Leica 4k cine lenses almost official

By LR admin | Published: January 7, 2010
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leica cinema lenses2 Leica 4k cine lenses almost officialTvbeurope has an article with today's date about the upcoming Leica cine lenses - the announcement was made by Dr Andreas Kaufmann:

"These lenses have cost $10m to develop and are designed to fit the needs of future digital cameras. They can scale up to the demands of next generation digital cameras and are half the size and weight of any existing lenses on the market since they use lightweight high strength titanium materials."

More details from the article:

  • the new lenses will be officially launched at NAB 2010 (April, 2010)
  • 15 different focal lengths, ranging from 12mm to 150mm
  • delivery starting June 2010.
  • a typical lens will weighs about 1.4kg.

Click here to see previous posts on the upcoming Leica cine lenses.

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4 Comments

  1. Nobody Special
    Posted January 7, 2010 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

    Cool, most excellent.

  2. James
    Posted January 7, 2010 at 1:52 pm | Permalink

    The real question is what kind of coverage will they offer–FF still 35mm? Cinema 35mm? 70mm?

    It would be nice to have real cine lenses to use with Red’s FF still 35mm format video camera.

  3. jason W
    Posted January 7, 2010 at 2:30 pm | Permalink

    Ive just pinged leica & band pro for a full interview to find out more, with any luck bring that to our ‘Red Centre’ podcast on all things digital cinematography
    thanks for the heads up LR!

  4. LR admin
    Posted January 7, 2010 at 2:57 pm | Permalink

    Welcome Jason, let me know if you get the interview. Thanks!