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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you are interested in manual handcoding of Leica M lenses, this is the place to go. Coding strips for Zeiss & Voitlander lenses are also available:
I received a tip that Leica may be introducing an updated version of the current Summilux 35mm lens model.
