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The Leica R9 and Digital Modul R combo yields a high-quality Leica camera that can capture digital images, yet allow users to switch to film when necessary...

Leica's imaging device provides bright quality even at the edge of the image, something that's often an issue with film lenses used on digital sensor-based cameras. This is one of the few cameras that writes to Adobe's Digital Negative Format (DNG), ...

For this review, I took my Leica R8/DMR camera on a Popular Photography Mentor Series workshop in Montana and Yellowstone National Park. I took digital images of landscapes, waterfalls, cowboys, bison, and elk. I shot the same scenes with my Canon EOS ...

Converts the 35mm Leica R8 or 9R into a hybrid SLR that can shoot film or digital, Allows use of 27 Leica R interchangeable lenses, 10-megapixel CCD sensor with 1.37 focal length extension factor, Ease of use with simple, intuitive controls, Low-noise ...

5,999 price tag, plus cost of R8 or R9 camera body, Super-expensive Leica R lenses, Slow start-up, 19-MB RAW files require large-capacity SD memory cards, Small LCD monitor, Leica R bodies lack autofocus, built-in flash, and TTL flash control, Low ...

The Leica Digital-Module R produces RAW images that are sharp, colorful, have good dynamic range, and require little post processing. The back is robustly made and well engineered. Attaching a DMR to the Leica R film camera yields a new camera that ...

So much for so little

This hugely expensive little SLR goes to great lengths to achieve only a 15% increase in resolution over the pro Canon and Nikon DSLR's, and the camera suffers from a severe lack of features that we've come to appreciate from Canon and Nikon. We all miss...

A PROFESSIONAL'S 35MM WONDER CHOICE

The Leica Company made this camera based largely upon a wish list from professional photographers. For those who love the simplicity and style of the "M" series, this camera will appear to be unwieldy. It is NOT unwieldy. Handle it. Shoot with it....

R8 + DMR, 15mm Super Elmar - photography of interiors. Camera is very heavy with this lens, I use a tripod and shoot in RAW format. The flatscreen of my computer does not really show much difference between Nikon and Leica pictures. But when you make a pr...

Good design, can be used without reading the manual, sensor easy to clean. Colors perfect in RAW format. No "digital" feeling at all while working with it.

Heavy, JPG and TIFF give unpredictable results. Have to take your time (no autofocus) Battery runs out fast. High price.