Monthly Archives: December 2019

Leica Camera elevates the 2020 Leica Oskar Barnack Award

The Leica Oskar Barnack Award is adapting a new, nomination-based submission process to further heighten the prestige of the award. The Award will now consider finalists and ultimately select winners based on nominations from 70 world-renowned photographic experts from over 30 countries. With this nomination process, the honor of being chosen as a finalist is an […]

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Deal of the day: NIK Collection and DxO PhotoLab up to 30% off

NIK Collection and DxO PhotoLab are up to 30% off today: NIK Collection 2 by DxO is now up to 30% off DxO PhotoLab 3.1 is now up to 30% off Also: Topaz Labs is now offering 25% off all products.

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Leica M10-P “White” limited edition camera leaked online

Thew French website Reponses Photo leaked the information on the upcoming Leica M10-P “White” limited edition camera:

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The Zenit M camera with Leica M-mount is now available for purchase in the US

Both the silver and black Zenit-M cameras with Leica M-mount are now available for sale in the US and are currently in-stock at zenit.store: The US price is $6,995 and it includes the 35/1.0 Zenitar M lens in a special case with collector’s card, and hardbound book.

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Panasonic’s sale of their image sensor business did not impact TowerJazz

Two weeks ago, Panasonic announced that they will sell their image sensor business to Taiwan’s Nuvoton Technology for $250 million. Initially, there was some confusion about whether the sale will also include TowerJazz, which was part of the TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co. joint venture. TowerJazz issued a press release clarifying that the company is planning to keep […]

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Leica SL2 camera sensor test results and comparison with other cameras in the same category

PhotonsToPhotos published their Leica SL2 camera sensor test results: Here are a few comparisons with other cameras in the same category (click for larger view):

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Leica digest #51

  New Leica stores in GUM, Moscow and Chadstone, Australia. A company in Japan developed lens hoods for the Elmar 3.5cm and Summaron 3.5cm screw-mount lenses. The latest Leica related videos:

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