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Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsLEICA MONOCULAR FOR NASA’S APOLLO 11 LUNAR MISSION By Heinz Richter The Apollo 11 moon landing 56 years ago wasn’t just a giant leap for mankind – it was also a historical event for the Ernst Leitz optical factory in Wetzlar, Germany.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsCOMPOSITION By Heinz Richter Many camera owners take advantage of social media to show off their photographic endeavors, unfortunately often with rather questionable results. Too many people fool…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsTHE NEW LEICA M EV1 By Heinz Richter My first digital Leica was the Digilux 2. It was a huge departure from the Leica M cameras that I had used up to that time, and it brought up the idea of a Leica M camera, digital…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsERICH SALOMON – THE FIRST MODERN PHOTOJOURNALIST By Heinz Richter With the introduction of the Leica in 1925, many photographers were enabled to approach photography like never before.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsTHE LEICA PLANT IN PORTUGAL By Heinz Richter When Leica still operated their North American Plant in Midland, Ontario, I constantly ran across individuals that questioned the quality of the items produced there. The…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsLENS TESTS - DO THEY REALLY TELL US WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW? By Heinz Richter A large number of test reports on cameras and lenses can be found in many camera magazines and on the internet, and it seems that in many cases these are more confusing than…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsARE RANGEFINDER CAMERAS STILL A VALID CHOICE? By Heinz Richter A little while ago I received an email from Leica Store Miami with the question, ’Why A Rangefinder?’ It made me think.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsHORST FAAS : THE DEAN OF VIETNAM WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS By José Manuel Serrano Esparza Horst Faas in Vietnam in 1967. He is using three different 24 x 36 mm format cameras and lenses : a Leica M2 rangefinder camera with eight elements in six groups …

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsHAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD By Heinz Richter Today would have been my father’s 113th birthday. He hasn’t been with us for almost 47 years, but this date will always be a special day for me and my sister. We…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsWHAT DOES IT TAKE TO WORK FOR LEICA? Leica Headquarters at Leitz Park, Wetzlar © H. Richter By Heinz Richter The Wetzlar daily [m]ittelhessen offered a rare look at what criteria Leica uses to hire people to work at their facility in…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsPHOTOSHOP/LIGHTROOM - YES OR NO By Heinz Richter Whenever possible, we should do what we can, prior to pressing the shutter release, to prevent the necessity to make corrections to our photographs afterwards.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsELECTRONIC LEICA M6 PROTOTYPE WITH PROTOTYPE 28mm f/2.8 ELMAR By Heinz Richter It isn't very often that we have a chance to look at Leica prototype cameras, especially ones that are relatively recent.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsSPORT AND ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY WITH LEICA M CAMERAS By Heinz Richter The Leica M cameras are generally considered to be less than ideal for fast action and sport s photography.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsBODYSCAPES By Heinz Richter Throughout art history the human form has fascinated artists probably more than any other subject and as soon as photography became a viable art form, that interest transcended to…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsA VERY EXTENSIVE TEST OF THE LEICA NOCTILUX –M 50MM f/0.95 The 50mm f/0,95 Noctilux was quite a sensation when it was introduced a few years ago. In spite of its high price, it has remained as a very popular lens in the lineup of Leica lenses.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsAN UNUSUAL CLOSEUP WITH A LEICA RANGEFINDER By Heinz Richter Sometimes unusual circumstances require the use of unusual equipment. Photography is no exception.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsTHE FIRST SUPER WIDE ANGLE LENS FOR LEICA - ZEISS HOLOGON Zeiss Hologon 15mm f/8 on Leica M4-P By Heinz Richter Modern lens design techniques have presented us with a relatively large number of super wide angle lenses of 15, 13 and even shorter focal…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsELCAN (Ernst Leitz CANada) HIGH RESOLUTION 35mm CAMERA SYSTEM FOR THE US NAVY By Heinz Richter In 1952 the Ernst Leitz company (the former name of Leica Camera) established an overseas factory in Midland, Ontario, Canada. The company was called Ernst Leitz…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsONE OF THE BEST LEICA LENSES EVER MADE THE LEICA 180mm F/3.4 APO-TELYT-R By Heinz Richter Newer and more advanced production methods have resulted in a relatively large number of lenses with aspherical elements. This has led to…

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsLIGHTING FOR PORTRAITS By Heinz Richter Portraits are a form of photography that can be done in a variety of ways, requiring different skill levels.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsRARE EARTH RADIOACTIVE GLASS LENSES MADE BY LEITZ/LEICA Leica KE-7A with 50mm f/2 Elcan Leica lenses are known for their quality, state-of-the-art technology and design.

Leica Barnack Berek blogReviewsCOMPARISON OF SENSOR VS FILM RESOLUTION and 135mm, 200mm, 250mm - LEICA, NOVOFLEX, STEINHEIL, MEYER OPTIK LENS COPARISON By Heinz Richter In a television advertisement a while ago the statement was made that, if it is on the internet, it must be true. That reminded me of an article comparing film to sensor resolution.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo