David Farkas, Author at Red Dot Forum

New: Leica S Right Angle Finder by M. Leibfritz

April 25, 2013

Today, we received a unique new product to test, which Dale Photo & Digital has now made available for sale: the Leica S Right Angle Finder. Prior to discovering this product, there was no reasonable way ...

Leica Announces Price Increases for May 1, 2013

David Farkas

April 1, 2013

Today, Leica has announced that there will be price increases on a number of products from the M, S, and compact camera product line. The new prices will be in effect on May 1, 2013. The major affected i...

Grand Opening Weekend at Leica Store Miami

David Farkas

March 18, 2013

Leica Store Miami is kicking off its Grand Opening later this week with Leica Akademie photo walks during the day and talks by Magnum photographers in the evenings. With a store featuring just about every singl...

Leica Photo Adventure: Florida Keys Everglades

David Farkas

March 8, 2013

If you read Red Dot Forum or have an interest in Leica-related news, you know that Dale Photo & Digital recently had the privilege of opening Leica Store Miami, one of the first Leica store locations in...

The Leica M (Typ 240) Begins Shipping in the United States

David Farkas

February 28, 2013

At long last, the all-new Leica M (typ 240) has begun shipping in the United States. This highly anticipated camera was announced by Leica at Photokina in September of 2012 and features a host of improvem...

Leica S-System Demo Weekend at Leica Store Miami

David Farkas

February 15, 2013

As many of our readers know, Dale Photo & Digital is opening Leica Store Miami, which will be one of the premiere Leica store locations in the world. It features a 1,000 square foot gallery, workshop/studio s...

Leica Now Offering 6-Bit Coding for the Leica APO-Telyt-M 135mm f/3.4 ASPH

David Farkas

December 20, 2012

Leica has announced that they are now offering customers the ability to have their Leica APO-Telyt-M 135mm f/3.4 ASPH lenses 6-bit coded. This is a first for Leica, as previously all 135mm lenses were so...

The New Leica S Begins Shipping in the United States

David Farkas

December 17, 2012

As of today, December 17, 2012 we have received word that the new Leica S cameras have begun shipping in the United States. This is great news for a product that Leica announced in mid September at Phot...

Photokina 2012: Day 4 – Compact Cameras: Leica X2, D-Lux 6 and V-Lux 4

David Farkas

October 2, 2012

Leica is really firing on all cylinders this show. The new M is probably the biggest hit of the show. The S camera has some really solid updates and three new S lenses were introduced. But, these weren’t the on...

Photokina 2012 – Red Dot Forum Interview with Jesko von Oeynhausen

David Farkas

September 27, 2012

It is obvious that Leica has stolen the spotlight at Photokina 2012 with a flurry of new announcements. Possibly the most exciting of their new products is the Leica M, successor to the groundbreaking M9 announ...

Photokina 2012: Day 3 – More Updates on the New Leica M

David Farkas

September 23, 2012

Obviously, there has been a great deal of interest in the new Leica M. Many people that I talk to here in Cologne think that the M is the standout product of this Photokina. Essentially, it is everything that M...

Photokina 2012: Day 2 – The Leica S (Part 2)

David Farkas

September 21, 2012

After a full rundown of the changes on the new Leica S camera which I covered in Part 1, I wanted to delve into the three new S lenses. Clearly, the announcement of the 30-90mm and the 24mm came as no surprise ...

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