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Leica M type 240 wins TIPA’s Best Professional Camera award

By LR admin | Published: July 18, 2013

TIPA awarded the Leica M type 240 camera as their “Best Professional Camera”. Back in 2009 TIPA gave the Leica M9 their “Best Prestige Camera” award (this category no longer exists). Here is the translated press release:

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New York Times photographer wins the i-shot-it.com photo competition

By LR admin | Published: July 16, 2013

I-shot-it.com announced the winner of their 2013 black and white photo competition: Damon Winter will receive the $20,000 prizer and a new Leica M Monochrom camera Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, majority shareholder of Leica Camera AG, recently acquired a 25.1% stake in the Internet based photography competition website “I-shot-it”. Here are the details:

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“Fake Leica” camera sculpture by Liao Yibai listed for sale

By LR admin | Published: July 11, 2013

The Leica Boutique (Foto Henny Hoogeveen) located in The Netherlands has listed a stainless steel Fake Leica sculpture by the Chinese artist Liao Yibai for sale. It seems that two different sized sculptures are available. Pricing is not listed on their website (available upon request) but a similar sculpture located at the new Leica LA store is said […]

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Leica Camera officially announces the release of “Leica Myself” book

By LR admin | Published: July 10, 2013

Leica Camera officially announced the book “Leica Myself” (currently available in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan):

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Adobe Lightroom 5 now comes with all Leica S, M, X, V and D-Lux cameras

By LR admin | Published: July 4, 2013

The new Adobe Lightroom 5 image editing software now comes with all Leica S, M, X, V and D-Lux cameras. Leica Camera AG made an official statement few weeks ago but for some reason I missed it and did not cover it on the blog:

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Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2013: finalists’ portfolios

By LR admin | Published: July 3, 2013

This video shows the winners and finalists’ portfolios for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2013. Thousands of entries were received from all over the world. The video and awards were presented on July 3 during Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie photography festival held in Arles, France. Evgenia Arbugaeva won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her […]

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Voigtlander Bessa A film rangefinder cameras are now discontinued

By LR admin | Published: July 3, 2013

After Zeiss discontinued their Ikon film rangefinder camera last year, the Voigtlander Bessa A models are the next victims of the digital age: three different A models are listed as discontinued on Cosina’s website. The M models rangefinders are not discontinued at that point (the A models have an electronically controlled focal plane shutter, while the M […]

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