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Leica Camera released a new iPad app called “S-Magazine” that showcases the latest work by professional photographers using the Leica S system

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Leica Camera AG presents the Leica V-Lux 3, a new compact digital camera with an extensive range of features. The camera is extremely versatile, making it ideal for almost all photographic situations. For photographers shooting landscapes, architecture, sport, travel, portraits or wildlife, the V-Lux 3 incorporates an enormously flexible lens. The Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 4.5 – 108 mm f/2.8 – 5.2 ASPH. 24-fold super-telephoto zoom lens covers a wide range of focal lengths equivalent to 25–600 mm in 35 mm format

In addition to the Leica Cinema Lenses, cinematographers can soon also use Leica M lenses on a RED camera - Pier 59 with the assistance of Leica Camera have been testing the RED DSMC Leica-M mount in New York this week.

In the tightly-controlled conditions of architectural and landscape photography, the performance of this lens stunned me. I’m in utter disbelief at the level of microscopic detail made visible by the combination of the Leica M9 and the 21mm Super-Elmar-M. If sharpness is your bag, then the 21mm Super-Elmar-M is your lens.

For this review I am going to give you my honest review of the camera, not focusing much on the technical aspects (other sites have already done this to death) but how it actually performs when it comes to shooting street photography. Considering that I have only been shooting with the camera around 3 months—I am not an expert with the Leica M9. However having shot with it enough when it comes to street photography, I am very confortable discussing how it performs when shooting on the streets.

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In the first issue of S-Magazine, the renowned fashion photographers Joachim Baldauf, Straulino and Manuel Pandalis present powerful images, unusual angles and surprising perspectives.

Leica is expanding its range of lenses specifically designed for its S camera with the release, in December, of the Elmarit-S 30mm f/2.8 ASPH model

As promised, here is the story of the 350kg stainless steel Leica camera from the Foto Henny Hoogeveen Leica store in Lisse, the Netherlands:

The only annoying thing that I found with the camera was the strap. And it wasn’t even the strap’s fault. Often, when I was in the car and I grabbed the camera, just as I was about to get it to my eye, the shoulder strap would snag between my seat and the belt clasp forcing me to work it free, often missing my shot. Either Toyota or Leica need to work this out.

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Clad in green leather, this edition is limited to 101 pieces

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Worn out Leica cameras are a rare sight, but Paal Audestad managed to do the impossible. Paal started taking pictures when he was 14 years old. Leica was always his dream and he happened to buy a 1967 M4 in a second hand store in Oslo back in 1987. After many years by his side traveling to numerous festivals, concerts, discovering urban sites and visiting places all over the world (almost being lost twice), the M4 simply wore out

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Very rare and absolutely original Leica Model A, with calfskin body-cover (LEANEKALB) with brown chequered pattern.

Louis CK, Leica User:

This is the main dude. A film camera. A range-finder. I only really shoot film, though I do use a digital camera just to record moments, to take snapshots. This Leica is handmade in Germany. It is encased in painted brass and has all mechanical parts. It has no automatic settings. There is a light meter but the battery was dead when I brought it on this trip so I shot the entire trip manually with a hand light meter. The Leica MP is made exactly the same way Leica made Rangefinders in the 60s. It’s not even an SLR. you have to line up images in the rangefinder and hope for the best.

I do like the 50mm lens because it allows me to focus on more of the subject than a wide-angle 28mm, but I also like the 35mm because it gives me more information than the 50mm. It all depends what I am photographing. When I worked for the New York Times, I used the 35mm more and the 50mm for a closer cropped image. I also used the 28mm then. I used to crop my images, and now, I try to do this in the camera so that when I am developing or downloading the images I do not have to make these adjustments in Photoshop or in the darkroom.

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