Category Archives: Leica EVIL/mirrorless

In an interview with BJP and AP, Leica’s chairman Dr. Andreas Kaufmann and CEO Alfred Schopf confirmed that they will be announcing a new compact mirrorless system camera (EVIL) at Photokina 2012, something I have been reporting here on LeicaRumors for a while. Some quotes: “It’s more than an idea, you will see something at the next Photokina. [...]

In a series of statements to AP, Leica UK denied any existence of the previously rumored new mirrorless system: “Asked whether Leica plans to launch a more compact system camera than its full-frame M9, a spokeswoman said there was no such system on the horizon.” On several occasions in the past few months (LHSA meeting, LUF meeting, tech support [...]

The Spanish website dslrmagazine.com and its owner Valentin Sama heve been a reliable source of photo equipment news in the past. Today they twitted that Leica is almost ready with its mirrorless camera: “Sources that usually are very well informed are telling us that Leica could have an almost ready CSC or mirrorless camera” (source) “It’s [...]

Those are the notes taken by a LUF member during a meeting between Stephan Daniel and members of the LHSA from October 2010 regrading the long expected ”digital R solution” from Leica: The new camera is at the concept stage. It will have EFV. It will be able to use M lenses, probably with an adapter. In the [...]