Asian love for Leica gear continues unabated. A Hong Kong businessman paid the equivalent of nearly 667,000 US-dollars for a golden Leica special edition at a recent auction in Bangkok, Thailand. For another green version of the special edition combo the businessman forked out further 133’000 dollars, for the total sum of 30 million Thai […]
If you’re interested in the golden Thai Leica M-10 special edition, you’ll have to take part in a Christie’s auction in… Bangkok, Thailand. Altogether 30 kits were manufactured. 10 kits with a gold-plated camera body and yellow crocodile leather, along with each a gold-plated APO Summicron 50/2 ASPH and Summilux 35/1.4 ASPH. And 20 kits […]
It doesn’t happen too often that Leica announces a new camera. May 10, 2012, was an über-day in Leica terms. The German “boutique” camera maker announced a digital M rangefinder true to its very essence and stripped down to photography’s bare essentials: the Leica M Monochrom (specs), an 18MP camera with a unique black-and-white sensor […]
So you need to buy new gear. Or rather: want new gear. Best is to make it look like that’s what your woman wants: “Honey, these new presets and filters, that sensor, the glass! You’ll look amazing, you’ll love what I must have…” It’s not that easy, isn’t it. A woman has generally no clue […]
Mortgage the house? Make that trip around the world? Or instead buy a single (!) camera body with a single (!) lens?! To buy a Leica or not… There’s hardly a photographer who has never fought with this question. The issue has been beaten to death. There’s no common ground between the yeasayers and naysayers, […]
Fujifilm’s X-line with the X100, X10 and its latest addition, the X-Pro1 (specs), captures the imagination of photographers in a way not even the company did imagine. The brand Fujifilm is back in the limelight — or are the X lineup’s undeniable flaws still stronger than overall performance and feel? Get to know the flagship […]
