Category Archives: Leica Lenses

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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Last chance to get the “old” prices on Leica M lenses

By LR admin | Published: December 28, 2009

Leica M lens prices will be going up on January 1st. 2010. You still have few days left to get the old prices (check availability @ Adorama, B&H or Amazon): Lens Current Price New Price Super-Elmar-M 18mm f/3.8 ASPH 2,895 2,995 Summilux-M 21mm f/1.4 ASPH 5,995 6,495 Elmarit-M 21mm f/2.8 ASPH 4,295 4,395 Summilux-M 24mm […]

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New Leica M lenses pricelist (US)

By LR admin | Published: December 14, 2009

Update: the price of the Leica D-Lux 4 will go up to $799 (currently $699 on Amazon). As reported before Leica US will raise their prices on January 1st, 2010 (price increase is also expected in the UK). David Farkas just posted online the new price list for the US: Lens Current Price New Price […]

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Noctilux does NYC

By LR admin | Published: December 10, 2009
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