I received a tip that the next Leica M8 firmware update will be released in early May, 2010. My understanding is that this will be the last firmware update for the M8 model – as far as I remember Stefan Daniel mention that in one of the Leica videos when
DXOmark released their Leica M9 test results. Leica M9 came 23th in the sensor ranking and 19th in low light ISO ranking. You can also compare the M9 RAW-based camera image quality with any other camera in their database. Have fun! Read more about DXOmark
Those pictures were taken from a German soap opera (click on image for larger view): (Thanks Mathias) Related posts: Breaking news: Leica M9 and Leica X1 pictures leaked Black Thumbs Up CSEP-2 now available for the black Leica X1 Leica D-Lux 5, V-Lux 2 an
As previously reported, the Leica M9 firmware is now available – login in the customer area, click on your registered M9 and download it (yes, for now this is the only way to get it): Download link (https://owners.leica-camera.com/home) The official list
Ben Shahn loved his Leica. To be more precise, he loved what he could do with it, especially when outfitted with a right-angle viewfinder. In my last post, I talked about Shahn’s 1935 encounter with a traveling medicine show in a small town in Tennessee a
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Ben Shahn loved his Leica. To be more precise, he loved what he could do with it, especially when outfitted with a right-angle viewfinder.
If you approach the M9 as you would do with a 1Ds or a D3, you miss the point. The C/N approach is to optimize the camera software to improve the results and to use a lowpass filter to mask the defects. The Leica approach is to show the physical/optical limits of the camera and let the user decide. I find this a more sympathetic way of practicing photography.
Link: M9 final verdict
Some while back, Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape posted “An Open Letter to Leica” subtitled “A Modest Proposal for Reinventing the M Series.” Not long after, Michael published a response by Thom Hogan of ByThom.com under the title, “Thom…
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I’m neither a Leica insider nor a Leica user (well, I’ve been using an M7 lately, but it’s not mine, it’s a loaner from a friend). And I’m only basing the following on logic, which can easily lead us astray. But here’s where my logic takes me
This is an official letter from Leica (I have the actual PDF file, so it is real): Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, We would like to inform you that you we will put a new Firmware-Update 1.116 for the LEICA M9 onto our homepage. The free of charge download is e
Panasonic is currently running a teaser ad that displays the silhouettes of two cameras – one of them appears to have the shape of the LX3. The official announcement should be during the Focus on Imaging show in Birmingham NEC (March 7-10, 2010). At that
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Here are some rumored Leica D-Lux 5 specs
when i was enjoying myself in beautiful snowy sundance i got an email — actually through facebook — asking if i would cover a premiere. it wasn’t an assignment per se as it came from the studio. hadn’t done one…
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so … when i mentioned that i was gonna shoot this particular premiere, valentine’s day, one of my friends asked if i thought a leica s2 would be interesting to shoot. almost 38 megapixels. i’m used to 20 or so but … 38? there was only one lens available and since i wasn’t gonna be roaming i wondered if the 2.5/70 sumarit would be enough. it wasn’t like i was on an assignment-assignment so … whatever. it’s all good. having shot one of the h2’s i thought it’d be slow.
I’ve been saying for a few months that oh yeah that Leica M8 looks okay, but with a $6,000 price tag before you even get to the glass, who needs it. But you know what? I need it. I need it bad.
Link: Grant Cornett, the Leica M8, and The Glass Family. | A Photography Blog
UPDATE: More pictures from this event are available on Facebook. The Leica store in Warsaw is now open for business: Related posts: Leica to open five new stores/boutiques Next Leica Store opens in Warsaw in two days Leica store opening in Warsaw (video)
Those are some addition images to my previous post from 10 days ago about the “60th Anniversary of People’s Republic of China” limited edition Leica MP camera. The model will be available only in China. 161 pieces are produced with a price tag of 199,900
“The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2.6.1 update includes one important correction that is only relevant for Leica M9 users. This release of Lightroom fixes a bug that caused Lightroom 2.6 to crash when processing certain M9 images. The bug was introduced i
Just before the holidays, I managed to get my hands on a new Leica M9. Over the past several weeks I have been putting it through the paces around Paris. Since late 2005, the only cameras that I ha…
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Just before the holidays, I managed to get my hands on a new Leica M9. Over the past several weeks I have been putting it through the paces around Paris.
You know how Leica marks itself out with its typically subdued matte black finishes and old school designs? Well, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of t…
Limited to a run of 60, each hallmarked with a year between 1949 and 2009, the Golden Camera is encased in red calfskin, bears an inscription of Mao Zedong’s favorite slogan, and sports a Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 lens
Without picking on any one individual, I’d like to address a common plaint about prices. But first, I wonder if I could reproduce, unedited, a short passage from the website of a high-end stereo retailer. To make sure you understand…
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the conventional wisdom about the price of Leica products is, well, wrong. It’s a commonplace to hear things like, “Leica needs to lower its prices to make its cameras more accessible to more people.” No; no, it doesn’t.
The latest limited edition Leica M7 Hermes (more M7 Hermes stories) is now shipping The Hermes limited edition M7 coupled with the 35mm 1.4 aspherical silver lens currently sells for $12,950.00 @ Adorama. Related posts: Leica M9-P Hermes limited edition p
I am a fan of Leica cameras and lenses. But being a fan of something doesn’t mean accepting it without comment or complaint. Far from it. In fact fans are often a team or product’s most vocal critics. The reason being – because we care.
With that up front and out of the way, here is what I am describing as an Open Letter to Leica. I could of course send it directly to the senior managers that I know there, but I think that the ideas that I’m putting forward are worth a public debate, and that hopefully a lively and open discussion has a better chance of accomplishing something than a closed one.
Link: An Open Letter to Leica
I’ve been using it for a little bit over a month, I’ve got to say that the X1 is a gem and have been a pleasure to shoot with.