PurseBlog.com has an article about the Leica M7 Hermes edition and gallery of what’s in the box. This is the part I found interesting about the included silver chrome 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M lens: “The unique part about this limited lens is that Leica created a new production process to silver anodize the lens’ aluminum alloy barrel […]
The new Leica Summilux 35mm f1.4 lens will cost 3749.- EUR. Not sure about US pricing yet, but as I menioned before (see post) it should not be much more expensive than the current model.
In addition to the previously posted 35mm Summilux replacement rumors I received few more bits of information: The construction of the floating element in the new 35mm Lux will not be based on the current 50mm Summilux lens. It will be similar to the floating element implementation in the latest 0,95 Noctilux lens. The new 35mm […]
Today Cosina announced a new lens Voigtländer 12mm F5.6 lens for m-mount. The lens was already listed on their website for few days. Specs: Focal length / 12mm Lens / 8 groups of 10 sheets Minimum Aperture / F22 Angle / 121 ° Number of diaphragm blades / 9 Photos Minimum focusing distance / 0.5m […]
This just in regarding the rumored new Leica 35mm Summilux lens: Will have a floating element construction to reduce focusing shift to nothing. Will be on the market in March, 2010. Will have screw lens hood like the Elmar 24. Will be a little bigger than old version (which is now coincidently out of stock @ B&H). […]
Leica should announce 3 new compact cameras soon (probably in February). Two of them will be produced by Panasonic and the third one is suppose to be Leica’s own production. Leica D-Lux 4 replacement is not expected at that point. Leica C-Lux 3 is already listed as discontinued @ B&H: Adorama doesn’t even list the […]
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):
