Hi all,
last Friday I got my new car, a BMW 520. As a first short trip, my wife and I drove to the rather new Leica factory in Wetzlar, only a short trip from our home, about 50 minutes on a german autobahn with hardly any speed limit.
As Leica cameras are Highend as much as audio HighEnd, you've take them for maintenance once in a while. So I took my Leica M9P and two of my wide angle primes for adjustment along.
Leits Park was opened a year ago and houses the factory, a museum with a permanent exhibition of all Leica cameras and also changing exhibitions of famous photographers, this time, Lenny Kravitz (I like his songs more than his photos of fans and paparazzi)
During the week you can also have look inside the factory. In the spacious shop one can spend as much money as in every High-End Audio shop.
Some of the pictures i took with my second camera, a Nikon D750:
My new BMW in front of the Leitz Park:
Leitz park, main buildings:
The buildings resemble two lenses or a binocular, good architecture from Gruber Kleine Kraneburg Architects, Frankfurt
Camera exhibition:
firtst Leica:
wall of fame:
famous moment, taken with a Leica (sorry for the glass reflection)
museum entrance:
I also had the chance to test their new Leica Q, 24MP full frame sensor with a fixed 1.7/28mm summilux autofocus lens, designed as the Leica M, but slightly smaller, a really marvellous camera at only 4.000€ (some of here in this forum buy cables at this price point..)
But I'll stick with my manual focus M9-P, I really love this camera and the prime lenses
Jan
last Friday I got my new car, a BMW 520. As a first short trip, my wife and I drove to the rather new Leica factory in Wetzlar, only a short trip from our home, about 50 minutes on a german autobahn with hardly any speed limit.
As Leica cameras are Highend as much as audio HighEnd, you've take them for maintenance once in a while. So I took my Leica M9P and two of my wide angle primes for adjustment along.
Leits Park was opened a year ago and houses the factory, a museum with a permanent exhibition of all Leica cameras and also changing exhibitions of famous photographers, this time, Lenny Kravitz (I like his songs more than his photos of fans and paparazzi)
During the week you can also have look inside the factory. In the spacious shop one can spend as much money as in every High-End Audio shop.
Some of the pictures i took with my second camera, a Nikon D750:
My new BMW in front of the Leitz Park:
Leitz park, main buildings:
The buildings resemble two lenses or a binocular, good architecture from Gruber Kleine Kraneburg Architects, Frankfurt
Camera exhibition:
firtst Leica:
wall of fame:
famous moment, taken with a Leica (sorry for the glass reflection)
museum entrance:
I also had the chance to test their new Leica Q, 24MP full frame sensor with a fixed 1.7/28mm summilux autofocus lens, designed as the Leica M, but slightly smaller, a really marvellous camera at only 4.000€ (some of here in this forum buy cables at this price point..)
But I'll stick with my manual focus M9-P, I really love this camera and the prime lenses
Jan