David Farkas, Author at Red Dot Forum

The Great Debate: CCD vs. CMOS – Part 1

February 23, 2015

Since the Leica M (Typ 240) was introduced, there's been an ongoing debate regarding the merits of CCD vs. CMOS sensors. From a technological and marketing viewpoint, Leica needed to make the move from CCD to C...

Leica Responds to Sensor Issue in M9, M9-P, M-E and M Monochrom

David Farkas

December 10, 2014

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Leica has issued an official statement regarding the sensor corrosion issue on the Truesense KAF-18500 sensor used in the M9, M9-P, M-E and M Monochrom. Basically, the issue is that if the coating on the cover ...

Leica M Edition “Leica 60” Unboxing

David Farkas

November 26, 2014

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The Leica M Edition "Leica 60" became the darling of this past Photokina. Leica had the audacity to launch a digital camera with no LCD screen and no menus, epitomizing Leica's rallying cry of Das Wesentliche, ...

Help Us Make Red Dot Forum Better and Win a Leica Swag Bag

David Farkas

November 24, 2014

We'd love to get your feedback on how you like Red Dot Forum, our new site design and our content. We also welcome your feedback on how we can make the site even better. Please take a couple of minutes to answe...

Leica X Edition Moncler Unboxing

David Farkas

November 21, 2014

Leica Store Miami received its first delivery of the limited edition Leica X Edition Moncler today, so we had an opportunity to do a little special edition unboxing. Enjoy. Click on the thumbnails below to ente...

Leica D-Lux (Typ 109) now shipping in the USA

David Farkas

November 20, 2014

The first batch of the highly anticipated Leica D-Lux (Typ 109) has just started to ship in the United States. Leica Store Miami expects to have the cameras in stock tomorrow (Friday, November 21), so if you pl...

New Firmware Released For Leica M8, M9, M9-P, M-E, M Monochrom, M (Typ 240) and M-P (Typ 240)

David Farkas

November 15, 2014

Leica has released updated firmware for all digital M camera models from the M8 to the M-P (Typ 240) in order to support the recently announced updated line of Summarit-M lenses. Hopefully, this means that the ...

Why Leica is staying at 37.5MP for the S (Typ 007)

David Farkas

November 4, 2014

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Since Photokina, I’ve read some comments online expressing disappointment in Leica’s decision to use the same 37.5MP resolution of the current S (Typ 006) in the upcoming S (Typ 007). I’m not surprised. Indeed,...

Photokina 2014: A few quick pictures with the Leica Summicron-S 100mm f/2 ASPH

David Farkas

September 23, 2014

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When I ventured by the S stand at the Leica booth on my last day at the show, I said hello to Dietmar Stuible, who was working the demo table. He is one of the optics designers at Leica and was responsible for ...

Photokina 2014: Day 4 – Leica compacts get upgraded with D-Lux (Typ 109) and V-Lux (Typ 114)

David Farkas

September 20, 2014

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There has been a lot of excitement at the show around Leica’s two new compact cameras, the Leica D-Lux (Typ 109) and the Leica V-Lux (Typ 114). Admittedly, there is tons of excitement around pretty much all of ...

Photokina 2014: Day 3 – Hands on with Leica X (Typ 113) and X-E (Typ 102)

David Farkas

September 18, 2014

The X System has been an interesting evolutionary process. First, Leica released the X1 along with the M9 and S2 on 9/9/9. The theme of that launch was that the S2 was the smallest medium format camera, the M9 ...

Photokina 2014: Video interview with Stefan Daniel, Leica Director of Product Management

David Farkas

September 18, 2014

Stefan Daniel, Leica's Director of Product Management walked me through most of the major products introduced at Photokina. Of course, with so many new cameras and lenses, we couldn't go into too much detail on...

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