The latest Leica M Monochrom silver camera
In the next few months Leica is rumored to announce a new M Monochrom camera and probably a new M240 Lenny Kravitz edition in raw/coated brass (I already mentioned those rumors back in September). FYI – Lenny Kravitz is a Leica shooter:
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Eugene Zaikonnikov added a digital sensor from a Canon Rebel camera to his Leica M4 rangefinder. Detailed information, including source code, schematics and few sample photos can be found on GitHub. Additional details on the project are available on Rangefinderforum.
There is already a Kickstarter project for the development a 3D-module to convert a Leica M3 camera to digital by using the sensor of a Sony a7 inside.
Adobe released Camera Raw 8.7 and DNG Converter 8.7 RC (release candidate) with support for the following Leica related products:
The CC version can be downloaded here, the CS6 version is available here.
Street Photography is one of the most beloved photographic genres, both from general public and photo enthusiasts. It’s simply, in its essence, the photographic tale of life and of its most intriguing, romantic, ironic and contradictory aspects.
Leica has been and still is, due to its essentiality and immediacy, the preferred tool of the photographers who made this genre legendary. That’s why the Leica Akademie Italy has decided to create a series of workshops dedicated to the “Street”, featuring Eolo Perfido, that have immediately earned a remarkable success, and keep on being brought up in the most important Italian towns. For informations and to register: http://www.akademie.leica-camera.it/portfolio-articoli/street-photography/
The first batch of the Leica cameras announced at Photokina is already shipping and is currently in stock:
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Leica Gallery São Paulo published another promo video called Leica “100” in which they recreated some of the most popular photographs taken in the last century. The video is produced by the same agency (FNazca / Saatchi & Saatchi) that created the award winning “Soul” video last year.
Updated – the original video was removed from YoutTube – here is another link:
Leica Camera released firmware update v1.1 for the X Vario camera (the black version is now selling for $200 off). Here is the firmware change log:
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