3 June 2010: Leica’s professional digital camera system, the Leica S-System, has been chosen by fashion photographer Yves de Contades to create a unique set of photographs of some of the UK’s leading creative directors. Named ‘Fantasy Portraits’, the collection will exhibited in June 2010. Yves de Contades, who is also creative director of luxury […]
Solms, Germany (June 2, 2010) – The first prize in this year’s highly prestigious photographic competition, the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2010,’ goes to the Swedish photographer Jens Olof Lasthein. His award-winning portfolio entitled ‘Waiting for the future – pictures from Abkhazia’ tells the story of the people of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Southern Caucasus. The second winner in […]
Metz has listed a new Mecablitz 58 AF-2 flash unit for Leica on their website:
The results of the last WestLicht Photographica Auction are out: The WestLicht camera auction on the 29th of May 2010 ended with a sensation. Lot 544, a Daguerréotype Giroux from 1839, was sold for the unbelievable price of 732,000 Euros (incl. premiums) and is thus not only the first commercially produced camera but also the most […]
Few interesting links: Leica Noctilux-M 50mm f/1.2 for sale on eBay for US $666,000.00 and 10 “private” bids – is this some new kind of eBay scam? Rare Leica collection from a Japanese collector, now believed to be deceased. Leica M9 case, cowboy style.
The artist Tom Sachs (via collete.fr) has the following item for sale on his website: Here is the description: “Like a Leica Limited edition of 12. Tom Sachs is a sculptor from NYC. He’s known for his elaborate recreations of various modern icons such as Hello Kitty, NASA, Chanel, Hermès, etc… This is an original signed and […]
First, some Leica Summarit-S 35 mm f/2.5 ASPH sample images from Lenstip. David Farkas just published a picture of Leica S2 camera with a mounted Hasselblad V lens on his blog and the words “More to come….”
