Category Archives: Other Leica Stuff

The First Leixpo 2011 – The Leica Event You Don’t Want to Miss

By LR admin | Published: August 31, 2010

Press Release: The First Leixpo 2011 – The Leica Event You Don’t Want to Miss. West Palm Beach, FL (August 29th, 2010) – The first Leixpo event will take place on February 12th, 2011 from 9:00 am till 7:00 pm. at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre located in downtown West Palm Beach. The facility has […]

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Leica has not stopped making film cameras (rerun)

By LR admin | Published: August 27, 2010

I am not sure why, but several websites are covering again the article from the Japanese magazine Asahi Camera (June 20th issue) which states that Leica has stopped producing film cameras. As I mentioned two months ago, this statement probably got lost in translation. Here is again the official answer I got from Christian Erhardt (Vice President […]

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iPhone 4 turns into a Leica M9

By LR admin | Published: August 25, 2010

First, there was that comment from Steve Jobs that the iPhone 4 looked like “a beautiful old Leica camera”. It did not take long to see the first iPhone-Leica modification and now flickr member joey_joey_joey has an even better implementation, this time the iPhone 4 turns into a Leica M9 (probably also by using a Griffin Reveal case update: actually, those are […]

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Leica Camera AG has a new CEO

By LR admin | Published: August 20, 2010

Financial Times Deutschland (in German | in English) reports that Leica has changed their CEO again (seventh change in ten years). The new CEO is Adolf Alfred Schopf, 53 (update: here is the official press release with the correct name of the new CEO). The article has also some other interesting information: Patrick Thomas, the head of the French […]

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Leica’s 1st quarter financial results (fiscal year 2010/2011)

By LR admin | Published: August 19, 2010

Leica’s financial results for the 1st quarter of fiscal year 2010/2011 are out: “Leica Camera Group has closed the first quarter with sales amounting to € 56,176,000 (previous year: € 29,096,000). The net result of the Group for the reporting period has improved by € 16,249,000 to a net income of € 9,426,000 (previous year: net loss of € […]

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Are you a Leica and Apple fan? This one is for you

By LR admin | Published: August 16, 2010

I did not really like the first attempt to add faux leather to you iPhone in order to make it look like a classic Leica camera, but this new DIY “solution” is actually cool – you basically insert a picture of Leica camera on the back of your iPhone by using a Griffin Reveal case: Macrumors via Gizmodo

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The new version of the Leica Lens Compendium book coming soon

By LR admin | Published: August 13, 2010

Erwin Puts announced today on his blog that the new version of the Leica Lens Compendium book will be coming soon: “My new version of the Leica Lens Compendium is almost ready. The first introductory chapter can be downloaded free in the download area. The book covers the history of the company from 1849 to […]

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