Monthly Archives: February 2017

Leica M10 camera Q&A

During the last two weeks I received many questions regarding the new Leica M10 camera. I will try to answer them all in this Q&A post. If you have any additional questions, please add them in the comment section and I will update this post. Here are the Q&A:

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Leica digest

→ New ONA Bond Street leather camera bag and Kyoto wrist strap released. → There will be a Leica M lens adapter (pictured above) for the new Fuji GFX 50S medium format digital camera. → How durable is the Leica SL camera? → Another interview with Stefan Daniel and Jesko von Oeynhausen on the Leica M10. → Leica will be […]

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Ebay finds: “scratched” Leica M9, custom underwater housing for Leica M240

  Some interesting eBay finds: the first one is a “scratched” Leica M9 camera with “deliberately made heavy scratches on top and base plate” for that special Lenny Kravitz limited edition look. The second eBay find for today is this custom-made underwater housing for the Leica M240 camera by The Sexton Corporation. The housing is certified for depths of […]

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New ThumbsUp for Leica Q Titanium (EP-SQ2) and Leica M10 (EP-MX)

Match Technical announced two new ThumbsUp models for the Leica Q Titanium and Leica M10 cameras: ThumbsUp EP-SQ2 Titan for the Leica Q Titanium gray camera: check pricing and availability at Popflash and Leica Store Miami. ThumbsUp EP-MX for Leica M10: check pricing and availability at Popflash. For the M10 model Leica created their own thumb support which has […]

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Interview with Leica CEO Oliver Kaltner

Another interview from Enche Tjin/infofotografi.com, this time with Leica CEO Oliver Kaltner (read his previous M10 interview here)

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You can use the Ricoh GW-3 21mm wide-angle conversion lens on the Leica Q camera

According to this Facebook post posted a few weeks ago, the Ricoh GW-3 21mm wide-angle conversion lens first perfectly on the Leica Q camera. Here are two sample photos:

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Top 10 LeicaRumors posts for January 2017

These are the top 10 most visited LeicaRumors posts for January, and as you can imagine, it is all about the M10:

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Leica’s CEO Oliver Kaltner will be leaving in August

The current CEO of Leica Camera AG Oliver Kaltner will not be extending his contract on August 31st. The German website FinanzNachrichten reports that Leica’s Supervisory Board was not satisfied with Kaltner’s style of leadership. Here is the full, Google translated text:

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