Monthly Archives: September 2016

Pictures of the new Voigtlander HELIAR Vintage Line 50mm f/3.5 VM lens for Leica M mount

By LR admin | Published: September 23, 2016

The first pictures of the new Voigtlander HELIAR Vintage Line 50mm f/3.5 VM lens for Leica M mount: and few pictures of the Voigtländer VM 10mm f/5.6 lens ($1,099) with the corresponding 10mm viewfinder:

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Leica Camera and Huawei establish new R&D centre in Wetzlar

By LR admin | Published: September 23, 2016

‘Max Berek Innovation Lab’ will conduct R&D in the fields of new optical systems, computational imaging, virtual reality and augmented reality  Wetzlar, Germany – 23 September 2016: HUAWEI and Leica Camera AG today announced that they have expanded their strategic collaboration with the establishment of a jointly operated research and innovation centre, the Max Berek […]

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Invitation for “world preview of new Leica cameras” on September 30th sent out in Singapore

By LR admin | Published: September 22, 2016

A reader sent me this invitation described as “an exclusive preview session” from Leica Camera about an upcoming event in Singapore on September 30th. One of bullet points says “World preview of NEW Leica cameras“:

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The new Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f1.4 ASPH lens

By LR admin | Published: September 21, 2016

Just two sample photos taken at Photokina with the new Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f1.4 ASPH lens by www.rangefinder.com.hk – you can see the typical “Leica rendering”:

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Leica shows Leicina VC digital concept camera at Photokina

By LR admin | Published: September 21, 2016

    Leica has this Leicina VC concept digital camera on display at their Photokina 2016 booth (years ago Leica had a film Leicina camera):

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Adobe released Lightroom CC 2015.7 and Camera Raw 9.7 with some Leica fixes/updates

By LR admin | Published: September 20, 2016

Adobe released Lightroom CC 2015.7 and Camera Raw 9.7 with lens profile for the Leica Elmarit-S 1:2.8/45mm ASPH CS lens and also fixes an issue where panorama merge failed when using source files from a Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) camera. Adobe Lightroom can be downloaded here.

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Leica HG-SCL 4 multifunctional handgrip for the SL now available for pre-order

By LR admin | Published: September 19, 2016

The new Leica HG-SCL 4 multifunctional handgrip for the SL Typ 601 camera is now available for pre-order: Leica Store Miami Leica Store San Francisco B&H Adorama PopFlash Shipping will start in October 2016.

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