Leica Rumors

Leica’s official response to AppCam’s allegations

By LR admin | Published: June 12, 2014

This is the official response I received from Leica Camera on the allegations that the new T mirrorless camera was somehow based on the AppCam OS concept:

Posted in Leica T| 14 Comments

Another Leica lens price increase coming on July 1st

By LR admin | Published: June 11, 2014

Leica will have another price increase on July 1st on almost all medium format S lenses, the APO-Summicron-M 50mm ASPH lens and the Silverline binoculars. Here are the details:

Posted in Leica Lenses, Leica S| Tagged Leica price increase| 24 Comments

Leica Store San Francisco to open on June 30th

By LR admin | Published: June 10, 2014

The new Leica Store in San Francisco will open on June 30th, 2014. The exact address is 463 Bush St. (almost directly across from the Dragon Gate, the entrance to China town). As you look into the store, the products will be on the left side (roughly north) and the gallery will be on the right side (roughly south). Here are few additional images of the ongoing constructions:

Posted in Other Leica Stuff| Tagged Leica stores| 4 Comments

Did Leica take the idea for the new T camera interface from AppCam?

By LR admin | Published: June 9, 2014

Few days ago I received an email from AppCam where the founder Jürgen Habenstein claims that he presented the AppCam OS to Leica Camera, but the company was not interested in implementing their touchscreen OS solution (which at that stage I believe is just a prototype). Two years later, Leica announced their T mirrorless camera with a similar touchscreen interface. What do you guys think, does AppCam have a case here? Here is the full text of the email:

Posted in Leica T| 22 Comments

The 2014 LHSA raffle is now open

By LR admin | Published: June 9, 2014

I have been on the road in the past few days and will be catching up on the latest Leica related news in the next few hours.

The 2014 LHSA raffle is now open to both members and non-members. You ca win a Leica T system or a Leica M camera body:

Posted in Leica M| Tagged LHSA| 1 Comment

New Leica accessories: soft release buttons and 32GB SD memory cards

By LR admin | Published: June 3, 2014

Leica Camera announced new “Leica branded” soft release buttons and 32GB SD memory cards. The soft release buttons are with a painted brass finish and come in four different designs and two sizes (12mm and 8mm). They can also be worn as pins on jackets (see the attached pictured at the bottom of this post). Only 1,000 of those buttons will be produced.

The 32GB Leica SD class 10 memory card offers 17 MB/s write and 24 MB/s read speed (also limited to 1,000 pieces).

For prices and availability, check our sponsors Leica Store Miami, Camera West, Pop Flash, Leica Store Palm Beach, Camera Electronic (Australia) and Red Dot Cameras (UK).

A large selection of other soft release buttons can be found here and here.

Match Technical also recently released their new ‘O’ series soft releases.

Additional images:

Posted in Leica Accessories| Tagged Leica Limited Edition| 28 Comments

A Leica Photographer on Being “Discovered” and Publishing FAIR WITNESS: Street Photography for the 21st Century by David Lykes Keenan

By LR admin | Published: June 3, 2014

A Leica Photographer on Being “Discovered” and Publishing FAIR WITNESS: Street Photography for the 21st Century by David Lykes Keenan

David just launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish FAIR WITNESS. For more information and to support the campaign, click here.

What is an emerging photographer — wait, I hate that expression. What is a rookie photographer to say when someone of Eli Reed’s stature tells him that it is time to put out a photography book?

Eli, by the way, is definitely in the big leagues. He has been with Magnum Photos for 30 years, has published two critically acclaimed books “Beirut” and “Black in America”, and he is a professor of photojournalism at The University of Texas at Austin. A retrospective of Eli’s career will soon appear from UT Press.

Furthermore, how is this rookie to take it when Eli says, “… in the future, people will be copying what he is doing.”

Posted in LR Guest Posts| 5 Comments

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