Monthly Archives: January 2009

Leica Lumix

This is funny – Leica Lumix. Is this going to be a reality one day?

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Obama’s White House photographer uses Canon and Leica M8.2

“Photojournalist and NPPA member Pete Souza has accepted the position of official White House photographer for President-elect Barack Obama, he told News Photographer magazine… Souza currently works using Canon 5D’s and he says that he hopes to upgrade to Canon 5D Mark II bodies soon, as well as Leica M8.2 bodies.” Source

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LeicaRumors.com RSS feed

I had to make a small change in the RSS feed. If you have a problem receiving updates, please make sure you are using the correct link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LeicaRumors

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Leica M8 Chosen For Chicago Athenaeum´s 2008 Good Design Award

January 13, 2009 The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies announced the LEICA M8 digital rangefinder camera as the recipient of the 2008 GOOD DESIGN award. The Jury for GOOD DESIGN based their decisions on aesthetic criteria stated in the original 1950 Program-criteria [...]

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Leica M8 “Panda” special edition now available

Did Leica forget to official announce this Leica M8 “Panda” special edition or am I missing something? Shouldn’t they try to make some noise when they have a new product? Weird. Anyway, the rumor that we reported earlier came out to be true. My job is done. Thanks to the readers that contributed to this [...]

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