Robert Benson modified his Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera and attached a Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1.0 lens: This has been my obsession for more than a two months, and its now complete. The camera above is (was) a Canon 5dmk2. I wanted to use Leica rangefinder “M” lenses on it, but of course you cant, because […]
Q&A on Leica Cinema lenses (scroll down to page 50 of the PDF file). Leica M-E now also in stock at Amazon. Sarantel to supply GPS antennas to Leica. Interview with Stephan Schulz (head of Pro Imaging Leica):
The main shareholders now own all shares of Leica Camera AG. The company shares are no longer traded at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange:
Adobe released Lightroom 4.2 (download links: Mac|Windows), Camera Raw 7.2 and DNG converter 7.2 (Mac|Windows) with support for the new Leica S, D-LUX 6, V-LUX 4 and the following lenses:
There is a new version of Leica: Witness to a Century book that will start shipping later this month. Leica Camera book is described as “high quality content by Wikipedia articles“. Erwin Puts announced his latest book called Leica Chronicle. A sample PDF with a few pages from the book can be downloaded here.
Leica Camera AG settled with their last two minority shareholders after they set a cash compensation for squeeze-out. As a result, the company will be delisted form the stock exchange. With this, Leica will become a “privately owned” entity and will no longer be traded on the stock exchange. Leica’s CEO Alfred Schopf said that this will […]
Video of the Leica – Das Wesentliche event is already available online.
