A Photowalk with the Leica MP, Elmarit 28mm ASPH, and Luminar ISO 100 film

*All scans shared here were from Luminar ISO100 film on a Leica MP and Elmarit-M 28mm ASPH scanned at a local developer anyone can find in your neighborhood.  Being scans from films and my perspective as a reviewer, no retouching was done other than the usual cropping where necessary.

Introduction

The Leica MP, released 11 years ago in 2003, still commands a certain reverence and represents precision engineering and timeless design in analog photography. Today, I am humbled to share a short photo essay on the trio, including the Leica MP, Leica Elmarit 28mm ƒ2.8 ASPH, and the 2022 released Luminar 100 film.

Luminar ISO100 has slowly grown on me, and it is now a film I use along with my favorites such as Kodak Ektachrome E100, Kodak Portra 400, Kodak Tri-X 400, and JCH StreetPan 400. (my reviews of them are linked on the names)

Film for me is my detox from digital photography.

As shared before in my full review of the Leica MP (my review here), while we all know that film camera bodies are basically light-sealed boxes designed to expose film, I have had this same Leica MP for quite a few years and I love it for the build and how Leica has balanced keeping the handling traditional yet ensuring it has the ‘just sufficient enough to please’ amount of modern conveniences.

The above group was pretty interesting, taking a pretty long time setting up the shot for the ladies with one of them actually even directing them how to pose.

For the sharing today, the venue was a walk along the beach of Punggol towards Coney Island in Singapore with a group of photography aficionados.

I have a soft spot for the warmth and fine grain Luminar 100 provides, and the fact that it is a C41 process film means it can be readily processed by most film developers. If there is anything to comment on, my usual complaints are that this film is unavailable locally in Singapore and requires a lot of light (bright days) being an ISO100 film.

And, of course, here is the team for the day 🙂

Hope to be able to do a photo-walk with the walk again soon on film.

Thank you for reading.

Disclaimers:

1. All product photos and samples here were photographed by me. I believe any reviewer with pride should produce their own product photos.

2. All images were shot with the Leica MP and the Elmarit 28mm ASPH. The cost of film, development, and scanning was borne by me.

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