What no One Told You About The Leica M10! Chapter 8. Ten Steps to Better Photography !

Chapter 8, Ten steps to Better Photography

2:26 1. Minimize
5:23 2. Understand How Your Camera Works
8:23 3. Subject Matter Matters
13:11 Bonus Tip
16:39 4. Composition is Everything
23:18 5. Mind the Background
24:50 6. Break all the Rules
30:24 7. Step out of your comfort zone
32:09 8.Fail Often
35:24 9. Get Closer
37:52 10. Always be Shooting

All photos in the video where made with a Leica M10, black and white photos with a Leica M10-Monochrom and the colour photos with either a Leica M10-R, M10-P, an M10 or a Leica M10-D over the course of the last 6 years. All photos shown are © Patrick Colpron 2017-2024

I'll share some of these photos on my Instagram in the next few weeks with additional details about the camera, settings and lens used.

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What no one told you about Leica M10 Cameras was something I filmed with the wrong camera the day after uploading my first Leica M10 Camera video a little over 5 years ago. It ended up being a mess, and I never reshot it. But it always sat in the back of my head until two years ago when I wrote a first draft and filmed part of it, never finishing it. A lot has changed in the last two years, I finally re-wrote it after I finished the Steel Rim video. Now that I own all 5 Leica M10 camera models, it was time to put this idea to rest.

This ended up being a 3 hours and 44 minutes video I shot on my own, the very first video I made alone and since it was too long, I broke it apart in chapters - uploading the last chapter first, starting by the end, starting by providing you value, tips and tricks I learned along the way in the last 46 years of making photos.

Chapter 7 will be uploaded next, that part which comes before this one. Everything is shot and edited but... I am leaving on a two month's vacation so - the 6 missing chapters risk being uploaded at the end of August.

Chapter 1 starts more or less like this: "I am here to tell you what no one ever told you about Leica M10 cameras. Not even Leica told you about an M10 feature they made to simplify the act of making photos. I be saying long story short and then proceed to tell you the double VHS Titanic version of the story, similar to what I did in my previous video. There is a lot to unpack, so yes, this video is going to be a very long one." yes ... 3 hours and 44 minutes long.

"In this video I will tell you what no one told you about Leica M10 cameras, in my opinion, making the M10 the best digital M to make stills photos. Then I’ll introduce myself properly, a quick bio about who I am, and follow with the reasons I started my YouTube channel 4 years ago. Then I will tell you why I have all five different M10 digital camera models, and of these, which M10 camera is my favourite. Then move on to why I don’t have an M11. After this I will go back to the M10, to cover everything else about this particular M camera model. Then I will tell you why, it’s about time we start focusing on the photos we make, as oppose to the cameras and lenses we use to make them with. Because focusing on the photos we make, the end result, not the camera gear, is the only way to creatively grow as a photographer. Finally I’ll give you ten quick basic photography tips, a quick photography crash course, just a simple tried and true foundation to build on, to hopefully help you quickly improve your photography, and enable you to creatively grow, as a photographer."

You see, you are watching the end of the video, the conclusion, there's an Easter Egg at the end

The final part of this Leica M10 cameras series, finally putting this discussion to rest or is it the start of something new.

Anyhoo, I'll be linking the chapters, once uploaded, in this section on all the different videos of this series.

P.S.: Chapter 8, sums up what I learned in 46 years of making photos

That iPhone 4s video made 12 years ago:

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