{"id":10539,"date":"2017-01-19T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T08:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2017-07-03T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T19:42:09","slug":"10539","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=10539","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/randywells-1979_M422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/randywells-1979_M422.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"randywells-1979_M42\" width=\"330\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/randywells-1979_M422.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/randywells-1979_M422-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/randywells-1979_M422-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THROWBACK THURSDAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winter is a great time to do some tabletop studio work. On the third Thursday of each month, I&#8217;ll be posting a new still photograph of one of my old film cameras. Call it a retro phase.<\/p>\n<p>Leica&#8217;s M4-2 was a short-lived model built from 1978 to 1980. It was a simplified revision of the M4 (&#8217;66-&#8217;75). It didn&#8217;t have a self timer, but it had a working hot shoe and could take a winder. About 16,000 were made, including mine shown here. Bought in 1979, it was my first Leica rangefinder. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The M4-2 essentially saved Leica, which was struggling to keep it&#8217;s SL range contemporary. This look back still seems somehow relevant with yesterday&#8217;s gear announcement of the back-to-basics Leica M10 digital rangefinder. Thinner, lighter, quieter, better sensor, faster recycle rate, 5 fps, larger viewfinder, and no video. I like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-Leica-M10-review-product-images-2-770x5131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-Leica-M10-review-product-images-2-770x5131.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-Leica-M10-review-product-images-2-770x513\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-Leica-M10-review-product-images-2-770x5131.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-Leica-M10-review-product-images-2-770x5131-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Chris-Gampat-The-Phoblographer-Leica-M10-review-product-images-2-770x5131-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Bottom Photo: Chris Gampat\/Photoblogger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THROWBACK THURSDAY Winter is a great time to do some tabletop studio work. On the third Thursday of each month, I&#8217;ll be posting a new still photograph of one of my old film cameras. Call it a retro phase. Leica&#8217;s M4-2 was a short-lived model built from 1978 to 1980. It was a simplified revision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=10539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11637,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/11637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}