Leica announces second North American road show

By LR admin | Published: September 7, 2010

Update: sign up for the North American road show will begin Friday, September 10th, 2010.

After a successful first round, today Leica announced a second North American road show.

Press release:

LEICA CAMERA ANNOUNCES SECOND NORTH AMERICAN ROAD SHOW

Leica will host M-System and X1 Camera experiential seminars in 20 North American Cities

Allendale, NJ (September 1, 2010) – Leica Camera, Inc. is pleased to announce its second Leica North American Road Show, bringing 29 workshops to 20 North American cities starting on October 5, 2010 in Toronto, Canada and concluding on December 11, 2010 in Tampa/St. Pete, Florida. Product specialists from Leica will be traveling across the United States and Canada to increase participants’ knowledge and familiarity with the Leica M-System and X1 Camera through a series of experiential shooting workshops.

“For the second Road Show, we are excited to again feature Leica M-System workshops and also introduce new Leica X1 Camera Events,” says Christian Erhardt, Vice President of Marketing at Leica Camera, Inc. “Professional as well as amateur photographers who enjoy the best and finest will equally benefit from this hands-on experience. Each participant will have access to knowledgeable Leica photographers who will deepen their photographic abilities and enhance their shooting experience.”

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Leica acknowledges development of new system camera (R-solution)

By LR admin | Published: September 6, 2010

Echenique.com published a letter sent by Leica to a customer regarding the future of the Leica R lenses:

“We are fully aware that you like to use your valuable R lenses on a digital Leica body in a adequate way. This need has been integrated into the development of new camera systems. We kindly ask for your understanding that we cannot make a more precise statement or detailed information concerning new developments or possible market introduction dates.”

In that letter, Leica clearly states that another DSLR type R solution is out of the question. As previously reported, this new camera system is expected to be a full frame mirrorless solution that will take R lenses in addition to a set of new lenses. Announcement is expected at Photokina.

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The First Leixpo 2011 – The Leica Event You Don’t Want to Miss

By LR admin | Published: August 31, 2010

Press Release:

The First Leixpo 2011 – The Leica Event You Don’t Want to Miss.

West Palm Beach, FL (August 29th, 2010) – The first Leixpo event will take place on February 12th, 2011 from 9:00 am till 7:00 pm. at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre located in downtown West Palm Beach. The facility has over 26,000 sq. ft. of classrooms, museum, studio, store and more and will be able to handle a large number of exhibitors and visitors.

Leixpo is an annual event that will feature numerous product manufacturers that cater to the Leica community. The event will bring Leica enthusiasts together and introduce them to the magical world of Leica photography, exchange ideas with peers and be part of a community of Leica users. Details about the participating exhibitors will be available at a later date. Tickets can be purchased at the door before the event for the price of $10. In addition to the main yearly Leixpo event, the Palm Beach Photographic Centre has a series of Leica related meetups during the year on various topics.

About Leixpo and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre:

For more information about Leixpo visit http://leixpo.com.

The Palm Beach Photographic Centre (http://www.workshop.org) is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to the enrichment of life through exhibitions, community programs, workshops and other educational activities that promote the arts of photography and digital imaging.

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Lightroom 3.2 released with Leica S2 support

By LR admin | Published: August 31, 2010

Lightroom 3.2 is now available with improved color and noise profiles for the Leica S2.

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Leica has not stopped making film cameras (rerun)

By LR admin | Published: August 27, 2010

I am not sure why, but several websites are covering again the article from the Japanese magazine Asahi Camera (June 20th issue) which states that Leica has stopped producing film cameras. As I mentioned two months ago, this statement probably got lost in translation. Here is again the official answer I got from Christian Erhardt (Vice President of Marketing Photographic Division,  Leica Camera USA) two months ago:

“Your questions comes timely, in fact just earlier this week I was in our factory where I saw the production of Leica’s M product lines. While we do not have a constant production of certain lenses and cameras, we have the ability to produce batches of those products. For example: Certain exotic lenses & cameras are produced in batches to be able to produce an economically feasible number of products.

In this case the M analog production line is just next to Leica’s M9 production line to which we have shifted our focus to better manage the backlog and reduce the wait for our customers.

As you might be well aware from the past, we have always stated that as long as it makes sense for Leica Camera AG to produce M analog cameras we will do so. At this time we are reaching our targeted numbers for M analog cameras and do well with the offering of Leica M a la Carte cameras. Just recently Leica Camera AG offered a special Leica M7 Hermes Camera. This camera was quickly sold out and is a sought after collectors camera.

At this time I have no indication that the Leica M analog cameras will be taken out of Leica’s product offering.”

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iPhone 4 turns into a Leica M9

By LR admin | Published: August 25, 2010

First, there was that comment from Steve Jobs that the iPhone 4 looked like “a beautiful old Leica camera”. It did not take long to see the first iPhone-Leica modification and now flickr member joey_joey_joey has an even better implementation, this time the iPhone 4 turns into a Leica M9 (probably also by using a Griffin Reveal case update: actually, those are stickers):

a nice touch is the Leica M9 wallpaper on the iPhone screen:

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Leica Camera AG has a new CEO

By LR admin | Published: August 20, 2010

Financial Times Deutschland (in German | in English) reports that Leica has changed their CEO again (seventh change in ten years). The new CEO is Adolf Alfred Schopf, 53 (update: here is the official press release with the correct name of the new CEO).

The article has also some other interesting information:

  • Patrick Thomas, the head of the French luxury goods group Hermès is on the Board of Directors of Leica Camera.
  • Hermès has a 49% stake in the Japanese subsidiary of Leica.
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