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A Weekly Series of Critical Essays By Mike Johnston

Good morning...Today's the first Sunday in April and it couldn't have come quickly enough for us here in Wisconsin. I don't know what it's like where you are, but March here this year was both colder and snowier than December, January, or February. Naturally enough, though, in Springtime, a grumpy middle-aged man's mind turns to thoughts of Leica. Even though a local meteorologist predicted that Spring this year is going to be "several hours in June...."

Photograph by Tristan Tom

Leica Hits A Home Run 

Almost all of the significant news from last February's PMA was digital. Digital has come of age‚ it's a rapidly expanding, dynamic, highly competitive, and high-stakes market. Manufacturers big and small are jockeying for position in the new world order.

If film cameras are quickly becoming an anachronism, though, one anachronism is so well-loved that it's still accorded great deference: the legend...

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