The current Leica camera + lens specials are set to expire on March 31st (you can get a mail-in rebate when you buy selected Leica M cameras together with a new M lens – see the screenshot above). Check out the details at B&H and Leica Store Miami (see also this post).
Similar savings are also available in the UK (Red Dot Cameras) and Germany (Meister Camera).
Other ongoing Leica deals:
Underwater housings for Leica cameras are rare. Here are two new models from Subal for the Leica Q and Leica SL models:
This Leica Q camera review is by Ata Mohammad Adnan (Website | Facebook | Flickr):
It took me a good 3-4 years of photography to know about the existence of LEICA- or so I think.
Anyway, I had never thought of buying any, until Leica came out with a revolutionary camera, a high end premium compact camera. I remember owning the Fuji X100S back then but here was a camera that costed 4 times as much, but I was in LOVE and I wanted it badly.
As luck would have it, I won that year’s Sony World Photo Awards for Bangladesh, and I ended up selling my Sony A7R and the 24-70/4 Lens to get hold of a Leica Q(thanks to Leica Cyprus who gave me a great deal).
Fast forward to 2017, and I am on way to say goodbye to this little gem of a camera! Why you ask? In the current mix of things, I feel shifting to the M-system is a better option.
So, here’s my journey with the Leica Q over the past 18 months or so:
The Voigtlander Heliar 75mm f/1.8 VM lens ($699) is a good choice for portrait and general people photography as well as low light photography (see the sample photos further down in this post). No matter how experienced you are with a rangefinder camera, manually focusing at 75mm f/1.8 M lens is not an easy task and I highly recommend using a viewfinder magnifier (I do not own one and I did have many photos where I missed the focus when shooting the lens wide open). The total depth of field of a 75mm f/1.8 lens wide open at 10m/32ft is almost 2m/6.5ft. Compare this to the 1.5m/5ft depth of field of a 90mm f/2 lens and you may see another advantage of using 75mm focal length instead of 90mm on a rangefinder. Here is a picture of the focusing scale – you can see that the difference between f/1.9 and f/16 is just a few millimeters:
The Leica MP “Blue Stain” limited edition camera is already sold out. In case you liked that particular design, the Leica Monochrome “Blue Stain” is still available for sale at Meister Camera in Germany. The set includes a Monochrom Typ 246 camera with a matching Summilux-M 50mm lens. Only 10 pieces were produced. The finish is brown mordant – a ground coating wich is used by Leica to protect the metal and as a holding primer for the lacquer paint. The price including tax is €18,880, the net export price is €15,875. Here is the product description and a few additional pictures:
PhotonsToPhotos added test data for the Leica M10 camera ($6,595) to their website and you can now compare the dynamic range vs. ISO setting between different camera models and manufacturers on this page. Here are a few screenshots – the M10 is the top performer from all full frame Leica cameras except the Monochrom (click for larger view):
A new Leica MP “Blue Stain” limited edition camera (only 10 pieces produced) is now available for sale at Meister Camera in Germany for €10,840. More pictures and additional information after the break:
Update – unboxing pictures sent by a reader:
