Category Archives: Leica T

Leica “almost ready” with its mirrorless solution?

By LR admin | Published: February 22, 2011

The Spanish website dslrmagazine.com and its owner Valentin Sama heve been a reliable source of photo equipment news in the past. Today they twitted that Leica is almost ready with its mirrorless camera: “Sources that usually are very well informed are telling us that Leica could have an almost ready CSC or mirrorless camera” (source) “It’s […]

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More details on the planned digital R solution from Leica

By LR admin | Published: January 20, 2011

Those are the notes taken by a LUF member during a meeting between Stephan Daniel and members of the LHSA from October 2010 regrading the long expected “digital R solution” from Leica: The new camera is at the concept stage. It will have EFV. It will be able to use M lenses, probably with an adapter. In the […]

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Q&A session with Leica

By LR admin | Published: September 29, 2010

The German version of the Q&A session with Leica just came online. The main points: R-solution: Leica is working on a mirrorless solution, but for financial, technical and other reasons the exact details are still unclear. S-system: three new lenses are expected – 24 mm ultra wide angle, 30 mm super wide-angle (with optional central locking) and 30-90 mm zoom. Still […]

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Leica acknowledges development of new system camera (R-solution)

By LR admin | Published: September 6, 2010

Echenique.com published a letter sent by Leica to a customer regarding the future of the Leica R lenses: “We are fully aware that you like to use your valuable R lenses on a digital Leica body in a adequate way. This need has been integrated into the development of new camera systems. We kindly ask […]

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Don’t sell your Leica R lenses yet

By LR admin | Published: May 11, 2010

I would suggest that you wait till Photokina (September, 2010) before you sell your Leica R lenses. Leica R lenses prices went down in price on eBay in the past 12 months but I think this will change very soon. As I already mentioned before, Leica did promise a R solution on a digital body and […]

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Rumor: new full frame Leica EVIL camera for Photokina

By LR admin | Published: May 5, 2010

This is the rumor I received: “It will look like the Leicaflex 18X24 prototype. Of course without mirror or the film lever and so on. It will be a VERY small system camera, but there will be a big battery grip you can use, if you want. The AF is very special, moving chip, the […]

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