Posts Tagged ‘M9’

  Cosina today announced a new lens in their family of M-mount lenses: the Voigtlander Heliar Classic 75mm f/1.8. An update to their excellent Color Heliar 75mm f/2.5, this version of the lens adds an M-mount (the original was Leica Thread Mount and had to use an adaptor on M-mount cameras) and is just about [...]

Leica has released firmware version 1.116 for the Leica M9 with the following improvements: Camera Performance • Faster zooming into the last picture taken. • Speed of SD-card formatting enhanced. • Image quality of “thumbnail” pictures improved. • SD- Card compatibility improved* • New ISO setting-related vignetting correction: strongest correction at ISO 160, and lowest [...]

Last year, on September 9, 2009 (09/09/09), Leica Camera surprised everyone by unveiling their second generation digital M rangefinder camera, the Leica M9. The photographic world was pleasantly surprised that Leica, who had vehemently denied the development of a new digital rangefinder, managed to pull this rabbit out of the hat.

February 23, 2010 – (Allendale, NJ) – Leica Camera announced today that it will bring the latest and newest Leica products to major North American cities as part of the first-ever Leica North American Road Show. Leica’s product specialists will visit 26 cities over the course of 14 weeks; the road show will commence on [...]

via Leica Rumors Check back here for my own Leica M9 review next month.

Leica, as part of the 09-09-09 Festivities surrounding the Launch of the Leica M9, threw a little soiree at Dale Photo & Digital in Hollywood, FL. Roland Wolff, Director of New Market Development for Leica Camera USA, was on hand and he brought along a Leica M9 to play with. I got there early and [...]

With today’s webcast, the NDA on the new Leica M9 and X1 cameras has been lifted. Leica had tweeted that not everything had been leaked to the web, but I saw no new surprises in the webcast (other than Seal strutting around with his new M9 and the fact that they gave him an S2! [...]

Leica’s webcast covering the new products being introduced today will be covered in this blog post. Please refresh this thread for more information. 9:02 AM – Placeholder still on the screen. 9:06 AM – Placeholder updated. Show starts at 9:15 AM. 9:10 AM – BJP reports only coffee drinking and chit-chat. 5 min to go. [...]

Leica last week sent out invitations to everyone to see their live webcast on 09/09/09 at 9:09 AM EDT to hear about their new line of products. Astute observers noticed discrepancies in the M camera portrayed in the video from the standard M8/M8.2. Add to that more rumors hitting the web, the plethora of nines [...]

Leicarumors and other sites are reporting that Leica is planning to announce a new digital M camera on 09-09-09 at 9:09 AM. The timing is serendipitous, that’s for sure. Many Leica owners are unloading their M8′s and M8.2′s in anticipation of the new M which is rumored to be full-frame. Here are some mock-ups that [...]