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New book: Eyes Wide Open – 100 Years of Leica

Leica Camera announced a new book to celebrate their 100 year anniversary – “Eyes Wide Open – 100 Years of Leica”. The book is now available for pre-order at: Amazon US Amazon UK Amazon Germany Amazon France Amazon Canada Amazon Italy Amazon Japan More about the new book:

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Upcoming Leica auctions

Four major Leica auctions will take place next month (November): → L&H Photographica Auction in Hong Kong on November 8th, 2014. → The Tamarkin Rare Camera Auction will take place on November 15, 2014 (catalog now available). → Bonhams Auction will take place on November 29th. They will be be auctioning Yevgeny Khaldei’s Leica III that took the […]

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100 years of Leica photography (new Deutsche Welle video)

Deutsche Welle published a new video on the 100 years of Leica photography anniversary:

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It does exist: Leica Summarit-M f/2.5 lenses price reduction

After the introduction of the new line of Summarit-M f/2.4 lenses at Photokina (see press release and images), Leica Camera is now reducing the price of the older Summarit-M f/2.5 models: Leica Summarit-M 35mm f/2.5: $1,695 (was $1,950) Leica Summarit-M 50mm f/2.5: $1,295 (was $1,750) Leica Summarit-M 75mm f/2.5: $1,695 (was $1,950) Leica Summarit-M 90mm f/2.5: $1,895 (was $2,150) This is probably the last […]

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Rumors: Lomography is working on a new Leica mount lens

The Redditor LeicaM6Guy shared some information on a new Leica lens from Lomography that will be a reworked version of an older model with a new construction and multicoating: “What I like: -very well built -will work better on a digital than on my M3* -great for low light -neat bokeh under the right conditions -sharpness is probably […]

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Voigtlander Super Wide Heliar 15mm f/4.5 VM III (2014) lens pictures

Voigtlander recently released pictures of their new Super Wide Heliar 15mm f/4.5 VM lens (called also model “III” or “2014” version) that was announced last month at Photokina (no pictures were available at that time):

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Leica X Edition Moncler limited edition camera

New limited “Edition Moncler” edition camera from Leica based on the Leica X (type 113) model – only 1,500 pieces will be produced. Additional details are available on this dedicated website.

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