A selection of street pictures with the LX3. Last time I was in Paris I used a Leica M6 with a 35mm Summicron and shooting on XP2. Despite the convenience of digital I was wishing I still had the Leica; its just more fun for this sort of thing.
I doubt that I would have taken any significantly different pictures though. All the talk of the rangefinder experience and so on does not really amount to that much in practice, other than in limitations; no autofocus, no zoom, no variable film speed without a lot of fiddling about. But when you are walking the streets none of this really matters. On the screen you can't tell the difference between the older Leica pics and the LX3 digital. In print you see it in 12 inch prints and above.
Following on the theme of consumption from the post below, I spent a lot of time thinking about ditching the LX3 for a GF1, or for no real reason other than the logo paying an excessive amount of money for the Leica X1. At an intellectual level the message from the sand mandala is right, but at an emotional level the hegemony of consumption has me in it sights. Although the best part of £5000 for an M9 is definitively a step too far.
