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Hi, What do you think, will there be a Leica M11-D without the display? I would love to see Leica producing cameras that even more reproduce the feeling of analog photography with the advantages of the digital world. My perfect digital Leica would be an M11 without the display and a top handle that NEEDS to be pulled to shoot the next picture, like on film cameras. That would bring so much analog feeling to it... Also there could be technology like internal film grain, halation or even different films stocks that are embedded into the raw, like Arri did with the new Alexa s35 texture controls. Just some thoughts, does anyone from Leica listen? 🙂

Leica M10 + MS Optics 36mm f1.3 "I'm hungry again. When is dinner?"

Just saw this Nickel Rigid Summar 5cm f2 while browsing for lenses on a shops site, is that front "ring" a hood or part of the lens system?

Hallo liebe Leicanianer, ich hatte gestern auf einer Fototour einen kleinen Alptraum, weil meine Leica M11 einfach nicht mehr Auslösen wollte. Habe zig mal den Akku herausgenommen und wieder reingesteckt, ebenfalls die Speicherkarte. Man hat ja so seine Erfahrungen nach all den Jahren nicht nur mit Leicakameras. Die Kamera zeigte folgende Symptome: bereits beim Akku reinstecken ohne das die Kamera an war zeigte sich das Betriebslämpchen rot, man hörte auch ein Geräusch, als wenn sich der Vorhang öffnet, aber ansonsten wurde kein Vorschaubild angezeigt, einfach gar nichts. Dann habe ich die Play und Menü Taste vor und während des Einsetzen des Akkus gedrückt und oh Wunder sie funktionierte wieder. Vielleicht war es Zufall aber ich habe sie bestimmt 2 Stunden nicht zum Leben erwecken können. Noch mal Glück gehabt! Hattet ihr das auch schon einmal?

pity its only in Japanese.. "This book is a comprehensive collection of such masterpiece lenses. In addition to historical knowledge and descriptions by photographers, we also provide information on "lens experiences"

This Android powered tablet looks cool and functional i wish Leica would sell it loaded with FOTOS or a dedicated tether/capture/View tool as an accessory for the S/SL/series

https://www.macfilos.com/2023/09/06/highlights-of-the-october-wetzlar-camera-auctions/ The highlight is obviously 0 Series No 121. I have included photos of some of the items in Wilhelm Albert's diary which also appear in the auction, such as the flip up rear door on an LTM Leica, work on which started some 20 years before a similar door appeared on the Leica M3 of 1954. There is a link in this article which will lead to the catalogue which contains many other interesting items. William

a New Leica Camera has Popped up online, Type 8262, a Hybrid Instant camera i guess its a digital camera that can output instax sized prints or its a super cool minilux style film camera that also saves a digital image looks quite small too, maybe Ricoh GR sized.

Guten Tag, mich würde interessieren, wie lange die jeweilige Leica schon genutzt wird und ob es Reparaturen gab. Da ich überlege eine Q2 oder Q3 zu kaufen, hätte ich gerne allgemeine Erfahrungswerte, wie langlebig Leica Kameras sind. Der Kaufpreis ist nicht ohne, da hätte ich gerne etwas langlebiges. Danke und Gruß

soooo i just tried using my nikon 50mm (vintage lens) with adapter on my leica m6 but, apparently, i couldn't focus. is it supposed to like that or am i missing something? and do u know any alternative other than voigtlander lens for leica?

Did Leica ever make a case for the FISON and in particular one that would attach to the camera strap as my Leica case only has the front of the case that would take a collapsable Elmar so would be handy to have a case on the strap, thanks.

Hallo, bei meiner Leica M6 habe ich mir leider mehrere Löcher eingebrannt. Hat jemand Tipps wo ich die Kamera reparieren lassen kann? Außer in Wetzlar direkt? Ich bin dankbar für jeden Hilfe Möchte meine M6 noch nicht in den Ruhestand schicken. Gruß

Hi everybody, I’m a computer science engineer who has been working, as a hobby, the last three years in a new, more precise, way of recreating film look with digital cameras. I’m posting here for feedback, in case anybody of you would like to test the application (with the M9) and show the results and your opinions. I usually shoot film photography but also I like the comfort of digital. The problem is that I’ve never been happy with existing film emulations. Mainly because of that, because they are emulations instead of simulations. METHOD USED For doing so, instead of doing a generic conversion for every camera, I’ve done a specialised conversion for the Leica M9 based on simulating the chemical process and spectrum response, instead of applying curves and other stuff. In the end, I thought, if analog and digital are just two instruments which capture light, I thought, maybe is there any mathematical conversion to make the digital to look like film? I mean, if I take the same photo with analog and digital, under exact same conditions (light / aperture / exposition /…) could I make them look exactly the same? It’s based on chemical simulation and the Leica M9’s response to spectrum. Then LUTs and finally some extra calibration. I think that it could be improved because I’ve used home made or open source tools for calibrating and so on, which are far from perfect. EXAMPLES (Analog vs Converted Digital) Following are some examples of Superia 200 and TriX 400. Click in each photo to see high resolution. DNGs shoots taken with Leica M9 (left), and FILM shoots taken with Minolta CLE (right) at same conditions (aperture / exposition / ISO). All shoots taken with Zeiss Biogon T* ZM 35mm f/2. The examples show several photos, which are the following: +------------------------+------------------------+ | original DNG | | +------------------------+------------------------+ | converted DNG | scanned FILM | +------------------------+------------------------+ | developed DNG | developed FILM | +------------------------+------------------------+ For the generated simulated negative TIFF file and the scanned TIFF file I’ve applied exactly the same develop parameters. TriX 400 - 1 TriX 400 - 2 TriX 400 - 3 Superia 200 - 1 Superia 200 - 2 Superia 200 - 3 Superia 200 - 4 Superia 200 - 5 Superia 200 - 6 CONCLUSIONS Tonal range - Biggest difference between digital and film Dynamic range - Digital is faaar more detailed in the blacks, film never gets burnt, meanwhile digital gets burn quite fast. Film has more microcontrast, it's more sharpen Digital is a little bit more contrast after developing, I imagine it’s because it reach white level faster, then, when doing autolevels with the developing program, as a result, it’s a more contrast image. DOWNLOAD I'm having a console application ready, if interest is shown it will be ready quite soon! CAVEHEATS / LIMITATIONS The program only accept DNG, because I need all the light captured by the camera, instead of a JPG already converted and really dependent on camera self made adjustments. The program only accepts photos taken at the ISO of the certain film that is gonna be used. For example, for TriX400 it will accept only Leica M9 DNGs at 400 ISO. I’ve also done tests with ISO 200 and 800, and the results were quite satisfactory but, for complexity reasons, I prefer to let it be native film ISO for the moment. Highlights are not always correct, and sometimes they look weird, mainly in color film. This is due to bayer sensor pattern and its different intensity response (for Red, Green and Blue channels). FUTURE (& PAST) WORK Leica M10-D Leica M8.2 THANKS Super thanks to the creator of LibRaw, a wonderful C++ library for working with RAW files. Any questions I’m open to answer 🙂 Best regards everybody. Tomás AKA “Camalogica”

When I reloaded my mp today, putting rewind switch to r and rewinding whole film then taking the bottom plate off, the camera makes weird noise like film rewinding at once really quickly. After reloading with a new film, the rewind switch was set to normal shooting mode again. What was the problem? Im Korean, so please understand me if I named some parts wrong

When using my Leica MP recently, I found that the shutter dial is loose in the middle of 1/50-1/60, and the shutter dial is not fixed, which annoys me a lot. Has anyone encountered this same problem? Mainly I want to figure out if this looseness affects my shutter speed and the actual use of 1/50 shutter speed 867b41d2d628c39d31e9a6fe82f98d6a.mp4

When using my Leica MP recently, I found that the shutter dial is loose in the middle of 1/50-1/60, and the shutter dial is not fixed, which annoys me a lot. Has anyone encountered this same problem? Mainly I want to figure out if this looseness affects my shutter speed and the actual use of 1/50 shutter speed 867b41d2d628c39d31e9a6fe82f98d6a.mp4

was browsing imdb and saw this movie and then looked for a bigger image of the poster : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21098850/

I've had this tumblr for a long time and used to redirect instagram pictures to it. I have given it a spring clean and now it's my gallery for my Leica pictures and street photography. http://grafichouse-blog.tumblr.com/ I hope it is interesting and it will grow over time.

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I recently purchased a brand new unopened 50 summilux f/1.4 asph lens in silver and when I unpackaged it I noticed a clear liquid on the outside barrel of the lens. I was able to wipe it off but wondered what it was? And whether I should exchange the lens for a different one? Inside the lens it looks fine at the moment and not sure if liquid would have seeped inside. Just wandered if anyone had a similar experience. I want to make sure nothing is wrong with the lens since I spent 4K on it.