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The new Meyer-Optik Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 II lens is available also for Leica M and L mounts

The first new Meyer-Optik Trioplan 100mm f/2.8 II lens with revised Triplet optical design is available also for Leica M and L mounts. The new lens can be purchased at B&H Photo and at meyer-optik-goerlitz.com. Additional information including specifications and sample photos can be found here. Meyer Optik Görlitz was supposed to announce six new lenses at the 2020 […]

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Skyllaney is a new lens manufacturer in England and they just released their first Bertele 50mm f/2 lens for Leica M-mount

A reader sent me a link to this new lens manufacturer in England that is making rangefinder lenses: Skyllaney. The company just announced a new 50mm Sonnar lens for Leica M-mount called Bertele (Skyllaney 50mm f/2 Bertele): Here is the press release:

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The new Voigtlander NOKTON 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical III VM lens is now in stock

The new Voigtlander NOKTON 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical III VM lens for Leica M-mount is now in stock at: Amazon PopFlash Product highlights and additional pictures:

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The FOUR lenses in the Leica MATE (Leica 28-35-50 Tri-Elmar lens)

The FOUR lenses in the Leica MATE is by Onasj (see all previous posts by Onasj): The Leica 28-35-50 Tri-Elmar (also known as the Medium Angle Tri-Elmar, or MATE) is a lens well-known for its complexity, and for the fact that it hasn’t been made in ~14 years. As one might expect for a lens that […]

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Confirmed: 7 Leica M lenses and accessories are discontinued

I took some heat from readers when I reported last week that several Leica M lenses will be discontinued. Guess what? It’s all official now. As I already mentioned, the list is actually longer and it includes accessories – here it is:

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Several Leica M lenses are no longer in production and cannot be ordered

Fotogoerlitz (www.fotogoerlitz.de) informed that the following Leica M lenses are no more available – apparently, the lenses are no longer in production: Leica Super-Elmar-M 18mm f/3.8 ASPH Leica Summilux-M 24mm f/1.4 ASPH Leica Elmar-M 24mm f/3.8 ASPH The complete Summarit M lens line (35mm + 50mm + 75mm + 90mm) There could be more lenses that […]

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The new Voigtlander NOKTON 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical III VM lens will start shipping on March 26

The new Voigtlander NOKTON 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical III VM lens for Leica M-mount will start shipping on March 26th. The US pricing is not yet available. The previous version II is currently priced at $899. The Japanese price is ¥ 135,000 or around $1,300 (the lens hood LH-8 will be an extra ¥ 12,000). The length of the […]

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