Leica M9 microsite, brochure and more Leica X1 info

By LR admin | Published: September 5, 2009

Leica M9 minisite complete set of screenshots

Leica M9 brochure

Direct Leica M9 brochure download (PDF)

Leica_X1

The above Leica X1 pictures were extracted from the Leica M9 brochure (page 42).

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Another Leica M9 picture

By LR admin | Published: September 4, 2009

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Leica X1 specs?

By LR admin | Published: September 4, 2009

Update: I think this rumor is now busted. Those specs do not match the Leica X1 expectation (X1 will not be a M4/3 camera and will have a fixed lens).

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Leica M9 picture on dpreview

By LR admin | Published: September 3, 2009

A picture of what appears to be a black Leica M9 appeared on dpreview today. Here is the direct link to the host (photobucket) – update: image was removed.

Thanks for the tip Naomi!

At the same time Leica UK had not comments on the latest M9 and X1 leaks.

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Leica AG registered the trademark “X1” in July, 2009

By LR admin | Published: September 3, 2009

On July 21 2009, Leica AG registered the trademark “X1”:

leica-x1-trademark

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Youtube Leica video has a Leica X1 tag

By LR admin | Published: September 2, 2009

We all have seen this video by now:

What we didn’t know is that this video was tagged with the “Leica X1” keyword (Leica M9 tag is missing):

leica-x1

The video was uploaded on August 31st, before the Leica X1 leak.

Thanks J.

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Is this the Leica R-mount solution?

By LR admin | Published: September 2, 2009

Stefan Daniel (Leica Product Manager) said that “there will be a good solution that allows us to use our R-lenses on a digital body.” Today Panasonic announced the GF1 M4/3 camera and with it a R-mount adapter:

panasonic-r-mount-adapter

Here is the Leica R mount lens compatibility table:

r-mount-compatibility-table

Here are some pictures of this adapter in action:

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panasonic-r-adapter-3

panasonic-r-adapter-2

Images via stranger_than_Tokyo @ flickr

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Leica M9 made a brief appearance in Japan

By LR admin | Published: September 2, 2009

The site was taken down, but not before Google cached it. This is the original leica-camera.co.jp link and the corresponding English translation.

Leica-M9-in-japan

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