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SLR Magic HyperPrime 50mm f/0.95 M-mount lens prototype listed on eBay

By LR admin | Published: October 8, 2012

A prototype of the SLR Magic HyperPrime 50mm f/0.95 M-mount lens is now listed on eBay. The current price after 19 bids is $1,550.00 with 14 hours left. The MSRP price of the lens is $4,288. Lens description from the eBay listing:

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Epson’s patent to display manual lens information on screen/viewfinder

By LR admin | Published: October 8, 2012

Epson filed patent 2012-186726 in Japan for a way of displaying manual lens information (aperture, focal length, focusing distance) on the camera LCD screen or viewfinder. This can be achieved with a small camera located above the lens that captures the lens information and shows it on the LCD screen:

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Canon 5D Mark II modified with a Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.0 lens

By LR admin | Published: October 7, 2012

Robert Benson modified his Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera and attached a Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.0 lens: This has been my obsession for more than a two months, and its now complete. The camera above is (was) a Canon 5dmk2. I wanted to use Leica rangefinder “M” lenses on it, but of course you cant, because […]

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Leica links/news/videos

By LR admin | Published: October 7, 2012

Q&A on Leica Cinema lenses (scroll down to page 50 of the PDF file). Leica M-E now also in stock at Amazon. Sarantel to supply GPS antennas to Leica. Interview with Stephan Schulz (head of Pro Imaging Leica):

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What happened to the Leica mirrorless system camera?

By LR admin | Published: October 4, 2012

In a recent interview with Leica executives l-camera-forum asked about the previously rumored Leica mirrorless system camera: Question: An EVIL system camera has been announced some time ago. Can we still expect one? Stefan Daniel: We do not speculate. We’re not happy about the interview which started that rumour. We feel that it rather misrepresented what was said. […]

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Leica Camera AG is now 100% privately owned

By LR admin | Published: October 3, 2012

The main shareholders now own all shares of Leica Camera AG. The company shares are no longer traded at the  Frankfurt Stock Exchange:

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Adobe Lightroom 4.2, Camera Raw 7.2 released with support for some of the latest Leica products

By LR admin | Published: October 3, 2012

Adobe released Lightroom 4.2 (download links: Mac|Windows), Camera Raw 7.2 and DNG converter 7.2 (Mac|Windows) with support for the new Leica S, D-LUX 6, V-LUX 4 and the following lenses:

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