Nice Video of 1954 Leica IIIf "Red Dial"

While this video isn't about an M camera, it was too nice not to share. A lovely piece on a 1954(ish) Leica IIIf "Red Dial" camera:

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Leica Sets Up Shop on Pinterest

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, the latest social media buzz comes from a site called Pinterest. What is it? It's basically a place to organize and share things you come across on the web, visually. You create "boards" to group similar topics and themes and "pin" objects to those boards. Pinning is as simple as clicking a link in your browser's toolbar when you see an interesting image. Naturally, you can browse other user's collections, re-pin their pins and of course - it all ties into Facebook (if you want it to). We noticed that Leica has set up shop on Pinterest...

More Recent Leica Related Articles

We like to troll the net for all sorts of Leica related articles, especially those that might otherwise slip under the radar. This update brings another round of some interesting articles worth passing on. What's interesting to note is that they're also mostly about film bodies and how they played a part in the lives of the photographers discussed in the articles. To say the Leica is deeply entrenched in the scene might just be an understatement...

Beverly Hills Street Photography POV

Eric Kim and Medhi Bouqua show us how it's done in Beverly Hills (Rodeo Drive), shooting strangers on the sidewalks street-style. He attached a GoPro camera to his Leica M6 (loaded with Kodak Portra 400) to record his adventure, and then edited in the photos he shot after getting the film developed and scanned:

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