Monthly Archives: September 2009

First images from Leica X1

Here are the first images (that I know of) from the new Leica X1 – the camera was available on Leica day last week in Singapore: M82JL1002964 Originally uploaded by JMHLAU

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A video tour of Leica M9 assembly and testing and more

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Did Leica jump the shark?

From an article in the German Giessener Anzeiger newspaper two weeks ago (Google translation): “The 1000 employees of Leica Camera AG (Solms / Lahn-Dill-Kreis) fear for their jobs. With sharp words of CEO Rudolf Spiller employees in a staff meeting has described the situation of Leica. In order to stabilize the company, the employees are [...]

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Leica M8 RIP

B&H just confirmed what Stefan Daniel said about the M8.2: “It will be phased out and we’re clearing stocks” The Leica M8 is currently selling for $3,499.99 @ Adorama, Amazon and B&H still has the black M8 model in stock for $3,995.00. The price of the Leica M8.2 is still $5,995.00 in Amazon, Adorama and B&H.

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First batch of Leica M9 recalled? *updated*

Update: there is NO RECALL whatsoever. SH-Photo simply did not want to sell the camera to the prospective buyer as he was form overseas and blamed this on Leica (buyers be aware). There is currently a thread on dpreview stating that the first batch of ten Leica M9 cameras shipped to a store in Germany [...]

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