Awesome Leica

Its body is made of titanium and leather, while its monitor has scratch-resistant, sapphire-crystal glass. It’s limited to 500 units only, each with a LEICA SUMMILUX-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH. lens.

Only for well-heeled shutterbugs, Leica’s M7 Edition Hermes camera is limited to 100 and features silver chrome with brown or orange calfskin leather and a matching leather strap.

It’s similar in appearance to the M8/M8.2 with a magnesium housing, but Leica’s M9 packs a full-frame 18 MP sensor, a more intuitive button layout, and a near silent shutter.

Targeted towards Leica neophytes, the X1 is a compact camera with a 12.1 MP APS-C sensor, 2.7″ LCD with Live View, fixed 24 mm f/2.8 lens, max 3200 ISO and Adobe DNG mode.

Leica lends its pricey and prestigious name to the Pinmaster, a laser rangefinder that can “pin”-point the distance to a pin; it’s good up to 820 yards with 7x magnification and auto-dimmer.

So exclusive that you can only request it over the phone, this all-white Leica M8 will be released in very limited quantities with a price likely to be between the regular M8 and the Safari.

Not content to rest on their photographic laurels, Leica’s Pradovit D-1200 is their first digital projector; it sports a retro design, 16:10 format, 2500:1 contrast range and up to 2000 Lumen.

Leica may seem overpriced and obsolete to some, but die-hard fans are no doubt salivating over this M8 Safari, which sports brushed silver accents and a Summicron 28mm F2.0 bundle.

At 37 megapixels, the Leica S2 is the M8.2’s, bigger, more powerful brother. It’s targeted towards medium format photographers, and offers the versatility and speed of a DSLR camera.

Targeted towards well-heeled camera connoisseurs with a six grand price point, the Leica M8.2 gets luxuries such as a metal blade focal plane shutter and sapphire crystal screen.