As already promised, Apple today released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.1 with support for Leica M9 and X1.More info and download link available here.
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As already promised, Apple today released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.1 with support for Leica M9 and X1.More info and download link available here.
Leica 35mm Summilux 1.4 lens is listed as discontinued on a dealer’s price list according to this post. Some dealers already have waiting lists.
Full press release:
Leica will host first-ever series of experiential seminars on M and S-Systems
February 23, 2010 – (Allendale, NJ) – Leica Camera announced today that it will bring the latest and newest Leica products to major North American cities as part of the first-ever Leica North American Road Show. Leica’s product specialists will visit 26 cities over the course of 14 weeks; the road show will commence on March 18, 2010 in Miami, Florida and conclude on June 23, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee. The series is designed to enhance participants’ knowledge of and familiarity with the M and S Systems.
The series will be equally valuable for amateur photographers who enjoy the best and finest as well as professional photographers who demand excellence in image quality and incomparable ease-of-use. Each participant will have access to experienced Leica photographers who can deepen their photographic abilities and enhance their shooting experience.
Topics covered during the Leica M and S-Events will include camera and lens orientation; troubleshooting and maintenance; understanding the digital imaging process; configuring your computer; organizing and storing your images; Adobe Lightroom introduction; color management introduction and methods to produce better work in less time.
Participants to the M Event will have the unprecedented opportunity to become intimately familiar with the acclaimed Leica M9, the world’s smallest full-frame digital rangefinder camera and the M-System, including Leica’s newest lenses, the 18mm/f3.8, 50mm/f0.95 and the 24mm/f3.8. The S Event will showcase the exceptional offerings of the S-System, the defining instrument for fashion, beauty, advertising, landscapes, portraits and still photography, in addition to offering its participants the opportunity to take photographs.
The M Event will cost $99 per participant; the S Event will cost $149 per participant. Each participant will receive a voucher equal to the workshop fee, which can be used towards the purchase of a brand new serialized M or S Leica product from an authorized North American Leica dealer. For additional information and to sign up, please visit www.leica-camera.us/news
Few weeks ago Thorsten Overgaard introduced a series of extension courses – the best thing is that people can do those courses from anywhere in the world. You don’t have to be a Leica shooter in order to join, but in Thorsten’s own words those classes spell Leica all over:
“It’s the basics of photography – which is light, and the three light control buttons that Leica has. It’s not an exclusive Leica course though most of the ones who sign up are Leica users – or become Leica users after the seminar. The handling of camera, the requirements for a lens’ handling of light … it just all spells Leica when you get down to the truth about photography.
People have all sorts of things they want to photograph, surprisingly many want to shoot people and human condition but find they have trouble comfortably shooting people. I see that when you know your equipment and how to make photos and people look good, that barrier becomes less: If you make people and things look good, you feel more comfortable doing it. But it also has to do with the fact that if you’re tangled up in camera buttons or not knowing your technical stuff, you have a hard time focusing on what is in front of the camera. When you comfortable can use a camera it becomes and extension of your eyes and you don’t think of it as an instrument but at tool of making things you see look artistic, aesthetic and nice.”
New Leica flagship store is coming soon in Hong Kong. It will be located in the Time Square mall in Causeway Bay. The store is already listed in the mall directory as “coming soon”.
The full 16 pages reports can be downloaded here. Some interesting Leica facts from 1946:
“61. The Leitz factory is a well-run happy organisation, this being due in no small measure to the family nature of the business and to its importance in the neighbourhood. Discipline is strict without being severe and one gets the impression of great interest by employees of every grade in the work being performed.
62. This pride in workmanship and the just pride all have in their world-wide reputation for quality work is the permeating spirit of the place and helps greatly to offset apathy caused by the present dismal state of the country.”
RedBullIllume photo competition offers a Leica S2 equipment valued at €30,000 as a top prize. Photographers must enter their best action and adventure sports images before midnight (Central European Time) on February 28, 2010.