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Luminous Landscape’s Leica M9 Review

By LR admin | Published: October 1, 2009

Leica’s Latest and Greatest in The City of Light: “At the risk of sounding sexist, owning and working with an M Leica is like being involved with a very beautiful and intelligent woman that sometimes makes you a bit crazy with her demands. Frustrating yes, but overall more than worth the effort involved.”

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Leica Summilux 35mm update

By LR admin | Published: September 30, 2009

I received a tip that Leica may be introducing an updated version of the current Summilux 35mm lens model.

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Leica D-Lux 4 firmware update 2.0

By LR admin | Published: September 29, 2009

As you probably already know, Panasonic updated the firmware version on its LX3 model to 2.0 (more info and a list of fixes available here). Leica is also currently looking into a firmware update for the Leica D-Lux 4 camera. In order to maintain Leica’s high image quality, it is necessary to incorporate Leica’s special […]

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Leica D-Lux 4: alive and well

By LR admin | Published: September 27, 2009

Update on the previous D-Lux 4 post: Leica informed me that the D-Lux 4 model is not discontinued and the reported back-order situation is caused by high demand. New shipment is expected any moment (right now Amazon has the DL4 in stock through a third party).

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Leica links

By LR admin | Published: September 26, 2009

Leica M9 reviews: Lhsa (pdf) Nikonweb Getdpi Chanandrew Johnbuckley100 Leica X1 review: Chanandrew Other Leica related links: The KGB chooses Leica Cameras Capture One 4.8.3 now supports Leica M9 I also tried to compile a list of issues reported so far by Leica M9 owners. Please note that some of those may not be issues at all, […]

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This month’s Leica eBay madness

By LR admin | Published: September 24, 2009

Leica 1A 3,5/50mm on sale for US $96,199.00: Leica 3,5/3,5cm Stereo Elmar on sale for US $118,399.00:

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Leica D-Lux 4 discontinued?

By LR admin | Published: September 24, 2009

Update: the D-Lux 4 is not discontinued Rumors that the Panasonic LX 3 is discontinued have been floating around for few weeks now. Could it be that with the LX3, the Leica D-Lux 4 will also be gone? The D-Lux 4 is made in Japan and should not be impacted by the M9 which is […]

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