Monthly Archives: January 2010

New Leica Shop coming up in Warsaw

By LR admin | Published: January 12, 2010

Leica stores, which I think now are officially called Leica Boutique, have already been opened in France, UK, Russia, Japan and USA (see the previous post on this topic). The next Leica boutique will be opened in the capital of Poland – Warsaw. The shop will be located in the Blue City shopping center. Besides the whole Leica photography system (includes M, [...]

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Leica courses @ Fotofusion

By LR admin | Published: January 12, 2010

Fotofusion is the the 15th Annual International Festival of Photography and Digital Imaging that take place in Palm Beach, Florida from January 19-23, 2010. Those are the Leica related classes that will take place during Fotofusion: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:00am-12:00pm The decisive Moment: Introducing the LEICA M9 and rangefinder photography with Justin Stailey Thursday, [...]

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New Leica 35mm Summilux lens details

By LR admin | Published: January 11, 2010

This just in regarding the rumored new Leica 35mm Summilux lens: Will have a floating element construction to reduce focusing shift to nothing. Will be on the market in March, 2010. Will have screw lens hood like the Elmar 24. Will be a little bigger than old version (which is now coincidently out of stock @ B&H). [...]

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Upcoming Leica announcements: C-Lux 4, V-Lux 2?

By LR admin | Published: January 10, 2010
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Leica should announce 3 new compact cameras soon (probably in February). Two of them will be produced by Panasonic and the third one is suppose to be Leica’s own production. Leica D-Lux 4 replacement is not expected at that point. Leica C-Lux 3 is already listed as discontinued @ B&H: Adorama doesn’t even list the [...]

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Some more links on the “mystery lenses”

By LR admin | Published: January 9, 2010
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Reduser has a huge thread discussing this topic. Another report on the “Mystery” lenses can be found here. The lenses are labeled as “Made in Germany”. This is the banner on bandpro.de (with more details about the lenses available here):

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