Full details on the new Leica Cinema lenses can be found at bandpro. The price is not publicly announced, but you can get a quote (I just did). I am sure it will be a 5 digit number (for one lens, in US$).
Here is the actual size of one of the Leica Cinema lenses:
See previous posts on the Leica Cinema lenses here. The rumor has been around since 2008!
The Leica Cinema lenses will be on display at the Band Pro’s NAB booth. Here is a picture of the whole set which will contain 16, 18, 21, 25, 35, 40, 50, 65, 75, 100mm Summilux-C primes:
The official website is not yet updated.
Via Fdtimes
Black Leica M9 in stock now at the Leica SIS in Palm Beach (tel: 561-253-2605).
A reader sent me a link to this photo on the new travel site which could be the new Leica C-Lux 20. If true, this confirms the previous information that it will be based on the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 model. Of course this could also be the old Leica C-Lux 3 but that model did not have built-in GPS.
It still not clear what the V-Lux 20 model is all about (maybe a joke?). I only received information about an upcoming point and shoot camera, nothing else.
You can see many other pictures on http://travel.leica-camera.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1.jpg by changing the file name from 1.jpg to 2.jpg, etc. S0me of the pictures are NSFW.
Nasser Kalaji was one of the photographers featured in the new Leica travel website. This is what he wrote on his blog today:
“April 2010 Immortal Entertainment is proud to announce the commencement of a collaboration with the world finest camera makers, Leica, chosen among 12 photographers around the world, Immortal now has in its possession Leica’s newest camera to test, and to showcase our photos in a a website exclusively designed by Leica for the promotion of its new camera.”
The post contains also multiple pictures from the new Leica camera (no EXIF data available).
Going back to the new Leica travel website which seems to be based on a regular WordPress installation. If you look at one of the pictures uploaded on that site, the EXIF data shows “Leica V-Lux 20”:
Now, this name is slightly different from the expected Leica C-Lux 20, so I am not really sure what is going on here. Leica did have a V-Lux 1 model that was announced back in 2006.
You can see more pictures here and here – all taken with a Leica V-Lux 20.
My guess about the new Leica website is that it is launched in connection with the upcoming point and shoot camera Leica C-Lux 20. The C-Lux 20 will be based on the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 which already has GPS geo-tagging capabilities. Look at the pictures on the site – they are not “M or S material”.
Of course the GPS coordinates could be added manually, but why create a new site with manually entered GPS data?
The Leica C-Lux 20 is expected to be released in the next 2-3 weeks.
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.
