Category Archives: Leica Lenses

Waiting for the new Leica 35mm Summilux lens announcement

By LR admin | Published: February 17, 2010

I believe an official Leica announcement will be made tomorrow or in the next few days before or during PMA. A new Leica 35mm Summilux lens and new compact camera(s) are expected (and maybe even more).

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Looking for a Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH lens

By LR admin | Published: February 15, 2010

Update #2: a silver 50mm Lux is available here. Update: This store in Taiwan had a silver 50mm Lux just few days ago (may still have it in stock). In addition a reader in Paris is selling his two months old silver 50mm Summilux ASPH – his email is: agreenman (at) jhminternational (dot) com. The Leica […]

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Leica M7 Hermes unboxed

By LR admin | Published: February 3, 2010

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 […]

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New Leica Summilux 35mm price

By LR admin | Published: January 27, 2010

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.

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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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