Monthly Archives: January 2010

4K “Mystery Lenses” @ BandPro

UPDATE: on fdtimes you can see Dr Kaufman at the  BandPro “Mystery Lenses” event and few close-ups of the different lenses: “In development for three years by an international team of prominent optical and mechanical lens designers (anonymous sources point to alumni of Panavision, Leitz, Leica Canada, as well as involvement by Otto Nemenz and Band […]

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“2010 the mistery will be revealed”: new Leica cinema lenses!

Update #2: the domain name cw-sonderoptic.de is registered to Rainer Schnabel (perform a whois check for cw-sonderoptic.de) and of course he works for Leica: see this Google search. Update: a picture of some of those Leica cine lenses could be seen here (English translation). Rumors about Leica cinema lenses have been circulating for a while (see here and this link about […]

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Leica S2 unboxing from the TheLeicaGuy.com

I would like to welcome Matthew B. Harrison to the Leica blogosphere with his new site  TheLeicaGuy.com. He just received his Leica S2-p camera (one of the first commercially available units) – you can see the first shots here and of course the unboxing video:

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