Finally, the new 1.116 Leica M9 firmware will be released on Monday March 15th. It seems my crystal ball from Feb 27th was right! Here is the rundown of improvements…
The improvements in the Firmware Version 1.116 are:
1. Camera Performance:
Faster zooming into the last picture taken.
Speed of SD-card formatting enhanced.
Image quality of “thumbnail” pictures improved.
SD- Card compatibility [Read More...]

I have always been one to say that you can most certainly shoot a wedding with a Leica M9. Yesterday this site was low on the updates due to me being out shooting a wedding and yes, I shot it with my M9! I also brought along the 35 Lux and the 50 Summicron. In [Read More...]

UPDATE – MARCH 10th 2010 – B&H is no longer taking ant pre-orders! If you ordered and got on the pre-order list you should get your M9 soon! Congrats for making the list!
B&H PHOTO are once again taking orders for the Leica M9. They have filled all of their previous pre-orders and are ready for [Read More...]

I have my crystal ball here and have gazed into it. What I saw was the future of the M9 and its new firmware! Well, not really but a little known fact about me is that I once worked as a Phone Psychic in the 1-900 Psychic phone craze days back when I was 20 [Read More...]

The Zeiss ZM 35 Biogon Lens Review
Hello to all! I am back again with yet another lens review for the Leica M mount! Today I will be writing about and reviewing the Zeiss 35 Biogon F2 lens. I remember when this lens was released it was causing quite the stir because it was [Read More...]

When the big bad ass Leica S2 arrived for me to test I knew that I had to take a road trip to go in search of some cool new shots. It’s a fact, shooting the same old things over and over can get old really quick and KILL your creativity. I also know that [Read More...]

I received such an interesting e-mail today that I decided to make a post out of it. I am crazy busy right now with all of these cameras and cool lenses sitting in my house but I had to take the time to write this one. The e-mail was basically wanting an answer to the [Read More...]

In this video, Russian President Medvedev talks about Photography in general and just look what he pulls out! A Leica M9 and 50 Noctilux F1

Happy Tuesday to all! I just wanted to do a quick update today to let you all know that I have been working on a “users guide” to the M9 (also some M8 info in there) that will be available as a PDF in March. I have been working on this for a couple of [Read More...]

“BOKEH – subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image projected by a camera lens”
Ok guys! I had a few e-mail requests to whip up  a test showing the bokeh from a lens on the Leica M9 and then the same lens on the Olympus E-P2 with adapter. This will not only show you [Read More...]

QUICK OUT OF CAMERA JPEG COMPARISON BY STEVE HUFF  - Olympus E-P2 with 20 1.7 and Leica M9 with 50 Summicron  - all at F2
It’s been raining all day but last night I had a dream that I went out and did some oddball comparison with the Olympus E-P2 and 20 1.7 at F2 with [Read More...]

Voigtländer 50/1.5 Nokton Review by James Klotz
We all know the drill. You just dropped a big chunk of change on that shiny new M8 or M9, and then started looking at the prices for the Leica glass. You read Steve’s reviews, poured over the other review sites, poked around in the forums, and what happened? [Read More...]

This past weekend while on my way to visit the old factories of St. Louis, MO I stopped in the very small town of Centralia, IL to visit Elmwood Cemetery. Why would I do this you ask? Well, I wanted to stop in so I could visit and photograph the grave of “Violin Annie”. The [Read More...]

I’m back home after a long day of driving, walking and running for my life. Yep, I was nearly robbed today of my Leica M9 and lenses! What a way to spend a day I was out in St. Louis, MO today just driving around and looking for abandoned buildings to photograph. Not [Read More...]

Four months with the Leica M9 – I remember it well. September 9th, 2009. That was the date that Leica announced the M9 and instead of being in the middle of it all in NYC, I was out in the Caribbean on a cruise ship. I can’t complain though. I was having fun sipping rum [Read More...]