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The Leica M9 is inspiring almost unnatural (depending on your point of view) levels of devotion and desire from members of the photo community. As PDN reports, a guy even created a website dedicated to his dream of owning one. “Like many photographers, I’d love to get a Leica M9, but it’s an expensive tool,” explains Jarle Aasland at the site’s About section. “First I’d have to sell a kidney, and then I would have a hard time convincing my wife that I really need a Leica rangefinder (it’s true, honey, I do!). Just for the record: I’ve shot with a M9 for a couple of days – and now I’m sold. My Nikons are no longer what they used to be.”
Wow, he’s got it bad.
Perhaps he, and you, would enjoy touring the factory in Solms, Germany, where the camera is made. That’s what Wired.com’s Matthew Schechmeister did, and he has written a full report, with photos by Wired.com lensman Jock Fistick.
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“A technician makes minor adjustments to the camera’s rangefinder to ensure that it is in sync with the camera’s lens. Much of the fine-tuning of Leica cameras is done with the human eye rather than computers or complicated optical instruments. Here a technician checks and adjusts the rangefinder’s focusing mechanism manually using a pattern of framelines. None of the M-series cameras has autofocus, and Leica prides itself on building manual-focusing technology that’s accurate and easy to use.”
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Dreaming of the Leica M9
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The Leica M9 is inspiring almost unnatural (depending on your point of view) levels of devotion and desire from members of the photo community. As PDN reports, a guy even created a website dedicated to his dream of owning one. “Like many photographers, I’d love to get a Leica M9, but it’s an expensive tool,” explains Jarle Aasland at the site’s About section. “First I’d have to sell a kidney, and then I would have a hard time convincing my wife that I really need a Leica rangefinder (it’s true, honey, I do!). Just for the record: I’ve shot with a M9 for a couple of days – and now I’m sold. My Nikons are no longer what they used to be.”
Wow, he’s got it bad.
Perhaps he, and you, would enjoy touring the factory in Solms, Germany, where the camera is made. That’s what Wired.com’s Matthew Schechmeister did, and he has written a full report, with photos by Wired.com lensman Jock Fistick.
An excerpt:
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