focus plane without breaking the bank!
Special Leica model - the MDa - which combines many features of the Leica M4 and the Leica MD is now available for scientific, industrial and research photography. Basically an M4 body without a combined rangefinder and viewfinder. Although the new MDa will be used primarily for laboratory photography, it offers such Leica M4 features as full flash synchronization at speeds from 1 second to 1/1000th, a rapid rewind crank and extra-fast film-loading system. It accepts all bayonet-mounting lenses and other M-model Leica accessories. The MDa accepts the special baseplate introduced on the Leica MD which permits a coded transparent identification tab to be inserted and printed on the negative at the time of exposure. There were nearly 15,000 produced over a decade.
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The Sunny 16 rule : the Light meter for free. How the Sunny 16 rule works. It's simple: Sunny 16 says that on a sunny day, you should set your aperture to F16 and your shutter speed to the reciprocal of your film speed, or as close to it as you can get. So if you're shooting 100 ISO film, set F16 and 1/90 or 1/125 sec.
If you think this is not for your budget, you can try to look to Zorki 1, Zorki 4K/4, Voigtlander Bessa R, Leica R4 (not M rangefinder but still Leica)
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There is next version called Leica MD-2 was produced from 1980 to 1986. It total there is 4 versions : M1, MD, MDa, MD-2. The M1 have viewfinder, but don't have rangefinder. You can frame but cant set focus by rangefinder. The difference in MD, MDa, MD-2 is in build quality.
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