Monthly Archives: September 2016

New Leica Summilux SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH lens

Leica will soon announce the new Leica Summilux SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH lens for the SL mirrorless camera. The price and image quality of the new lens should be comparable to the Leica APO-Summicron-M 50mm f/2 ASPH lens. Stay tuned for additional overage – the first wave of Leica announcements will start this Friday. Update: filter […]

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The new Leica Sofort instant camera will be announced on September 15th

The new Leica Sofort instant camera that already leaked in the latest issue of LFI magazine is real and will be officially announced on September 15th. There will be also a Leica branded color and black and white instant film (Fuji recently announced it): The camera can work also with regular Fuji Instax film. The price will […]

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More pictures of the Leica M-P Typ 240 Titanium limited edition camera

Few more pictures of the upcoming Leica M-P Typ 240 Titanium limited edition camera: Update: the camera is now officially announced.

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Leica announces firmware updates for Leica S-System

New firmware updates are available today for the Leica S-System. Registered owners can log in to the Leica Owners’ Area and download the new firmware version 4.0.0.0 for the Leica S (Typ 007) and 2.5.0 for the Leica S/S-E (Typ 006) medium format cameras, or take their camera to a Leica Store or Leica Customer […]

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New Leica “Sofort” instant camera leaked in LFI magazine?

A new Leica instant camera reportedly leaked in the latest issue of LFI magazine. If anyone got the new LFI issue please confirm, because this looks more like a joke than a real leak. Update: I received multiple confirmations that this camera is indeed real – more information is available here. The so called “Sofort” (instant in […]

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Huawei Mate 9 rumored to have dual Leica-branded camera with OIS

Huawei is rumored to announce a new Mate 9 smartphone with a dual Leica-branded camera equipped with OIS:

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Clarification: there will be two Leica M-P Typ 240 Titanium limited edition cameras

Just a quick clarification: there will be two Leica M-P Typ 240 titanium limited edition cameras, the first one is for the Leica Store Ginza 10th anniversary and it does not come with any lenses (50 pieces, mainly for the Japanese market). The second Leica M-P Type 240 titanium limited edition camera I reported about […]

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