Voigtländer announced a new 21mm f/1.8 Ultron lens for M mount. The price is 1150 EUR. Shipping is expected in early 2013. Features: 13 elements in 11 groups with aspherical lens Full metal barrel with high stiffness and durability Manual focus only but smoothly and perfectly focusing 10 aperture blades brings you a beautiful bokeh
Some additional details on the new MS Optical Sonnetar 50mm f/1.1 MC lens for Leica M mount and is now accepting pre-orders at ¥65,000 (around $830): “It has a 2 layer multicoating on Tantalum glass. The German made iris is smooth with no click stops. It is a circular centre 14 blade iris, which should make […]
After the MS Optical Perar Super Triplet 28mm f/4 and MS Super Triplet Perar 3.5/35 Mark II lenses, Japanexposures reports that Mr. Miyazaki’s next project will be a new MS Optical 50/1.13 lens:
Adobe announced Camera Raw 7.2 release candidate with support for eight Leica S and M lenses: Lens Mount Lens Name Leica LEICA APO-SUMMICRON-M 50 mm f/2 ASPH. Leica LEICA APO MACRO SUMMARIT-S 120 mm f/2.5 (CS) Leica LEICA ELMARIT-S 30 mm f/2.8 ASPH. (CS) Leica LEICA SUMMARIT-S 35 mm f/2.5 ASPH. (CS) Leica LEICA SUMMARIT-S […]
Leica has scheduled an exclusive event in Cologne on September 17th, 2012 (the day before the start of the Photokina 2012 show). The expectations are for a new Leica M10, S3, D-Lux 6, V-Lux 4 and maybe even a redesigned Summicron-M 28mm f/2 ASPH and a new 28mm Summilux-M f/1.4.
Many Leica M lenses are currently in stock: 18mm f/3.8 Super-Elmar-M ASPH 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar-M ASPH 24mm f/3.8 Elmar M Aspherical 24mm f/1.4 Summilux-M 28mm f/2.8 Elmarit-M Aspherical 28mm f/2.0 Summicron-M 35mm f/2.0 Summicron M Aspherical (black) 35mm f/2.0 Summicron M Aspherical (silver) 35mm f/2.5 Summarit-M 50mm f/0.95 Noctilux-M Aspherical 50mm f/1.4 Summilux M Aspherical […]
A lens profile for a 28mm Summilux-M f/1.4 lens was discovered in the latest M9 firmware update: “The new firmware 1.196 for the M9 has just been released. If you code appropriately, you will find that there is a new lens code 54-1 (code 54, frame 28/90) which was not there in earlier firmwares. The M9 […]
