New Leica Boutique coming to Camera West in Walnut Creek

By LR admin | Published: January 28, 2014

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A new Leica Boutique is coming to Camera West store in Walnut Creek, California. A official opening is planned for early March. Read more in this blog post.

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New book from Erwin Puts: Leica Practicum

By LR admin | Published: January 25, 2014

Leica Practicum book by Erwin PutsErwin Puts is working on a new 500 pages book called Leica Practicum that will start shipping in April and will be priced around EUR65 (incl. shipping). His books are usually limited editions and are hard to find which also drives the price up (see the current listing on Amazon US, Amazon DE and eBay). From his blog post:

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Updated video rendering of the new Leitz Park (Leica Camera AG headquarters in Wetzlar)

By LR admin | Published: January 23, 2014

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Leica Camera published some new renderings from Leitz Park – Leica Camera’s new headquarter located in Wetzlar, Germany (see the first video rendering here). There is still no firm date on the official opening, but based on the latest pictures it should be very soon – my guess is next month (February):

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Review: using Leica M lenses on the 36MP Sony A7r mirrorless camera

By LR admin | Published: January 22, 2014

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This review on using Leica M lenses on the Sony A7r 36mp camera is by Tom Grill (Web | Blog, click on images for larger view):

As a Leica owner, I was immediately intrigued when I saw the first announcements of a full-frame, small, 36mp, mirrorless camera from Sony with the ability of accepting Leica M lenses. It sounded a bit like a Leica aficionado’s holy grail for a second camera body: a high resolution, full-frame body with a higher resolution than a Leica M, and costing only a third the price of the Leica M 240. Of course the real question was how the Leica M lenses would perform on the A7r body. There wasn’t much concern for the longer focal lengths. These generally adapt with little or no problems. The big question was how the wide, and especially the super-wide angle lenses would perform.

The A7r does have micro-prisms on its sensor intended to deal with those sensor areas where wide angle lens problems could be expected to occur. Nonetheless, the Sony A7r could not be expected to have the built-in firmware corrections for any aberrations these lenses might display.

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Leica M8 camera teardown

By LR admin | Published: January 21, 2014

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Here are few images of a Leica M8 camera teardown. If you are interested in doing something similar, you can purchase this broken Leica M8 camera for “only” $965:

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Today Leica Camera is 100 years old

By LR admin | Published: January 21, 2014

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LEICA CAMERA CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY

Allendale, NJ (January 21, 2014) – The year 1914 marked the birth of 35 mm photography as we know it today. 100 years ago, Oskar Barnack created the very first Leica, the Leitz Camera. Now, in 2014, Leica Camera celebrates their centennial year with spectacular events, exhibitions and ground breaking products.

Oskar Barnack, an employee of the Leitz Werke Wetzlar and a photography pioneer, invented and constructed the first camera for the 35 mm film format (24 × 36 mm) in 1914. The construction of this so-called “Ur-Leica”—according to Barnack’s philosophy of ‘small negative – big picture’—revolutionised photography by giving photographers greater ease in creative vision and scope, as they previously had to rely primarily on cumbersome plate cameras for their work. Company archives dating from March 1914 show that Barnack originally gave his compact and highly portable prototype camera the name ‘Lilliput’. The original is still in the possession of Leica Camera AG, together with the negatives and prints of the first exposures captured with the Ur-Leica – which include pictures from a 1914 summer trip Ernst Leitz I took to the United States.

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New: “Work your Leica M” e-book

By LR admin | Published: January 19, 2014

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There is a new “Work your Leica M” ebook on blurb. Here are few words from the author Joeri van der Kloet:

When I switched my DSLR for a shiny black M9, a few years ago, I knew I would have to start learning photography all over again. I spent hours, days and weeks training on my focussing skills and the first moment I felt more or less confident enough, I took it to one of my weddings.

Being a documentary wedding photographer, I need to nail the action. I don’t stage any settings and only take images of real moments. That means I need to be able to focus very, very fast. Working with available light only, I use my lenses wide open most of the time, so that means focussing needs to be accurate as well.

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Buddhafield: shooting with the Leica M type 240 (guest post)

By LR admin | Published: January 19, 2014

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Recently I  purchase the new Leica M. Updating my Leica M9. With all digital cameras I have owned in the past 12 years and used professionally i have tended to push them as far as they go. There really is no point pussy footing around. I really can’t stand the comments about noise, It is like grain. For me if a picture has depth, atmosphere and compelling  subject matter you are there. This recent project I undertook was at a family retreat on Dartmoor in England. I was there with my two boys, my partner and her children. The kids ran feral and we had time to relax. The images were taken for no particular reason. Purely because I love making pictures. For me it is meditation and immensely enjoyable. At the end of the week I was able to paste them together to make some kind of narrative . An insight into the weeks events. I think it works and gives a feel without being intrusive.

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