Those are the top 10 most visited LeicaRumors posts for September 2012: The new Leica M The new Leica M-E Leica “Das Wesentliche” event coverage Some Leica S3 rumors MS Optical 50/1.13 lens coming soon This is the MS Optical Sonnetar 50mm f/1.1 MC lens Leica M explained (video) The new Leica S Welcome […]
There is a new version of Leica: Witness to a Century book that will start shipping later this month. Leica Camera book is described as “high quality content by Wikipedia articles“. Erwin Puts announced his latest book called Leica Chronicle. A sample PDF with a few pages from the book can be downloaded here.
Interesting trivia: in May 2012 Leica Camera AG trademarked “M11” as an “instruments and apparatus, in particular photographic rangefinder cameras for analogue or digital still image recording, digital cameras“. The “M10” name was trademarked back in 2010.
The Leica APO Summicron-M 50mm f/2 ASPH lens is currently in stock at Amazon (update: the lens is now sold out).
The new Leica M-E camera is now shipping in Europe as you can see from this unboxing video from PCH (located in Brussels, Belgium):
Inspired by H.Y. Leung’s Lego Leica M8, Chris McVeigh created this Leica M9 replica completely out of Lego pieces. Back in 2010 someone actually built a functional Leica M8 based on the Lego Pink Digital Camera set (available on Amazon).
David from Dale Photo & Digital published a very detailed video interview with Jesko von Oeynhausen from Leica on the new M digital rangefinder – worth watching if you are planning to buy the camera:
