Leica Rumors

Not an April Fool’s Day joke: Leica M3 tins and red aluminum M-mount caps now $30 with free worldwide shipping

By LR admin | Published: April 1, 2019

The Leica M3 vintage replica camera tins and Red painted aluminum Leica M-mount body caps are now on sale for $30 with free worldwide shipping and that’s not an April Fool’s Day joke.

Update – this deal is now over.

ORDER HERE

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Leica digest

By LR admin | Published: March 31, 2019

The latest Leica related videos:

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Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2 Edition Safari and Leica 75mm Noctilux-M f/1.25 ASPH lenses now in stock

By LR admin | Published: March 29, 2019

The new Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2 Edition Safari lens is now in stock at B&H

The Leica 75mm Noctilux-M f/1.25 ASPH lens is now in stock at Leica Store Miami.

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Leica M Monochrom Typ 246 “Your Mark” limited edition camera now in stock

By LR admin | Published: March 29, 2019

The new Leica M Monochrom Typ 246 “Your Mark” limited edition camera with Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH lens is now in stock at Leica Store Miami (the set is available for sale only in US Leica stores).

Additional pictures:

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Leica may use Huawei’s RYYB sensor technology in future cameras

By LR admin | Published: March 29, 2019

With the announcement of the new P30 smartphone, the color sensing rule was rewritten by Huawei from RGGB to RYYB for getting more light in the images. During an interview at the Huawei P30 launch event, Camerajabber asked Dr. Florian Weiler, Project Manager of Optical Design at Leica, if the RYYB sensor design might be used elsewhere, perhaps in interchangeable lens cameras and the answer was yes.

Additional information om Huonei’s RYYB sensor:

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Renaissance fair with the Leica APO-Summicron-M 90mm f/2 ASPH lens and Topaz Labs Sharpen AI

By LR admin | Published: March 28, 2019

Topaz Labs released a new version of Sharpen AI. This update includes batch processing capabilities and the ability to selectively apply or remove the sharpening treatment to certain areas in your image. Topaz Labs is also launching a special sale: Sharpen AI will be on sale for $59.99 (regularly $79.99) until April 3. Here is my experience with Topaz Labs Sharpen AI:

I have always had a hard time correctly focusing fast manual lenses. My hit rate wide open is about 50%. With the latest developments in image processing and AI, I started experimenting with different tools that can fix blurry images in post-production. The first tool I used is the new Topaz Labs Sharpen AI that was announced a few weeks ago (you can get a 30-day free trial). Here are some of the results I got – I worked with the original DNG file directly in Topaz Labs Sharpen AI and I did a JPG export without any additional editing. For comparison, I also generated a JPG file in Lightroom without any modifications (click for larger view):