The 20th WestLicht Photographica camera auction will take place on Saturday, November 12th, 2011 between 11am and 6pm. The auctioned cameras can be previewed from November 1oth, 2011. Here are the Leica highlights: Leica I Mod.A Elmar ‘Calfskin’ from 1930
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.
The group was just initiated and we’re curious to see what other Leica tattoos exist! If you or someone you know has or is looking to get Leica body art, visit our new Leica Tattoos group on Flickr to share photos or to find inspiration.
After my yesterday’s post about the rumor that Leica M10 will have live view capabilities, I got some interesting comments from readers about the possibilities of adding new technologies in the next M camera. Here is John’s comment: It’s quite possible th
After my yesterday’s post about the rumor that Leica M10 will have live view capabilities, I got some interesting comments from readers about the possibilities of adding new technologies in the next M camera.
If the Leica Guy (Matthew B. Harrison) had any doubt as to the marrying potential of his wife-to-be, it surely evaporated when he saw the wedding gift she got for him: a custom made Leica ring, modeled on a lens aperture ring. The detail is astonishing, f
At the seminar “Copyright: Know It or Blow It” conducted at the Outdoor Photo Expo, held August 4-5 in Salt Lake City, agent Debra Weiss and photographer and former stock agent Patrick Donehue offered advice on how photographers can protect the copyright
At the seminar “Copyright: Know It or Blow It” conducted at the Outdoor Photo Expo, held August 4-5 in Salt Lake City, agent Debra Weiss and photographer and former stock agent Patrick Donehue offered advice on how photographers can protect the copyright on their images – and also how to avoid being held liable for infringing on another artist’s work.
Leica Camera has recently become aware of customers experiencing compatibility issues related to select types of new memory cards when used in the Leica M9. First of all, we would like to thank you all for the lively participation on our call for assistan
Leica Camera has recently become aware of customers experiencing compatibility issues related to select types of new memory cards when used in the Leica M9.
Photographer Gil Lavi described on his blog in details his experiences with a brand new Leica M9 camera and different SanDisk memory cards, mainly from the Ultra/Extreme series. His camera crashed on several occasions and he lost multiple images, some of
Leica sure makes some fine cameras, and some even better lenses. But what is it with those prices? When I picked up a used M6 with a 35mm aspherical lens some years ago, they cost me around £800 ($1,300) apiece. Back then it was probably the most money I
The previously rumored Leica M9 to M9-P upgrade program is now official. Two options will be available: “Sapphire Glass” upgrade package for $1,295 and “Top Cover and Sapphire Glass” upgrade package for $1,995. Both packages come with a one-year warranty
I decided to try an experiment on this Safari and take two totally different cameras from the norm for this kind of shooting: A Leica S2 and a Panasonic GH2.
Working at a small family owned since camera shop in Minnesota, I was recently able to bring a copy of the Fuji X100 home for testing, and a wild idea popped into my head, my primary camera being a Leica M6… “What if I pitted these two wonderful cameras against each other? What would I find I liked and disliked about each, which would I find I liked better as a small concealable walk-around camera?”
Leica Camera AG is expanding the range of accessories for the Leica S2 professional camera system with three new Leica S-Adapters. Beginning August 2011, these latest accessories will allow users to attach medium-format lenses from other manufacturers to Leica S bodies. The Leica S-Adapter V can be used for Hasselblad V System lenses, the Leica S-Adapter P67 for the Pentax 67 system lenses and the Leica S-Adapter M645 for the lenses of the Mamiya 645 system.
Solms, Germany (July 6, 2011) – Leica Camera AG announces a multi-faceted collaboration with Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA), a non-profit collective of prominent photographers and writers who have come together to explore the United States duri
Sharing a commitment to supporting independent documentary photography, Leica and FCDA will present a number of photographic projects to be featured online on at www.leica-camera.com and www.facingchange.org, as well as in LFI Magazine, books and travelling exhibitions beginning in July 2011.
This video displaying the work of the award winners and finalists is being screened at Rencontres d’Arles, the Arles Photo Festival, but you are getting an exclusive viewing of the film here on the Leica Camera Blog.
Last year I had the opportunity to travel with the Leica S2 from White Mountain National Forest nestled on the East Coast of the United States, in New Hampshire to be specific, to Olympic National Park (ONP) on the West Coast in Washington state. I was also equipped with three lenses — Summarit-S 1:2.5/35 mm ASPH, Summarit-S 1:2,5/70 mm ASPH and APO Elmar-S 1:3.5/180 mm — in order to evaluate whether the system qualified as a replacement candidate for my tried and true Arca Swiss 4×5 view camera.
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the ve
However, with the new Leica M9-P, you pay a grand more (£5395) than the already overpriced M9 for the same camera apart from the fact that the screen is better protected, and there is no red dot. WTF is wrong with a bit of tape and a screen protector? Save a grand and put it towards some decent glass..
