I've been a serious photographer for 40 years. My first two cameras were an old film Leica I inherited from my Dad and an Olympus OM-1. Then I moved into decades of Nikon - three Nikon cameras, and a collection of, most recently 15 Nikon primes. Last year, I got a used Leica SL and the 75 SL prime followed by two Mint R lenses adapted to the SL. I became so enraptured, all my Nikon gear (which I cherished) fell dormant. A month ago, I sold my entire Nikon collection, just bought a Q2 to complement my SL and plan to by a couple more vintage R lenses to round out my collection. I am not wealthy. All of this has taken me out on a limb - a somewhat terrifying one. But I am fully in love with photography in a very new and invigorating way - something about Leica.

I changed my A7RIII for a M262 + 28 + 50. Period. And I must say that it's an absolute pleasure to come back to basics. Manual focus, delicious shutter sound, simple settings. So pleasant, so relaxing. The M tels you : take it easy man, and take your time. Less gear is more pleasure for sure.

Leica, great job choosing Hugh for this!

Wonderful interview. Would like to see Hugh doing more of these interviews for Leica.

A great discussion! Thank you Hugh and Dr Kaufmann.

Another thoughtful interview. Thank you Hugh & Dr. Kaufmann.

Awesome, interview.

Hi Hugh, Jose from Puerto Rico. You outdid yourself again my friend. My favorite KZfaq scholar interviewing another legend. What a wonderful story and interview man! No COVID stopping Hugh Brownstone! Beautiful work.

I love how Andreas says the things he doesn't like about the company's products (like his comment on the Visoflex). That to me is the mark of someone who loves and cares intensely about what they do.

Great interview. I love learning more and more about Leica history.

Fascinating. Well done Hugh and Dr Kaufman.

Good interview. I was not able to join the live session, but luckily the recording came out. I think as a Leica (M) shooter you understand more and more about Leica philosophy and history having seen this. Good stuff! Thank you!

How did I miss this when it came out!! Glad to see it now!

I don’t normally watch videos this long and even though I don’t own a Leica I thoroughly enjoyed watching this chat. Many thanks for sharing it

Nice talk with Dr. Andreas. Quite interesting and a fantastic interview. As Andreas says, Anyone grabs a Leica it's connecting to making history. I agree too I am connected to history too and they are in my photography. Well, My first Leica camera M6, which I got during 1998 had given me a great opportunity to change my aspect of photography. Leica Camera has shaped up a lot of documentary and journalistic style photography. That is my area of interest in Photography. As my base was Paris I had a much more active routine in photography. I am now working on all archive photography to put into a book and I am happy I changed my cameras NIKON and Hasselblad into Leica and my vision has really developed since. I used M6, M8 to M9, and Now only have M6 and M8. I am considering a Monochrome but never give up M8 and M6. I love summicron Lens and I have three of them. Thank you, Andreas, for your devotion to Leica. My Leica photography on my Profile here www.behance.net/CyrilJayant

Simply wonderful!

Really, really interesting. Thanks

Great talk!!

Really great interview. Interesting to hear the thought process behind some of the Leica products.

greatl interview

Thank you very much for this Interview 🙏🏻 I love my M240 and my Summilux and Summicron lenses. 📸😍 Would love to see a M11 soon. Greetings from Austria

Hugh is a entertaining host !

Kaufmann has put Leica on top again! glad he is the director

The passion for Leica is obvious. Great job, Hugh!

Wonderful interview, if you can stand all the hot air. Walther Bauersfeld - chief engineer of the Carl Zeiss optical company - came up with the geodesic dome.

Hugh, there on the photo, which was shown by Dr. Kaufmann was Rene Burri, not Robert Frank. Kind regards and many thanks to you and to Dr. Kaufmann for a beautiful conversation.

Fab. I started with an S2 and ended up, inevitably, with an M10. It's interesting that one of the criticisms of the M8 and M9 was that the screen was crap and the buffer slow. Later, when Leica made the M10, you have live view and the buffer is almost immediate, So they issue the M10D with no screen at all. I've kept my M8 and M9 as they do something different. The SL is a stunner, but as Hugh says, once you get used to small, perfect M lenses, big glass becomes a pain in the ass.

THX

If that three volume novel ever materialized I would definitely read it.

Excellent episode, analog remains king, so at the end where does SL2 stay in the scheme of things?

The statement of as a Chairman in day in, day out of to take up the responsibility of over 2000 employees. Actualy your team bring a great joy of Color of rainbow, and the gradient of BW on photography.

Yes, I'll have one leica please.

What he say at 22:55 they under stood not menu settings ... don’t get the next bit

Great interview- understanding why the m is unique thrills me as I just purchased the m10r-

Leica - The road to the multiverse :-)

I never used my M6 on Colour films and Nearly 20 years. But I must say my color blindness was gone after M8. So I have started a Colour series dedicated to Leica colors and I am happy That project was published and Happy to say It on the " Selection of Excellence of The Leica Meet 2014 edition photography" Find it on this link. www.behance.net/gallery/96901027/London-Rainy-days

Por favor subtítulos en español!!!

I want an M, guess I need to start saving up.

Piece of trivia, Eisenstad actually got off four shots of the forced Sailor/Nurse kiss.

Q monochrom please

때로는 한 장의 사진이 여러 잡다한 말보다 더 많은 이야기를 대변한다. 🙏🇺🇸🇮🇹🇬🇧🇯🇵🇮🇱🇪🇺🇰🇷🇨🇳🇦🇷🇨🇦🇲🇫🇷🇺🇸🇦🇩🇪😎

The Q2 is all I could get past my wife. If I went full-on M system, I'd be living in the garage minus my head.

Good work - Hugh should go off-script more often

M10PAC?

Sounds like they're more into design than photography now days

More than 1 hours of Leica publicity. Quite boring 😏

leica a partner of CCP

Delightful. Hugh was the perfect choice here. Bravo!