RedBullIllume photo competition offers a Leica S2 equipment valued at €30,000 as a top prize. Photographers must enter their best action and adventure sports images before midnight (Central European Time) on February 28, 2010. BTW, Adorama has the Leica S2 in stock now.
Update #2: here is the response I got from Digitalrev: Dear Leica Rumors, Just to clarify the post regarding the NEW 35mm Summilux-M ASPH: – The product image was mistakingly linked to the 35mm Summilux-R and has now been changed. – This is for the current 35mm Summilux-M ASPH, not the anticipated NEW one. – […]
I believe an official Leica announcement will be made tomorrow or in the next few days before or during PMA. A new Leica 35mm Summilux lens and new compact camera(s) are expected (and maybe even more).
Maccreate’s report from the Aperture 3 press event in London states that Leica M9 support for Aperture 3 is on “top of their to-do-list” (as well as other cameras like Panasonic Lumix GF1).
Panasonic is currently running a teaser ad that displays the silhouettes of two cameras – one of them appears to have the shape of the LX3. The official announcement should be during the Focus on Imaging show in Birmingham NEC (March 7-10, 2010). At that point it is not clear if this will be the new LX4 but […]
Update #2: a silver 50mm Lux is available here. Update: This store in Taiwan had a silver 50mm Lux just few days ago (may still have it in stock). In addition a reader in Paris is selling his two months old silver 50mm Summilux ASPH – his email is: agreenman (at) jhminternational (dot) com. The Leica […]
Today Leica announced their Q3 results for fiscal year 2009/2010: “Sales growth of 17 % compared to the previous year – positive result for the quarter confirms the course adopted at the beginning of the fiscal year Leica Camera Group closed the third quarter with sales in the amount of € 48.1 million (previous year: € […]
