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Just a brief Leica M Monochrom appearance on The Daily Show.
Update: Jeff Garlin did it today also on the Today Show – he had his Leica M Monochrom with him and he briefly talked about it. Clever product placement or just a guy who loves his Leica gear?
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.
Erwin 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:
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):
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.
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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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.
