Category Archives: Other Leica Stuff

New Leica store opens today in Solms, Germany

By LR admin | Published: April 12, 2010

Picture credit: Leica Camera

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New Leica website: “Cities. People. Perspectives.”

By LR admin | Published: April 7, 2010

The new site is located at travel.leica-camera.com and it displays geo-tagged pictures taken with Leica cameras and a brief story about the photo and the photographer.

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Leica Freedom Train

By LR admin | Published: April 3, 2010

More about the Leica Freedom Train: Leica helped Jews flee Nazis: fresh evidence uncovered “Ernst Leitz Optische Werke Wetzlar” short film directed by Oskar Barnack (1932). From the description: “A portrait of the Leitz factory. Following a view of Wetzlar and the Leitz factory from Kalsmunt, the film introduces several departments of the company: milling, engraving, lens […]

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Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux Asph lens (silver) now in stock

By LR admin | Published: March 30, 2010

Here is the link – this will not last long. The good news is that this lens started to show up lately in several stores – hopefully, the long wait time is over.

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Under 5% of Leica sales are film cameras (M7 & MP)

By LR admin | Published: March 28, 2010

Update: in the UK Leica film cameras make 6% of total sales (source). This percentage was given by Leica’s US CEO Roger Horn in an interview with NorthJersey.com: “Q: What percent of your sales are film cameras? A: The film cameras are running under 5 percent.” The second piece of interesting information from this interview: […]

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DIY: Leica II digicam

By LR admin | Published: March 27, 2010

Full instructions with pictures on how to fit a Sony DSC-WX1 digital camera in a Russian Leica copycat are available here (in English). At least they did not destroy a real Leica 🙂

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New Leica store in Kiev, Ukraine

By LR admin | Published: March 18, 2010

A new Leica store opened in Kiev three months ago. The address: 101 Stolichnoe Shosse, Kiev, Ukraine.

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