The Leica M9 Titanium is now shipping to authorized dealers. The limited edition designed by Walter de’Silva was announced during Photokina. The set contains a 35mm Summilux lens, shoulder holster, carrying strap plus finger loops and two books illustrating the design process (some of the prototypes can be seen here). Another novelty of this limited M9 edition are sapphire crystal […]
The Leica M9 limited edition silver chrome body has sapphire glass and comes with a Leica 35mm f/2 Summicron lens. The kit is now available at the Leica Boutique in Palm Beach (phone: 561.253.2605). The full details: Silver chrome body Only 50 cameras were produced (the pictured camera has a serial #037 out of 050) Scratch-resistant sapphire […]
Today’s guest post is from Adam Marelli (www.adammarelliphoto.com): The release of the M8 did not convince me to go digital. While it was a big step forward, and some camera dealers swore a full frame M was not an option, I decided to hold out. The M9, and its custom Kodak CCD sensor, promised to […]
I’m Chris Peterson, editor and publisher of Glacier Park Magazine, an ad-free quarterly magazine of Glacier National Park, a million-acre wildlife preserve in Northwest Montana. The Park celebrated its 100th birthday in 2010 and in commemoration of that birthday I did a 100-mile hike in the Park, from the southern end to the north end […]
This “Leica M9 dream kit” is for sale on eBay for US $32,000.00 (£19,811.79) and contains: Leica M9 with thumbs up (new boxed) Leica SUMMICRON-M f 1:2/28 mm ASPH 6-Bit encoding (new boxed) Leica SUMMILUX f 1:1.4/35mm ASPH 6-Bit encoding (excellent) Leica NOCTILUX f 1:1/50mm (mint) Leica SUMMILUX-M f 1:1.4/50mm (mint) Leica SUMMILUX-M f 1:1.4/75mm […]
This small and free program that lets you view Leica M9 DNG files and EXIF info: The program needs just the original DNG or NEF file. Displays the preview picture. Preview can be saved as BMP. Displays serial number, applied firmware and shutter releases of the camera. Display picture related data including used lens. Displays the […]
Here are some images from the Leica booth at the PDN Photo Plus Expo 2010 that took place last week in New York, there was also a Leica S2 studio event with photographers Rinze Van Brug and Chiun-Kai Shih who shared their experiences with the S system. The Leica M9 Titanium (the only one in the US […]
