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Leica M9, world's smallest full-frame digital camera, available for pre-order

By | January 26, 2010, 9:30am PST

Summary: The Leica M9, supposedly the smallest full-frame digital camera in the world, is available for pre-order now (body only) on Amazon, and the price will most definitely get you free shipping. By a lot.

The Leica M9, supposedly the smallest full-frame digital camera in the world, is available for pre-order now (body only) on Amazon, and the price will most definitely get you free shipping. By a lot.

Quite a beautiful magnesium-bodied, digital range finder camera, the Leica M9 is also powerful with its Kodak-developed 18-megapixel CCD sensor for the full 35mm format.

Other features include a 2.5-inch LCD screen, dual image processors and a new cover glass to suppress infrared light. It also supports SD cards up to 2 GB and SDHC cards up to 32 GB.

Now to what you should really know and might give you a heart attack: it’s selling for $6,995 on Amazon. I guess quality really doesn’t come cheap.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

Rachel started playing with her mother's old Brownie camera when she was just a toddler, working her way up from a Hello Kitty point-and-shoot to training on both film and digital SLRs.

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