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The 16.3-megapixel Fujifilm X100S isn't due to ship until next month, but photographer Brandon Remler has just posted three new videos showing off the stealthy attributes of this rangefinder-style camera. Remler, who is regional sales director at Fujifilm North America, highlights the quiet shutter sound of the Fuji...
Looking for a holiday gift for that special Leica photographer in your life, even if that photographer just so happens to be you? A new Leica-commissioned oral and photographic history book entitled "Ninety Nine Years Leica," has just gone on sale at select Leica stores, boutiques, and dealers in North America.
The...
Leica made a splash as Photokina 2012 by introducing five new cameras, headlined by the Leica M, M-E and S. But it wasn't merely alphabet soup -- a lot of thought and technological innovation went into these new releases. Our founder and publisher Dave...
Ladies and gentlemen, the Leica M digital camera is here, and it is not your Daddy's rangefinder! After the first significant overhaul in three years, Leica's latest M-system camera sports a number of significant new features that are quite a departure from the Leicas of days gone by. The Leica M (Typ 240) now...
Think quickly! How much would you pay to have a USB port and an extra switch on your Leica digital camera? Did you say US$1,500 or more? If so, then you can stop reading this preview: the German camera legend would rather you looked at our review of their M9 and M9-P instead.
If, though, you're the kind of person...
Leicaphiles rejoice, Le Camera Cie, (Cie is the French version of "Inc.") has created an app that simulates the classic M series Leica viewfinder on your iPhone. The app is called Viewfinder Classic and it's available here.
Yes, the Germans can finally relax as their Euro-allies, the French, are becoming entrepreneurial, just like their Teutonic mentors. (How do you say...
There’s a new baby in the Lomography-land and it’s adorable. The Lomography Society has just hatched the Fisheye Baby 110 camera.
This little baby takes round fisheye pictures on 110 format film. The film, which which was near extinction, looks just like those small 110 film cartridges from the 1960s and 70s when Kodak was trying to introduce smaller and smaller cameras to the...
Leica is into “Special Edition” cameras the same way McDonald’s is into supersizing. With its latest offering, the $50,000 Hermès/Leica M9-P sets, it is has produced the "triple cheese whopper" of photography, complete with bacon, cheese, chili peppers, onions.
Responding to our tough economic times and the desire of the exceedingly rich to find ways to turn unstable cash into...
We recently reported on a vintage rangefinder aficionado in Miami who customizes classic cameras by adding gorgeous wood veneers to them. Now, here are a group of artists in Singapore who turn rangefinder cameras into awesome miniature replicas of Soviet era tanks.
Called the Soviet Rumble X Z*E*R*O, this "Tankified" camera creation is the result of a collaboration between...
Our own Steve Meltzer offered his provocative take on the Leica Monochrom M last week and now here's a video "review" of this $8K black-and-white shooting digital rangefinder.
But before you take this "first YouTube review of the new Leica Monochrom" too seriously, be advised that it's clearly meant as a joke.
And it does have some funny moments including the strange...
Leica has gotten a lot of press in the last few days between the record-breaking auction of a 1923 Series-0 camera for nearly $3 million, to the announcement of a digital rangefinder that shoots only in black and white: the 18-megapixel Leica M Monochrom ($7,950).
Reading these reports including what we’ve written here on Imaging Resource, I must admit my initial reaction was...
