Weekend Leica links

By LR admin | Published: August 21, 2011

  • I saw this 1947 Leica IIIC with aftermarket gold conversion in my local Leica store:

  

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Leica Historical Society of America raffle

By LR admin | Published: August 20, 2011

There is only one more week left for the LHSA raffle where the grand price is a new Leica M9-P camera. You must be a LHSA member in order to participate. Full details available on this PDF file.

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Alternative Phottix 0.85x and 1.25x viewfinders magnifiers for Leica M rangefinders

By LR admin | Published: August 19, 2011

 

After I just came across this new USB 3 card reader from Phottix, I realized that they also sell 0.85x and 1.25x viewfinder magnifiers for Leica M rangefinders for $69 each (for comparison, the original Leica 1.25x costs $299):

Leica carries also a 1.4x viewfinder magnifier.
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Leica MP à la carte production temporarily halted till early 2012

By LR admin | Published: August 18, 2011

Robertwhite (a major UK retailer) published on their website that the Leica MP and MP à la carte production is temporarily halted till early 2012 “due to the discontinuation of an integral component“:

Leica à la carte lets you customize your MP or M7 camera. The standard MP model is currently in stock at B&H, Adorama and you can even get it for the old price of $4,595.95 at Amazon:

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Leica Camera AG have sold 30,000 M9 cameras

By LR admin | Published: August 18, 2011

Based on the last stament from Leica Camera AG, “There have been 15 cases of this problem, which is equal to 0.05% of the total units sold” we can conclude that Leica has sold 30,000 M9 cameras since 09/09/09. This equals to approximately 40 cameras a day.

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Leica’s official statement on the M9 battery issue

By LR admin | Published: August 18, 2011

After the M9/SD card compatibility issue, Leica Camera AG issued another statement today about a potential M9 battery issue reported by several websites in the past few weeks:

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Leica Camera AG looking to further increase production capacity

By LR admin | Published: August 16, 2011

Leica shares

Some interesting points from a recent article on Leica Camera AG publish on mittelhessen.de (in English):

  • Leica increased lens production from 63 to 120 per day. The goal fot this fiscal year is 240 lenses per day.
  • Leica now has 59 store worldwide.
  • Dr. Andreas Kaufmann currently owns 95% of Leica’s stock and could not buy the remaining shares from their current owners.
  • Leica plans to relocate from Solms to the new Leitz Park in Wetzlar in Spring of 2013 which will further increase productivity (more details will be available this fall):

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