The last version of the Leica Compendium book by Erwin Puts is now sold out. Around 1000 copies were printed. The old version went up in price after being discontinued few months ago.
Erwin Puts also published a 129 pages Leica Pocket Guide that can be downloaded for free here.
More Leica books can be found here.
I finally received the latest copy of LFI magazine and this is the short paragraph written in the preview section for next issue:
Here is the video of the official opening of the Leica store in Munich (mainly in German):
Opening of the Leica Store in Munich from leica camera on Vimeo.
I am having the biggest giveaway so far over at PhotoRumors.com: a Fuji X100 camera from Adorama. Head over and try your luck. Check out also the Fuji X100 review, the Leica X1 vs. Fuji X100 comparison and this detailed list of Fuji X100 camera accessories.
Good luck!
Henri Cartier-Bresson – The Decisive Moment from bt465 on Vimeo.
Cartier-Bresson achieved international recognition for his coverage of Gandhi’s funeral in India in 1948 and the last (1949) stage of the Chinese Civil War. He covered the last six months of the Kuomintang administration and the first six months of the Maoist People’s Republic. He also photographed the last surviving Imperial eunuchs in Beijing, as the city was falling to the communists. From China, he went on to Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where he documented the gaining of independence from the Dutch. Photograph of Alberto Giacometti by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The “Michaels World-Famous Camera Museum” is located in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to the wide range of unusual vintage cameras, they also have few rare Leicas:
“The museum consists of some 8000 pieces (there are approximately 2,000 on display), of which about 3000 are cameras ranging from subminiature to 12×15 inches in size. Many of the cameras date back to the late 1880’s through to recent times, and include early digital cameras.”
