Update: one day later, 31% of the tickets are sold out.
The first Leica M9 lottery got sold out in only 3 days. This time LeicaShots has doubled up the reward: the prize is now a Leica M9 and a Noctilux f/0.95 lens combo (or any other equivalent combo). The lottery was announced few hours ago and already 3% of the tickets are sold out.
Good luck!
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A NikonRumors forum member (thanks alphanikonrex!) has created a widget where you can get the latest [NR] RSS feeds directly to your desktop (only for Mac at that point).
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The rumor is that as of end of last week Leica has produced 4000 M9 units for worldwide distribution.
UPDATE: According to Leica US, the X1 camera will be on time for the scheduled January 2010 delivery. This rumor is busted for now.
Arlingtoncamera just confirmed the news to LR: their Leica rep has told them that the Leica X1 will be delayed until February, 2010.
I see two reasons for that delay: either Leica wants to concentrate on M9 production in order to satisfy the current demand (see this post) or the latest X1 review at dpreview was not up to par with Leica’s expectations and they are working on few final tweaks.
You can download the latest Leica D-Lux 4 firmware v2.2 from Leica’s website.
On the same page you can download also the PDF file with detailed instructions on how to update your firmware.
