The compact Leica V-Lux 40 camera is listed as discontinued at B&H. Expect Leica to announce a new V-Lux 50 model which will most likely be based on the Panasonic SZ30 with a 24mm 20x optical zoom lens, 3.0″ multi-touch LCD display (920K dots) and 18.1MP 1/2.3″ sensor.
Solms (ots) – Leica Camera AG will be represented in the Baltic Zingst with a Leica Gallery. For locations like New York, Tokyo, Vienna, Salzburg, Frankfurt, Warsaw and Prague, the traditional brand now presents the midst of the picturesque scenery of the Western Pomeranian Bodden country’s high-profile photo art by renowned photographers.
In the halls of a renovated former railway station, the new Leica Gallery shows at the start of the environmental photo festival “horizons zinc” photographs of Cotton and Sisse Brimberg Coulsen. The Danish-American photographer couple deals with the possibilities of the documentary Black and White Photography and holding in his work, the supposedly insignificant, inconspicuous of the moment most poignantly laid. Leica Gallery Zingst opened on 25 May 2013 by 11 clock in the street Am Bahnhof 1, Zingst.
Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, majority shareholder of Leica Camera AG, has acquired a 25.1% stake in the Internet platform “I-shot-it”. For a small fee, www.i-shot-it.com enables photo-enthusiasts—from amateurs to professionals—to take part in photographic competitions. An independent jury of internationally acclaimed photographers selects the prizewinners and in the open competitions, members of the “I-shot-it” community select the prizewinners by direct online voting.
Leica Camera will open a new, two story store in Los Angeles on June 20th. Few days ago a new Leica Boutique was open in Bergen County Camera:
Solms (ots) – Till Bronner is true not only in Germany but also in international comparison as one of the best jazz trumpeter. That the musicians but also for years dealing intensively with photography, is less known.The Leica Gallery Salzburg is now 17 May to 06 July 2013 Brönners work in the exhibition “Faces of talent,” in Bronner, a series of black-and-white portraits of famous personalities from the show business presents.The selection shows including images of U.S. singer Beth Ditto and Ms. Maad Moiselle, the German jazz musician Roger Cicero and the actor Armin Mueller-Stahl. On the evening of 16 May 2013 Till Bronner is “Faces of talent” and personally, to open along with the head of the Leica Gallery in Salzburg, Karin Rehn-Kaufmann.
