Category Archives: Other Leica Stuff

Caught with a Leica

By LR admin | Published: August 27, 2011

Caught with a Leica: Scarlett Johansson | #2 Ben Stiller Christina Applegate Queen Elizabeth II Jennifer Connelly (from the movie Blood Diamond) Jennifer Love Hewitt Tayl0r Swift Brad Pitt | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 Penelope Cruz | #2 Eric Clapton Seal | #2 | #3 | #4 Jessica Lange Woody Allen James Dean Julia Reberts Thailand’s […]

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Weekend Leica links

By LR admin | Published: August 21, 2011

Rebirth of a legend – what’s inside a Leica M4 camera: I saw this 1947 Leica IIIC with aftermarket gold conversion in my local Leica store:   

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Leica Camera AG looking to further increase production capacity

By LR admin | Published: August 16, 2011

Some interesting points from a recent article on Leica Camera AG publish on mittelhessen.de (in English): Leica increased lens production from 63 to 120 per day. The goal fot this fiscal year is 240 lenses per day. Leica now has 59 store worldwide. Dr. Andreas Kaufmann currently owns 95% of Leica’s stock and could not buy the remaining […]

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The new Leica Compendium book should be available tomorrow

By LR admin | Published: August 11, 2011

Update: the book is now available on LFI-online and Amazon. The new limited edition of the Leica Compendium book by Erwin Puts should be available tomorrow. The new edition will include new pages, additional images and rewritten paragraphs. The price will be 78 Euros. The previous version is already sold out.

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The Leica wedding

By LR admin | Published: August 8, 2011

The Leica Guy got married and of course the entire wedding had a Leica theme. Here is the Leica groom’s cake: and the Leica .95 Noctilux ring:

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Ricoh GXR Leica M-mount APS-C module detailed specs

By LR admin | Published: August 4, 2011

Detailed specs of the Ricoh GXR Leica M-mount cartridge were published  at Fotointern. The release date is September 9th, 2011. The retail price will be $649. More images of the unit can be found here. Technical specs:

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DNG to NEF file converter

By LR admin | Published: August 3, 2011

Update: there is a new version of this software. If you have an established Nikon Capture NX2 workflow and recently bought a Leica M9 camera, this DNG to NEF converter created by Miguel Bañón is for you:

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