Tag: Leica X Vario

As Wayne says "Treasure your exceptions". Even at the shallow end the images that small Leicas produce is more than enough to make you happy.

For Jean Perenet Leicas act as perfect light visual notebooks for recording life.

Some things in life, once discovered, can never be forgotten. Finding the world of Leica can be like that…

I set my sights on the much-maligned Leica X Vario. Just 18 months ago, I traded in the Panasonic kit and carried home an almost-new X Vario…

The Leica X Vario was introduced in 2013 and received a lukewarm reaction. By early 2014, many photographers were having second thoughts. This is what Macfilos had to say in January 2014...

I am strapped in for the flight to Dibrugarh. Along with me for the ride are two stars from the Leica firmament stowed in the overhead bin, two of the finest M-Mount creations ⏤ the Leica 35mm Summilux-M f/1.4 and the Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/0.95 ⏤ on their [first trip to Mechuka] in Arunachal. Tucked in with them is the Leica M11.

Almost five years later, in 2022, the four of us reunited for a repeat trip to Mechuka. Gudi confessed that even now she gets nightmares of this near-fatal indident in 2018. Baro and Piliya hadn’t spoken about it to anyone...

The writing has been on the wall for the Leica CL for over a year. Now it is lit in neon. Sad to say, this looks like the end of the road for Leica's 12-year dalliance with the APS-C crop sensor...

Farhiz takes his beloved Leica X Vario on a personal tour of Vienna, one of the centres of Western culture...

Our second look this week at the maligned but popular Leica X Vario. It's a classic in the making and enthusiastic owner, John Shingleton, takes a trip down memory lane...

Once maligned, now acclaimed: The Leica X Vario makes a pilgrimage to Budapest...

Beautiful at any time of the year, the Plitvice Lakes National Park in central Croatia is internationally renowned for...