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December152009
A Century Of Great Gadget Design: Phaidon’s Design Classics | Gizmodo Australia
“Ur-Leica” Camera. Designed by Oskar Barnack in 1913. Led to Leica I, 1925 to 1932. Notable for being among the first cameras to take single shots using cinematic film.
Tags: /urleica, /leica /oscar barnack /Phaidon's Design Classics /camera /gizmondo
November62009
Gift Guide: Leica M9 Digital Rangefinder Camera
The Leica brand has represented the ne plus ultra of photographic excellence for nearly a century, and continues to burnish its impeccable rep with its new M9 ($7,000). As beautiful a piece of gadgetry as any we’ve come across, the M9 is somewhat of an oddity in the digital realm: it’s a rangefinder camera (meaning you don’t see through the lens to focus), is essentially all manually controlled (including focus) and is the smallest camera around to pack a full 35mm CCD image sensor. That giant sensor also explains why the M9 can capture positively massive (and gorgeous) 18.5-megapixel images — which, at about 36-megabytes (MBs) a snap, also means you might want to look into a new hard drive before you get snap happy. Nicely, the M9 can also accommodate any existing M-series lenses dating back to 1950s, a further enticement for any film Leica enthusiasts who are still sitting on the digital bench. Any devout shutterbug would kill or die to have one (and considering its $7,000 price tag, it’ll surely cross some minds), though casual shooters who aren’t comfortable messing with ISO, aperture and shutterspeed settings should likely opt for a DSLR with more automatic controls.
Tags: /leica /cost no object gift /Leica M9 /rangefinder /camera
December82008
Adapter Puts Leica Lenses on Micro Four Thirds Cameras | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
It could successfully be argued that the whole point of owning a Leica is that you are then able to use the (deservedly) legendary Leica M lenses. The cameras themselves are, like any other camera, just boxes. Exquisitely engineered, wonderful to use boxes, but boxes nonetheless.
So, Novoflex’s new lens adapter, which will let you put a Leica lens onto a Micro Four Thirds camera, has us rather excited.
Tags: /leica /four-thirds /adapter /camera /photography /nikon /contax/yashica /olympus /pentax /minolta /lenses
September222008
Ars Technica :: Leica makes medium-format/35mm digital hybrid with S-system »
At Photokina today, Leica announced development of a radical new digital SLR system it calls the S-system. The company’s concept marries a larger digital sensor and a 35mm-style SLR body to make “a camera that would give the quality of medium format and the handling and flexibility of 35mm,” according to Leica UK’s David Bell.
UK-based Professional Photographer says the body is somewhere between a Canon EOS 5D and EOS 1D in size. But the camera features a Kodak-developed, 37 megapixel sensor that measures 30 x 45mm. A standard 35mm frame measures 24 x 36mm, while many digital SLRs use a APS-C size of approximately 16 x 24mm. The larger size is comparable to some digital backs designed for medium-format camera bodies
Tags: /leica /digital /medium-format/35mm /camera
