Leica Compendium book is now sold out

By LR admin | Published: May 25, 2011

leica comprendium book erwin puts Leica Compendium book is now sold out

The last version of the Leica Compendium book by Erwin Puts is now sold out. Around 1000 copies were printed. The old version went up in price after being discontinued few months ago.

Erwin Puts also published a 129 pages Leica Pocket Guide that can be downloaded for free here.

More Leica books can be found here.

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  3. Third edition of the Leica Compendium book coming in November, 2011
  4. New Leica Lens Compendium book and a free Leica pocket guide
  5. The new version of the Leica Lens Compendium book coming soon

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14 Comments

  1. Adam Marelli
    Posted May 26, 2011 at 5:09 am | Permalink

    Just waiting for my copy to arrive. It is an expensive book, but then again everything in the Leica world is kind of expensive.

    • LR admin
      Posted May 26, 2011 at 11:23 am | Permalink

      Adam, this is the most comprehensive Leica book I’ve seen so far – it’s 600 pages. You will be able to get your money back if you decide to sell it :)

  2. Vlad Dusil
    Posted May 26, 2011 at 7:09 am | Permalink

    ^So am I. :)

  3. Maiko
    Posted May 26, 2011 at 7:41 am | Permalink

    1,000 copies?

    Will there be a second edition?

    • LR admin
      Posted May 26, 2011 at 11:20 am | Permalink

      Maiko, this is actually the second edition. Not sure if Mr. Puts will print more copies – probably not since this was a “limited edition”

      • maiko
        Posted May 26, 2011 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

        Strange… I would expect a limited edition Leica book to be bonded in fake ostrich testicle leather ;-)

        Sorry, I meant a second print of this edition. Sure, it is clever to bring a limited edition, which is probably wrapped air tight, of such a book. But what about the people which will actually read this book?

        Was there a second print of the 1st edition?

        • LR admin
          Posted May 26, 2011 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

          not sure, I can ask Mr. Puts

          • antoniop
            Posted May 27, 2011 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

            If there is much more demands will be more copies or an electronic pdf payed download version?

  4. Jeremy
    Posted May 27, 2011 at 8:43 pm | Permalink

    This isn’t about money. I am sure that the printing cost was very close to the amount he charged. I think the limiting factor is effort. He is basically self-published, and it is a lot of work to get the actual books all together and ship them all over the world.

    There may be a PDF available in the future, but since only a fraction of a percent of people sent him money for his 1st edition work in pdf, I’m sure he won’t be in much of a hurry to do it.

    • maiko
      Posted June 5, 2011 at 3:40 pm | Permalink

      “This isn’t about money…” Hehehehehehehe… sure.

  5. regular
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

    I am suprised by the impressive number of typo/grammar/syntax errors in my copy.
    Does anyone feel the same?

  6. LR admin
    Posted May 31, 2011 at 6:27 pm | Permalink

    It seems that there may be a second edition of this book in August in Germany:

    http://www.lindemanns.de/shop/fotobuchhandlung/64161l-leica-compendium–erwin-puts-leica-compendium.php?sid=4de56ac563724&iproj=limainst&direkt=10&ruck=/shop/fotobuchhandlung/uusuch4de56ac563724.php&anker=ank0

  7. Vadim
    Posted June 9, 2011 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    Just reading about this book….what is about overall ? all the leica lenses ?
    Would it be something similar to the “Eyes of EOS – EF Lens Work” by Canon in the leica world ?

    Thanks

    Vadim

    • LR admin
      Posted June 10, 2011 at 12:31 am | Permalink

      It’s pretty much all about Leica – history, details about products, many illustrations.