Comments for Leica Rumors

Comment on Ricoh GXR cartridge for Leica M lenses? by LR admin

LR admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:03:35 +0000

My understanding is that those prototypes were displayed on Ricoh’s booth at the show. This puts some validity to this rumor – otherwise why would they display it on their official booth? The Google translation is not clear – maybe I am missing something.

Comment on Nice try… by Ernest

Ernest — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:24:14 +0000

50/1.2??

Comment on Nice try… by leicamonster

leicamonster — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:00:11 +0000

silly.

Comment on Nice try… by M!

M! — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:47:05 +0000

as well, polaroid stripes? haha.

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by Hugo Sharp

Hugo Sharp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:26:54 +0000

@ Stephen B haha. very good.

Comment on Nice try… by Kurupt

Kurupt — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:26:36 +0000

hahahahah

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by TomA

TomA — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:56:01 +0000

Thanks for the info LR – this is great news, can’t wait till Monday

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by Stephen B

Stephen B — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:49:24 +0000

I updated my firmware on my M7 last week (Fuji Velvia), looks like a Kodak Tri X update coming in the near future too

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by Bobfrance

Bobfrance — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:37:30 +0000

What about an update for the M8?
If they give up on the older digital M’s already, I’d really not feel too comfortable about buying an M9 in the future.

Comment on Ricoh GXR cartridge for Leica M lenses? by kenna

kenna — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:24:27 +0000

in addition, RICOH says no plan to production these GXR units.
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20100311_353988.html

Comment on Ricoh GXR cartridge for Leica M lenses? by kenna

kenna — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:11:48 +0000

it’s shown at Yokohama CP+ camera show

http://www.digitalcamera.jp/html/HotNews/image/2010-03/11/CP+11-112-L.jpg

Comment on Ricoh GXR cartridge for Leica M lenses? by Colin

Colin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:39:04 +0000

hi everyone, this is purly a case study done by magazine “Japan Camera” (日本カメラ) in the February issue. More like a wishlist to me, since they have the GXR stuck to a bellow and even as the digital back of a Hassy SWC!

Comment on Ricoh GXR cartridge for Leica M lenses? by BO

BO — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:07:19 +0000

Lovely,

Hmm, no while it have a strange box surface, it IS a module camera, so it could be the real thing.. though it would not be hard to wrap a piece of cardboard with black plastic and a M lens, so why photoshop this.

The catch would be, the Ricoh is not a rangefinder camera and from playing with my G1 I can say for sure it is easier to focus a M lens on a M camera than anything else so far.

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:09:42 +0000

Does that mean that the Voigtländer 21mm f/4 Color-Skopar will now work better too??

Comment on Ricoh GXR cartridge for Leica M lenses? by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:25:58 +0000

sorry guys but this looks like (a very bad) photoshop work – don’t you agree?

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:08:03 +0000

Great news – thanks admin!. As aways you got it here first. Keep up the good work, I am a daily visitor.

Comment on Leica M9 mini site by Don Libby

Don Libby — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:19 +0000

I’ve just completed a multi entry journal on my blog addressing my experiences with the M9 and how it compares to my P45+ as a companion camera for landscape. Up to you if you want to include it here.

Don Libby

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by Jh

Jh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:20:02 +0000

im glad they got the firmware figured out, they still cannot supply enough cameras to satisfy demand.

Comment on Ricoh GXR cartridge for Leica M lenses? by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:59:11 +0000

looks like we may have a winner on our hands

Comment on Leica M9 firmware update to be released on March 15, 2010 by chris

chris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:34:39 +0000

ahh, that’s good news. more than i hoped for, really. if it truly does fix operation with my 28/2, then i’ll already be a happy camper–very glad to see that that specific lens is mentioned, i was afraid i’d made a very expensive mistake getting it. i am also glad to see that they made the vignette correction progressive and linked to iso–since you cannot remove it later, much better to err on the safe side on the raw processing.

and faster zooming, better preview is welcome bonus. ditto card compatibility and mac transfer–all of these affect me.

as for “free of charge”–yeah, i do feel like i’ve already paid, thank you very little. one wishes for some kind of tester’s rebate or something of that nature.

now, where’s that new 35 ‘lux?