
Sub13, makers of a number of the solely underwater housings accessible for Leica cameras, introduced the event of the world’s first housing made for the Leica M6, the revived movie digicam introduced in 2022. The M6 was manufactured from 1984 till 2002, over which era Leica produced nearly 175,000 of them. After a 20-year hiatus, the digicam returned to manufacturing in 2022 in response to the resurgent reputation of movie pictures. Now, a brand-new Leica M6 might be bought for $5,995. However what if a photographer wished to take the M6 into the ocean, a spot the place Leica cameras haven’t sometimes discovered themselves? It’s not essentially a widespread use case, but it surely’s a minimum of attainable now due to the developments of Sub13. The corporate has been making underwater housings for Leica cameras for a number of years now, together with for the M-series digital rangefinders and for the Leica Q3. Each are dripping (pun supposed) with model and provides Leica photographers the power to seize topics they’ve beforehand been barred from — these underwater. Now the corporate is including one other Leica to its checklist of supported cameras. “It is a world-first and has been over a yr in design. We’re solely doing one manufacturing run of 13 M6 and 13 M6TTL housings,” the corporate’s co-founder Matt Draper tells PetaPixel. “Every unit will characteristic a totally useful movie advance lever machined from titanium. The detailed inside actuator is about behind a curved viewing window sculpted from sapphire glass, permitting homeowners to look at the entire movement of their movie advance. The housing’s lever exactly mirrors the radius of the viewing window beneath, seamlessly mixing type and performance.”
Sub13’s model identify is a double entendre, derived from the thought of “subversive” artistic approaches to design in addition to “submarine” which honors underwater exploration. The “13” represents the letter “M.” Because the small manufacturing run exhibits, the M6 housings are going to be accessible in a really restricted capability. Sub13 tells PetaPixel that every mannequin is mil-spec engineered, that means solely the cameras we’ve got designed them for will match inside. The primary prototype of the M6 housing is presently in testing and the corporate is predicted to have its ultimate runs prepared by October 2024. It’s going to begin at $7,495 and events can attain out to the corporate immediately. Picture credit: Sub13