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Some more links on the “mystery lenses”

By LR admin | Published: January 9, 2010

Reduser has a huge thread discussing this topic. Another report on the “Mystery” lenses can be found here. The lenses are labeled as “Made in Germany”. This is the banner on bandpro.de (with more details about the lenses available here):

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Leica cine lenses price…

By LR admin | Published: January 7, 2010

… is rumored to be around 15,000.00 EUR a piece (over 21,000.00 USD).

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Leica 4k cine lenses almost official

By LR admin | Published: January 7, 2010

Tvbeurope has an article with today’s date about the upcoming Leica cine lenses – the announcement was made by Dr Andreas Kaufmann: “These lenses have cost $10m to develop and are designed to fit the needs of future digital cameras. They can scale up to the demands of next generation digital cameras and are half […]

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4K “Mystery Lenses” @ BandPro

By LR admin | Published: January 5, 2010

UPDATE: on fdtimes you can see Dr Kaufman at the  BandPro “Mystery Lenses” event and few close-ups of the different lenses: “In development for three years by an international team of prominent optical and mechanical lens designers (anonymous sources point to alumni of Panavision, Leitz, Leica Canada, as well as involvement by Otto Nemenz and Band […]

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“2010 the mistery will be revealed”: new Leica cinema lenses!

By LR admin | Published: January 4, 2010

Update #2: the domain name cw-sonderoptic.de is registered to Rainer Schnabel (perform a whois check for cw-sonderoptic.de) and of course he works for Leica: see this Google search. Update: a picture of some of those Leica cine lenses could be seen here (English translation). Rumors about Leica cinema lenses have been circulating for a while (see here and this link about […]

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Leica S2 unboxing from the TheLeicaGuy.com

By LR admin | Published: January 1, 2010

I would like to welcome Matthew B. Harrison to the Leica blogosphere with his new site  TheLeicaGuy.com. He just received his Leica S2-p camera (one of the first commercially available units) – you can see the first shots here and of course the unboxing video:

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Best of 2009

By LR admin | Published: December 30, 2009

Those are the top 10 most visited LeicaRumors posts for 2009: Leica M9 concept sketch Leica X1 & Leica M9 specs Breaking news: Leica M9 and Leica X1 pictures leaked Leica D-Lux 5 in Photokina 2010? Leica M9 microsite, brochure and more Leica X1 info Leica M9 will not be the only announcement on September […]

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