Leica M9

“There is a quality and look to the images that no other camera system can produce.”

BJP has published their review of the Leica M9 [Specs], a full-frame (36 x 24mm) digital rangefinder camera with 18MP resolution, no anti-alias filter, a new thicker UV/IR filter in front of the sensor, ISO 160-2500, continuous shooting 2fps, 2.5-in. (230K dots) LCD, RAW.

[ Read the Leica M9 Review at: BJP ]

Leica M9

“As with all digital rangefinders used to date, one of the main issues is how erratically inaccurate object to camera distance measuring can be.”

BJP has published their review of the Leica M9 [Specs], a full-frame (36 x 24mm) digital rangefinder camera with 18MP resolution, no anti-alias filter, a new thicker UV/IR filter in front of the sensor, ISO 160-2500, continuous shooting 2fps, 2.5-in. (230K dots) LCD, RAW.

[ Read the Leica M9 Review at: BJP ]

Chalk it up to another episode of “No Photography here, (Please)” as two police Community Support Officers use anti-terrorism legislation to stop a Brighton-based photographer from taking images of Christmas lights.

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Leica S2

“For the pure pleasure factor, it has to be a clear 10 out of 10.”

The British Journal of Photography has published a brief hands-on preview of the Leica S2 [QuickPrice Check] by Adam Woolfitt.

[ Read the Leica S2 brief hands-on preview at: BJP ]

If you are having trouble printing accurate colors using Photoshop CS4 on the Mac, it’s because there is some kind of issue with printing accurate targets for profiling printers.

[ via BJP ]

Canon EOS 1D Mark IV

In Chinese, the number 4 rhymes with “death”, is therefore considered unlucky and is generally avoided. That is why you might have a hard time selling your house with one or more “4″s in the street number to a traditional Chinese family. But this superstition has, as far as I am aware of, not extended to electronic products. Canon has no problem with naming its product with the digit “4″ in it, as in “Digic 4″ and now the “EOS 1D Mark IV [Specs].” In fact, Tsunemasa Ohara, senior general manager, Photo Products Group at Canon Inc. states categorically in a BJP interview, “We don’t think 4 is unlucky.”

No, but perhaps “7″ (considered a “good” number by some cultures) is, as in the “Ghosting phenomenon” in the EOS 7D [Specs]?

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