Many celebrities attended the Leica Store and Gallery grand opening in Los Angeles last night. An interesting piece of information that was published in the press release: the giant “Fake Leica” sculpture by Liao Yibai located inside the store is valued at $1 million.
The new Leica Store and Gallery in Los Angeles will be opening this week. Several different events are scheduled to celebrate the new location. Leica is expected to unveil also a new special edition camera on June 20th.
Adobe officially released Lightroom 5 that can be downloaded for $79 (upgrade) or $149 (full price). If you have purchased a new Leica camera that comes with Lightroom and have not registered your copy, you will most likely be able to download the new LR5 without additional cost (at least this was the case with LR4 last year.)
The Leica Akademie in North America was launched on May 2nd 2011 and has since grown into a full line-up of one day, weekend and destinations photography trips. Now that it’s entering into its third year of offering programs, they have expanded to include Conservation photography workshops lead by photographer Bridget Besaw in Bar Harbor, Maine and Patagonia. Personal […]
Solms, Germany (June 5, 2013) – The first prize in Leica Camera’s highly prestigious annual photography competition, the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2013” goes to Siberian-born Evgenia Arbugaeva. For her winning submission, a project titled Tiksi, Arbugaeva will receive a Leica M camera valued at €10,000 and a cash prize of €5,000. The second-place winner […]
Update: please note that Leica Store LA opening is an invitation only event and it is not open to the public. With the opening of their new flagship store in LA on June 20th, Leica is planning to unveil also a new special edition camera during the event. Could this be the limited edition Leica […]
After the 4/4s version, Gizmon now offers Leica inspired cases for the iPhone 5 (EU links): The Gizmon iCA has an optical viewfinder, shutter button, conversion lens mount, tripod socket and strap holes. Here are few additional images:
