Category Archives: Other Leica Stuff

The first Leica Hall of Fame Award goes to Steve McCurry

By LR admin | Published: September 2, 2011

Steve McCurry: A Retrospective from leica camera on Vimeo. Steve McCurry is the recipient of the 2011 Leica Hall of Fame award. The prize is awarded to photographers who have rendered outstanding service to the Leica brand and to the genre of photography.

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Second free book about street photography

By LR admin | Published: August 29, 2011

Thomas Leuthard (85mm.ch) just published a second free book about street photography called Collecting Souls… What Street Photography means to me. Both books can be downloaded here as a PDF document.

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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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