The catalogs for the upcoming WestLicht auction are now available online (you can now bid online until the day before the auction):
Here are some of the items listed for auction:
The new Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) camera is now shipping worldwide (Canada, France, Luxemburg, Singapore and UK). The first units also arrived in the US. Check availability at our sponsors:
LFI released issue No.2 of their new M Magazine (available also on iTunes and Google Play):
Here is the table of content:
The guys over at the Leica Store Bellevue informed me that the 12% off offer on almost all Leica gear has been extended in the US till June 30, 2015. Additional information on this savings, including a list of excluded product, can be found here.
My Muse: The 15mm f/4.5 Voigtlander Super Wide-Heliar III Lens Review by Louis Ferreira (www.500px.com/LouisFerreira)
Since becoming serious about photography I have been interested in adding an affordable ultra-wide angle lens to my kit, but there weren’t many options available for M mount that did not suffer from chromatic aberration and barrel distortion. The introduction of the new 15mm Voigtlander Super Wide-Heliar III changes that because, for the first time on M mount, there is a readily available, rangefinder coupled, ultra-wide lens that does not suffer from color shift and it exhibits remarkably low levels of distortion.
Leica issued a service advisory for a compatibility issue with the new Monochrom Typ 246 camera when using DNG files in Apple’s Photos App:
