Guide to Real Photo Postcards This guide is meant to aid the collector in identifying and dating real photo postcards, and to act as a reminder that it is impossible to do so with great accuracy. Although real photo postcards were made in a variety of ways, they hold one identifiable feature in common. The tonalities of photos are completely continuous to the eye producing true greys, for they are created by the reaction of individual photosensitive molecules to light rather than the transfer of ink from a plate.

In printed images the grey areas are usually made up of black marks that are spaced to create the optical illusion of greys. Though most of us today are familiar with the concept of photo grain, this is mostly because we have experienced very large prints made from small 35mm negatives. But even here the effect is more of a softening of detail than a observable texture.

The new Leica Q-P pairs the tech specs of the Leica Q camera with a shutter release button that replicates those of the Leica M and CL cameras and a refined, yet understated matte black finish.

Opt out or contact us anytime Keep in mind that once you buy a Leica camera body, it still needs a lens. But this, professional photographers say, is where Leica excels. Once you have recovered from seeing the price of the Noctilux-M, keep in mind it is considered one of the best low-light lenses in the world and has such a wide aperture it can shoot almost in darkness. The company names all of its lenses based on the amount of light a lens can let in through the aperture; these include the Summilux, Summicron, Summarit and Noctilux.

My personal Leica setup is half that. I own a used Leica M9-P with a Leica 50mm f1. Advertisement Continue reading the main story This was true decades ago and is still true today. If you do buy a Leica, it will also take a long time to become completely used to the range finder and manual setup. Leicas are in such high demand that there is a three-month wait to purchase several of the latest models. August 9, The earlier version of an introduction to a slide show with this article incompletely described the cameras used to take the photographs.

The Leicas used to take the pictures were digital models, not film cameras. August 12, An article on the Personal Tech pages on Thursday about Leica cameras misstated the decade in which Leica first released a camera with a range finder body. It was in — not in the s, which is when the company introduced its M-System cameras. A version of this article appears in print on August 8, , on Page B7 of the New York edition with the headline: