Monthly Archives: January 2010

M80turn prototype for Leica M

By LR admin | Published: January 13, 2010

This is it – it allows you to change the shutter speed with your thumb: This is still a prototype. You can see the video here.

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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

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

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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Leica cine lenses price…

By LR admin | Published: January 7, 2010

… is rumored to be around 15,000.00 EUR a piece (over 21,000.00 USD).

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Leica 4k cine lenses almost official

By LR admin | Published: January 7, 2010

Tvbeurope 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 […]

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