Just got this info from Tony at popflash.com. It appears Leica is changing the covering on the black M9 and the black and chrome M9-P due to the fact that the vulcanite covering is no longer available. It is being changed from a vulcanite to a “leatherette” which is more smooth.
Not sure if the photo above of the new Olympus OM-D is legit or not (I call fake, but maybe not) but I have to say that if the camera looks like the one above I will be in heaven…and I think that the rendering above is pretty damn accurate to what we will be [Read More...]
The Ancient – M9, 35 Summilux ASPH II, ~f/2.8, 1/350s, ISO 160 USER REPORT: Landscape Photography with the M9 Aravind Krishnaswamy I am a nature photographer. For several years that meant I mostly photographed Avians and Wildlife with some Landscapes thrown in for good measure. I recently started moving away from Avians to concentrate more on Wildlife [Read More...]
SLR Magic REALLY IS Magical…the LM 50 T0.95 ROCKS WOW! So today was the last day of the workshop in Los Angeles and I have to say that this was the most amazing workshop to date. It was a jammed packed weekend with lots of cool guest speakers, many amazing passionate attendees and lots of [Read More...]
Day 1 Workshop Report: Night shooting with the Hyperprime 50 T0.95 Woo Hoo! Day one of the Los Angeles workshop has wrapped up and with over 30 of us in attendance it was an amazing night! This is gearing up to be the best workshop yet and today we all gathered at Hatakeyama Studio in [Read More...]
Using Pentax FA Lenses on the Sony NEX-5n by Tord Eriksson - Tord’s Flickr Hi Steve, My name is Tord S Eriksson, I am 59 years old, married, and I drive buses in Gothenburg, Sweden, but I have been around cameras much of my life, but not taken more than a few shots in my [Read More...]
Traveling light in Myanmar with a Nikon V1 by Colin Steel Hey photo travel fans, I am newly returned from a week long trip to Myanmar with a twist. I decided to travel very light with a totally minimalist kit comprising a Nikon V1 with two lens kit (10-30 & 30-110), my tiny Manfrotto travel [Read More...]
World Exclusive 1st Look! SLR Magic HyperPrime LM 50mm T0.95 - For Leica M Mount Yes, it is true. Leica has some competition in the high end 50mm market…and competition is good! It looks like a Nocti…feels like a Nocti…does it perform like a Nocti? (pic below taken with iPhone) – Hello to everyone! [Read More...]
USER REPORT: A stitch in time … with an M9 by Kefyn Moss One thing I don’t see very often are stitched images using a Leica camera. Maybe this is anathema to many Leica users or maybe it’s just that the camera is so often used for a different subject matter that doesn’t suit them. [Read More...]
My favorite iPhone Photo App – Tadaa! …and it’s FREE Happy Friday to all! I’m having a great day here in sunny Phoenix AZ and happy to be out of the cold bitter weather yet again this winter. As I sat here at my desk this AM going through all of the latest info on [Read More...]
LINKS: The FIRST Fuji X-Pro 1 review, PIC of the new Olympus OM-D and more. So the 1st Fuji X-Pro 1 review is online. It has been translated with the help of Google so it will note read perfectly but you can get an idea of what the reviewer thought about it. Thanks to Vlad [Read More...]
USER REPORT: My time with the Leica M9 by Matt Draper FIRSTLY I WOULD LIKE TO THANK STEVE FOR ALLOWING ME TO CONTRIBUTE TO HIS EVER GROWING SITE, HIS RESPECT OF OTHERS OPINIONS AND SKILL LEVELS ARE VERY HUMBLE TO SAY THE LEAST. SECONDLY IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ ANOTHER M9 USER POST [Read More...]
I had three cancelations for this workshop so I now have three seats available. It was 100% sold out (20 seats) so if you wanted in and I told you all the seats were gone, THIS is the last chance! I just updated the schedule/guests/food on the workshop page HERE. So if you want to [Read More...]
- Olympus to launch the amazing OM-D on February 8th, less than a month away! YES!! Ive been following the rumors from the get go and now it seems it is pretty official that Olympus will release the OM-D (OM Digital) on Feb 8th 2012 with cameras shipping in March. No obvisouly the image above [Read More...]
What would you pay for a Fuji X-Pro 1 AND 35 1.4 Kit Lens? Lots of speculation over what the price of the new Fuji X-Pro 1 will be. When Amazon put up the camera and lenses for pre-order they listed the body only at $1699 and sold out their pre-orders in about an hour. [Read More...]
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