KEH will be on site at the Leica Boutique in Palm Beach on February 11th and 12th, 2011 and will be buying used photography equipment for cash. If you take your purchase as a credit at the store, you will get an additional 10% added to the agreed upon price. BTW, the Leica Boutique still has the Leica M9 limited edition silver chrome set with sapphire glass in stock:
After a series of positive financial results (Q1 of 2010/2011 and annual 2009/2010) today Leica reported record sales in third quarter of fiscal year 2010/2011:
According to preliminary computations Leica Camera Group has increased its sales as at the end of the third quarter of the current fiscal year by 73 % to € 186.4 million as compared to the corresponding period in the previous fiscal year (€ 107.6 million). EBIT rose from € 13.9 million as at the end of the first half year to € 28.9 million as at the end of the third quarter (prior year period: € –0.3 million). The Company’s order inflow remains at a high level. With Group sales of € 75.5 million (prior year period: € 48.1 million) the third quarter of the current fiscal year was the best quarter of Leica Camera AG since the Company’s IPO in 1996.
Rumors about a Leica mount cartridge for the Ricoh GRX system have been floating around for a while. A prototype was shown at the CP+ show last year. AP just broke the news that the unit is about to be announced – it will have a 12.9MP 23.6×15.7mm APS-C size CMOS sensor and a newly-developed focal plane shutter. The unit is expected to be released in autumn of 2011.
When you purchase a Leica V-Lux 20 camera from Adorama, you will also get a free V-Lux 20 leather case (value $125), leather SD card holder (value $35) and a free additional Leica battery:
The Leica D-Lux 5 and Panasonic LX5 are basically identical cameras manufactured by Panasonic in Japan. The Leica version has a more clean design (no grip and labels). The rest of the differences are: LX5 comes with Silkpix Studio (retails for $100), has one year warranty and costs $400. The D-Lux 5 comes with Adobe Lightroom (retails for around $260, currently there is a $100 rebate), has 2 years warranty, costs $800 and usually has better resale value. In addition to those differences, both cameras have different firmware. The menu is almost identical with some small exceptions, mainly the way some features are called and where they are positioned:
I did several JPG comparison between both cameras to see if I can spot any differences.
