{"id":283,"date":"2026-01-10T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/photographer-transformed-a-panasonic-lumix-g9-ii-into-a-leica-look-alike\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T13:37:24","slug":"photographer-transformed-a-panasonic-lumix-g9-ii-into-a-leica-look-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/photographer-transformed-a-panasonic-lumix-g9-ii-into-a-leica-look-alike\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Transformed a Panasonic Lumix G9 II Into a Leica Look-Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feature-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2026\/01\/09\/photographer-transformed-a-panasonic-lumix-g9-ii-into-a-leica-look-alike\/\"><img width=\"1600\" height=\"840\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-card-large size-card-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"A hand holds a black Leica camera in the center of a park pathway lined with benches and autumn trees, with yellow leaves scattered on the ground.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-src=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/01\/leica-g9-ii-diy-build-11.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Programmer by day, photographer by weekend&#8221; Cristian B\u0103lu\u021b\u0103 could not find the precise camera he wanted in the market, so he made it himself. B\u0103lu\u021b\u0103 expertly took the internal components from the Panasonic Lumix G9 II Micro Four Thirds camera and put them inside a Leica M replica body he made. It was a labor of love, and while the photographer admits the result isn&#8217;t necessarily the dream camera he imagined, the project is incredible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2026\/01\/09\/photographer-transformed-a-panasonic-lumix-g9-ii-into-a-leica-look-alike\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Programmer by day, photographer by weekend&#8221; Cristian B\u0103lu\u021b\u0103 could not find the precise camera he wanted in the market, so he made it himself. B\u0103lu\u021b\u0103 expertly took the internal components from t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollosurveys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}