Update: the book is now available on LFI-online and Amazon.
The new limited edition of the Leica Compendium book by Erwin Puts should be available tomorrow. The new edition will include new pages, additional images and rewritten paragraphs. The price will be 78 Euros. The previous version is already sold out.
The Leica Guy got married and of course the entire wedding had a Leica theme. Here is the Leica groom’s cake:
and the Leica .95 Noctilux ring:
Richard Swan from Leica UK shared some details on their upcoming compact mirrorless system camera with TechRadar. The new product line will be placed somewhere between the X1 and M9 in terms of pricing. As previous reprots indicated, the camera will have at least an APS-C sized sensor. Another interesting comment was that “any future interchangeable lens cameras from Leica would be compatible with M-mount lenses“. Announcement will take place at Photokina 2012.
Band Pro announced that the first sets of Leica Summilux-C cinema lenses have shipped from the new factory in Wetzlar, Germany. The Leica Cine lenses are exclusively distributed by Band Pro. A set of eight lenses costs $178,000. Here are three sample videos shot with the new Summilux-C cinema lenses and various cameras (Arri Alexa, Red Epic-M, Sony F35):
Leica Camera has recently become aware of customers experiencing compatibility issues related to select types of new memory cards when used in the Leica M9.
First of all, we would like to thank you all for the lively participation on our call for assistance to solve the SD-card issue with the M9. With this information, we would like to give you the latest information on the status:
The facts from today’s point of view are:
Here is a video illustrating a scenario when images from the M9 will be lost:
Update: it seems that the issue described in this video is different from the original post by Gil Lavi.
Detailed specs of the Ricoh GXR Leica M-mount cartridge were published at Fotointern. The release date is September 9th, 2011. The retail price will be $649. More images of the unit can be found here.
Technical specs:
