Category Archives: Leica Lenses

New Leica 35mm Summilux M lens update

By LR admin | Published: January 23, 2010

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 […]

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New Voigtländer 12mm F5.6 lens for M-mount

By LR admin | Published: January 20, 2010

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 […]

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New Leica 35mm Summilux lens details

By LR admin | Published: January 11, 2010

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). […]

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Upcoming Leica announcements: C-Lux 4, V-Lux 2?

By LR admin | Published: January 10, 2010

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 […]

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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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