Today Cosina announced a new lens Voigtländer 12mm F5.6 lens for m-mount. The lens was already listed on their website for few days.
Specs:
Key Features, price after the break:
The initial Leica X1 February delay report turns out to be true – today B&H updated the Leica X1 availability from January 2010 to February 2010:
Three new limited edition Leicas will be introduced for the 60th Anniversary of People’s Republic of China (click on image to enlarge).
Leica D-Lux 4:
Leica MP and 50mm Lux:
Leica M8.2 body only:
Update: the black M9 is now labeled as “Usually ships within 1 to 4 weeks”. A reader has ordered one on 1/15/09 from Amazon and he received an email back with an estimated delivery of 1/29-2/9 (thanks for the update J):
The steel grey M9 is now back to “signup to be notified” (and not taking orders). It seems that Amazon only take orders when they think they will have something coming soon:
I found this Leica video on the Facebook page of Leica Historical Society of America:
Amazon started to take pre-orders for Leica M9 again – currently labeled “Temporarily out of stock”. Not sure what this means exactly (maybe they are expecting a shipment?), but they don’t charge your credit card until they actually ship the item:
This is it – it allows you to change the shutter speed with your thumb:
This is still a prototype. You can see the video here.
