Leica Rumors

New Leica M9 Titanium in stock for $35k

By LR admin | Published: October 8, 2011

Amazon currently has a new Leica M9 Titan in stock for $34,999.00. Few months ago eBay had several M9T for sale, but it seems they are all gone now. Like anything else from Leica, this listing won’t last long.

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Will Fuji use Leica’s M mount for their upcoming mirrorless camera?

By LR admin | Published: October 7, 2011

Next Fuji camera: a baby M9?

Two days ago Fujifilm announced their plans for a new mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses. The new X system camera will be a “premium” camera” with “resolution and low noise that will surpass the 35mm full size sensor”. There were some speculations that Fuji may actually use Leica’s M mount for their upcoming mirrorless camera (FYI: Fuji did produce Leica L39 mount lenses in the past).

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Leica Italy 24×36 project

By LR admin | Published: October 7, 2011

Leica Italy is currently running a photographic contest (in English) in order to find 24 photographers that will get an assignment to take 36 pictures of their hometown using a Leica X1. The voting is done through Facebook “Likes”. The terms and conditions can be found here (open only to Italian citizens).

Thanks Alfonso!

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New Leica store could be coming to Mexico

By LR admin | Published: October 7, 2011

A new Leica store could be coming in Mexico (probably Mexico City) in the next few months. The store will probably be managed by Film Mates Mexico which is part of the Themates Group.

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Leica D-Lux 6 may have a larger sensor

By LR admin | Published: October 5, 2011

The current LX5 and D-Lux 5 cameras

In a recent interview with TechRadar, Yoshiyuki Inoue ( Senior Engineering Planner) mentioned that the LX5 camera sales are not as good as Panasonic had hoped. One of the possible improvement for the LX5 (and D-Lux 5) replacement could be the sensor size. A new 1 inch sensor (like the new Nikon 1) was mentioned, but nothing was officially confirmed (FYI: the Leica D-Lux 5 has 1/1.63″ CCD image sensor).

The Leica D-Lux 6 is expected to be announced in 2012, probably in September during Photokina.

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