I’ve taken some time to absorb the specs, the prices, the intentions, and the implications of the recent Leica product announcements, and have distilled them into this pithy good/bad/ugly form. Enjoy, ignore, whatever. Leica M Monochrom The Good – The sensor, the sensor, the sensor; a black-and-white sensor. This is great news. All that filter-induced [...]
Category Archives: Leica
Farewell to two Leicas
Friday, July 8, 2011
Leica prices seem to be rising, so it makes sense to hang onto those red dotted light-tight joy boxes, but finances (truthfully: other purchases) have forced my hand. I’ve just said farewell to two Leica Ms. Since getting my mitts on an MP, I haven’t put any film through either of these, so it seemed [...]
Authenticity and an aperture chameleon
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Not usually my thing, this. It’s a bit heavy handed, a bit over the top, but I was playing with the Silver Efex Pro photoshop plugin and found a variation on the ‘Antique Plate II’ setting really suited the rendering and content of this image, because it appears plausibly authentic. Or does it? It’s not [...]
Leica M8 firmware update 2.whoopdedoo.014
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
New firmware for the M8? Excitement! Miracle. Total listed improvements: Support of the new lens “Leica Super-Elmar-M 21mm/f3.4” Optimization of internal processes Wow. A new lookup for a $2k lens I’ll never own to correct for corner shading. If Leica can’t expand on ‘optimization of internal processes’, I’m guessing nobody else will have a clue [...]
