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PHIX brings us this fascinating video on making platinum prints or platinotypes. Essentially a monochrome (B&W) printing process that provides the greatest (and most delicate) tonal range, surface quality and permanence of any printing method using chemical development. Unlike the silver print process, platinum lies on the paper surface, while silver lies in a gelatin or albumen emulsion that coats the paper. As a result, since no gelatin emulsion is used, the final platinum print is absolutely matte with a deposit of platinum and can last thousands of years - it also doesn't curl! The downside is the DMax (in this context, the blackest black) is lighter than that of silver prints.

Nick De Marco takes us on a tour of Seoul, shot on the street with a Leica M in September 2013. You can read more about his time there on his blog in part one and part two. Nice to see how happy people generally seem!

Well, it does have some Leica cameras in it... An M, MP, C, Edition Hermés and a few others.

In a <sarcasm>rare move</sarcasm> for Leica, be on the lookout for a this Leica M9-P - the Montreux Jazz Festival Special Edition (pictured). You can check it out (and buy it) at the Montreux Jazz Cafe in Harrods. Of course, there's also a special edition Moleskine notebook. 2013 marks the 47th year of the Montreux Jazz Festival which is held annually each July in Montreux, Switzerland. Read more below for related video.

Nick De Marco writes about this video, produced with a Leica M (Type 240)...

Black and white street movie of Rome, shot in one night in May with a Leica M.

On location at the beach in St. Peter Ording, Germany, Portrait Photographer Markus Tedeskino and his team use the Leica S2 with central shutter lenses to capture a ballet dancer in mid-jump.