Leica Rumors

Pictures of the new Voigtlander HELIAR Vintage Line 50mm f/3.5 VM lens for Leica M mount

By LR admin | Published: September 23, 2016

The first pictures of the new Voigtlander HELIAR Vintage Line 50mm f/3.5 VM lens for Leica M mount:

and few pictures of the Voigtländer VM 10mm f/5.6 lens ($1,099) with the corresponding 10mm viewfinder:

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Leica Camera and Huawei establish new R&D centre in Wetzlar

By LR admin | Published: September 23, 2016

‘Max Berek Innovation Lab’ will conduct R&D in the fields of new optical systems, computational imaging, virtual reality and augmented reality

Wetzlar, Germany – 23 September 2016: HUAWEI and Leica Camera AG today announced that they have expanded their strategic collaboration with the establishment of a jointly operated research and innovation centre, the Max Berek Innovation Lab. The launch comes seven months after the public announcement of their long-term technology partnership in the field of optical engineering, and five months after the launch of the globally successful, multi-award winning HUAWEI P9 and P9 Plus smartphones.

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Invitation for “world preview of new Leica cameras” on September 30th sent out in Singapore

By LR admin | Published: September 22, 2016

A reader sent me this invitation described as “an exclusive preview session” from Leica Camera about an upcoming event in Singapore on September 30th. One of bullet points says “World preview of NEW Leica cameras“:

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The new Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f1.4 ASPH lens

By LR admin | Published: September 21, 2016

Just two sample photos taken at Photokina with the new Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f1.4 ASPH lens by www.rangefinder.com.hk – you can see the typical “Leica rendering”:

Posted in Leica Lenses, Leica SL| Tagged Leica Summilux SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH lens, Photokina 2016| 53 Comments

Leica shows Leicina VC digital concept camera at Photokina

By LR admin | Published: September 21, 2016

Leica has this Leicina VC concept digital camera on display at their Photokina 2016 booth (years ago Leica had a film Leicina camera):

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Adobe released Lightroom CC 2015.7 and Camera Raw 9.7 with some Leica fixes/updates

By LR admin | Published: September 20, 2016

Adobe released Lightroom CC 2015.7 and Camera Raw 9.7 with lens profile for the Leica Elmarit-S 1:2.8/45mm ASPH CS lens and also fixes an issue where panorama merge failed when using source files from a Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246) camera.