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Leica V-Lux 40 now in stock

By LR admin | Published: May 17, 2012

The new Leica V-Lux 40 compact digital camera is currently in stock at B&H Photo and Dale Photo & Digital.

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Leica announces opening of extended premium retail facilities in Bruton Place, Mayfair

By LR admin | Published: May 17, 2012

Café Optik and Leica Client Care now offering a unique, personal service as part of Leica Store Mayfair experience; discreet new studio open for professional photographers 17 May 2012:  Leica Camera Ltd has today announced the opening of its extended retail premises encompassing three buildings in Bruton Place, Mayfair, providing Leica customers with a range […]

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Poll: Who is buying the new Leica products?

By LR admin | Published: May 16, 2012

I am just curious how many readers are planning on buying the newly announced Leica products – this post contains three different polls for the M9-M, X2 and 50mm Cron lens. I did not include the M9-P Hermes limited edition because they will be all sold out anyway. Leica M Monochrom, 18MP B&W only sensor, […]

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Podcast with Jono Slack on the latest Leica products

By LR admin | Published: May 15, 2012

Serious Compacts published a very interesting podcast with Jono Slack on the latest Leica products that were announced last week. The full podcast is also available for free on iTunes.

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Record number of entries for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2012

By LR admin | Published: May 15, 2012

This year Leica Camera AG reported a record number of entries for the 2012 Oskar Barnack award – so far there are 2,800 submissions from 101 different countries compared to 2000 entries for last year. The winners will be announced on 20 June 2012.

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Leica M10 with video at Photokina, mirrorless interchangeable lens camera could be delayed

By LR admin | Published: May 12, 2012

In an interview with BJP, Dr. Andreas Kaufmann hinted that Leica may not be ready with their new mirrorless interchangeable lens camera system for Photokina 2012: “We can’t produce enough of what we already have. There’s a project in place, but no timeframe. But you should come to our event on 17 September to see what we have.” […]

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New world record for the most expensive camera: 2,790,000 USD for Leica 0-Serie

By LR admin | Published: May 12, 2012

At the May 12th WestLicht Photographica auction in Vienna, a new record was set for the most expensive camera in the world – this Leica 0-Serie camera with serial number 116 sold for 2,160,000 EUR (around 2,790,000 USD). The previous world record  was also for a Leica 0-Serie Nr.107 that sold for 1.3 million EUR (1.9 million USD) […]

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