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Leica Camera AG takes over Sinar Photography AG, the Swiss manufacturer of view cameras

By LR admin | Published: November 26, 2013

Leica Camera AG bought Sinar Photography AG – a manufacturer of view cameras:

Posted in Leica Press Releases| Tagged Sinar| 6 Comments

Leica M camera designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson for RED sold for $1.8 million

By LR admin | Published: November 24, 2013

The Leica M custom made camera by Jony Ive and Marc Newson for (RED) sold for $1,805,000 at Sotheby’s charity auction in New York (hammer price with buyer’s premium). The camera was initially expected to reach $500,000 to $750,000. The (RED) auction at Sotheby’s raised a total of $26.2 million to fight AIDS in Africa.

Posted in Leica M| Tagged Leica Limited Edition, Leica M 240 (RED) camera, Leica M designed by Jony Ive| 13 Comments

List of Leica lenses impacted by the price increase

By LR admin | Published: November 22, 2013

Here is a list of the Leica M and S lenses that will get a price increase on January 1st, 2014:

Lens	Old price	New price
Tri-Elmar M 16-18-21 / f 4.0 ASPH	$5,350	$5,450
18mm / f3.8 ASPH	$3,195	$3,250
21mm / f1.4 ASPH	$7,250	$7,650
24mm / f1.4 ASPH	$7,250	$7,550
24mm / f3.8 ASPH	$2,595	$2,650
28mm / f2.8 ASPH. M-Elmarit	$2,195	$2,250
35mm / f2.0 ASPH Silver	$3,195	$3,350
50mm / f1.4 ASPH Silver	$3,995	$4,250
50mm / f2.0	$2,295	$2,350
50mm / f2.5 Black	$1,650	$1,750
90mm / f2.5 Black	$1,950	$2,150
90 mm/ f4 Macro-Elmar	$3,995	$4,150
135mm / f3.4 APO	$3,650	$3,850
Vario-Elmar-S 1.3.5-5.6/30-90 ASPH	$10,900	$11,400
Summarit-S 1:2.5/35 ASPH	$6,750	$6,950

Here is a list of Leica M lenses that are currently in stock at the Leica Store Miami:

Posted in Leica Lenses| Tagged Leica price increase| 15 Comments

Another Leica price increase coming on January 1st, 2014

By LR admin | Published: November 22, 2013

Update: here is the list of lenses that will be impacted by this price increase.

Leica will have another price increase on January 1st, 2014 on selected M lenses. I will soon have the list of products that will be impacted. The good news is that almost all of the Leica M lenses are now in stock at B&H and Adorama.

Curious to know what the Leica prices were 27 years ago? See this post:

Posted in Leica Lenses| Tagged Leica price increase| 1 Comment

Leica T (701) camera without a rangefinder coming soon

By LR admin | Published: November 21, 2013

The Leica T (701) will be a new camera without a rangefinder. I am not sure if the Leica T will be an interchangeable lens camera (most likely) or it will have a fixed lens like the Sony RX1. The official announcement should be in the next few months. I am pretty sure that it will not have a Micro Four Thirds sensor (Leica executives have repeatedly said that they will not produce a MFT camera).

A new Leica camera that will be placed between the M and X lines has been rumored for years. After the last fiasco with UK media, in a recent interview with the Australian magazine Camera Leica’s CEO Alfred Schopf confirmed again that they will come up with a new compact system camera:

Posted in Leica T| 8 Comments

The Leica M 240 (RED) camera designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson could reach $500,000 to $750,000 in acution

By LR admin | Published: November 21, 2013

The New York Times reports that the one-of-a-kind Leica M 240 designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson could reach an estimated $500,000 to $750,000 during the (RED) charity auction on November 23;

“According to a Leica spokesman, the Leica M (RED) camera took two years to design and build and is the only camera ever designed by Mr. Ive. It’s also, as far as I can tell, the only digital camera to cost more than half a million dollars. Even by Leica’s standards, this is an expensive camera.
The special-edition Leica camera is made of die-cast magnesium and anodized aluminum, and comes with a 50mm f2.0 lens.”

Posted in Leica M| Tagged Leica Limited Edition, Leica M 240 (RED) camera, Leica M designed by Jony Ive| 6 Comments

Digiscoping with the Leica M 240 and Leica spotting scope APO-Televid 82

By LR admin | Published: November 20, 2013

This guest post on digiscoping with the Leica M 240 ($6,950) and the Leica spotting scope APO-Televid 82 ($2,999) is by Gunnar Olssons Foto:

When Leica Camera Inc. released the new M camera (240) with live view and movie function arose the possibility of using the camera for digiscoping. That is, the ability to connect the camera to a spotting scope and get a high focal length. We have now tested this setup for a couple of days and think that the result is really good.

The camera connects to the spotting scope by a T2-adapter with Leica M-mount (third part, not supplied by Leica) and the Leica Photo Adapter for Leica spotting scopes. The focal length of this setup is about 800 mm with an aperture of f/9.8. A stable and strong tripod and tripod head is needed, we have also used a classic cable shutter release to minimize the vibrations.

Posted in Leica M, LR Guest Posts| Tagged Leica digiscoping adapter, Leica reviews| 2 Comments

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