David Farkas, Author at Red Dot Forum

Leica M Monochrom ‘Jim Marshall’ Set Unboxing

June 15, 2017

As we recently reported, the newly released Leica M Monochrom 'Jim Marshall' Set has just started shipping. We were able to briefly get our hands on one of the first ones, thanks to its very generous owner, and...

Leica Offers New Upgrade Options for CCD Sensor Corrosion with Q and SL Choices

David Farkas

June 15, 2017

As we previously reported in early 2015, Leica began offering special upgrade pricing to owners of CCD-based M cameras who experience sensor corrosion. While some users have opted to just get their sensors repl...

Leica Announces “Jim Marshall Set” Limited Edition M Monochrom

David Farkas

June 1, 2017

Today, Leica has announced a new special edition camera set. The Leica M Monochrom "Jim Marshall Set" honors the legendary rock and roll photographer with a unique full brass M Monchrom (Typ 246) and vintage-lo...

NAB Show 2017 – New Leica Cine Lenses: Thalia, 15mm Summicron, +0.5 MacroLux and M 0.8

David Farkas

May 22, 2017

During NAB Show 2017, I had a nice chat with Seth Emmons, the Global Marketing Manager for CW Sonderoptic. CW designs and builds the incredible Leica Cine lenses and they had quite a few new items on the roster...

NAB 2017 – Checking out the New Sound Devices MixPre-3 and MixPre-6

David Farkas

May 3, 2017

If you read my pre-NAB announcement of Sound Devices new MixPre-3 and MixPre-6 mixer/recorder/USB interfaces, you'll know how much I was looking forward to checking them out in person in Las Vegas. Starting at ...

Leica Prices Going up on May 1st

David Farkas

April 20, 2017

On May 1st, prices on a bunch of Leica products are going up. For the most part, the increases aren't major, and don't impact all products across the board. The entire SL System is unchanged. S lenses remain th...

Sound Devices Announces New MixPre-3 and MixPre-6 Audio Recorder/Mixers

David Farkas

April 19, 2017

Today, Sound Devices announced a new line of audio recorder/mixers, the MixPre. The MixPre is aimed squarely at videographers, YouTubers and podcasters, with features and sound quality that will still appeal to...

Leica Announces Fix for S-Lens Focus Motors

David Farkas

April 3, 2017

Today, Leica has issued an official statement regarding the focus motor issue that has plagued S-Lenses for the last year or so. After engineering a new motor assembly, the QA team had to make absolutely sure t...

Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH Review: A New Standard

David Farkas

March 17, 2017

Back at Photokina 2016, I had the pleasure of sitting down and discussing SL lenses with Peter Karbe, the head of optics at Leica. You can click the link to read the full interview, which has some great info, b...

New Lightroom Tethered Plug-In v1.2.0.759 Available for Leica M, S and SL Cameras

David Farkas

March 13, 2017

Leica has released a new version of their Adobe Lightroom Tethered Plug-in, version 1.2.0.759. The plug-in supports the following cameras and allows tethered shooting over USB directly into Lightroom:Leic...

Adobe Lightroom CC 2015.9 and Camera Raw 9.9 Updates Released with Leica M10 Support

David Farkas

March 7, 2017

Today, Adobe released updates for both Lightroom CC and Camera Raw. In the release notes, Adobe notes that the Leica M10 has been added to the list of supported cameras. This is a bit confusing, as Adobe previo...

Leica M10 Review: The Quintessential Digital M

David Farkas

February 22, 2017

The Leica M10 might be the most ‘analog’ digital M yet. And perhaps the most faithful to the M lineage. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed Leica’s journey into digital photography over t...

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