Update – here is the actual video:
This is what Steve Jobs said just few minutes ago when he was describing the new iPhone 4:
10:32AM “You gotta see this in person. This is beyond the doubt, the most precise thing, and one of the most beautiful we’ve ever made. Glass on the front and back, and steel around the sides. It’s like a beautiful old Leica camera.”
Via Engadget
Artisan & Artist have a new bag – model COV-8000 (not yet listed on their website). The bag is currently available on eBay:
Update: some pictures from the event can be found here.
Photo credit: Willoughby's
NEW YORK (June 3, 2010) – Leica Camera Inc. is proud to announce the opening of the Leica Boutique at the Willoughby’s Imaging Center on June 8, 2010. The new boutique marks the first Leica designed retail space in New York City and a marquis partnership between two historic brands in the photography industry.
Set within New York’s oldest photographic emporium, the Leica Boutique at Willoughby’s Imaging Center will provide a new source for information on all Leica-related topics and offer Leica’s full product portfolio, from point-and-shoot cameras to rangefinder and medium format systems and binoculars. Similar to all Leica products, this new retail setting will utilize premium design and materials to offer a memorable and interactive experience.
“We are proud to offer Leica clients and fans this distinctive new venue to explore our products,” remarks Leica Camera Inc. President Roger Horn. “Both Willoughby’s and Leica have a significant place in the photography industry’s rich history and we are excited to bring lasting synergy to both our brands through this partnership.”
To celebrate the grand opening of the Leica Boutique, Willoughby’s, along with photo enthusiast and actor Matthew Modine, renowned event photographer Patrick McMullan and Alex McCord of Real Housewives of New York, will host a VIP “cocktails and cameras” party. In addition to showcasing the new Leica retail setting, the event will exhibit the latest work of renowned fashion photographer and Leica Camera fan, Nevil Dwek.
3 June 2010: Leica’s professional digital camera system, the Leica S-System, has been chosen by fashion photographer Yves de Contades to create a unique set of photographs of some of the UK’s leading creative directors. Named ‘Fantasy Portraits’, the collection will exhibited in June 2010.
Yves de Contades, who is also creative director of luxury brand magazine, International Life, approached forty leading creative gurus from the UK’s advertising and design industry with the question ‘What is your ultimate Fantasy Portrait?’ The results were an intoxicating mix of the quirky, the clever and the downright bizarre, from a digital robot, a spaceman bouncing through Piccadilly Circus to a dragon slaying ninja.
All images were shot exclusively on the new Leica S-System. After the shoot, Yves commented, “My vision was to bring to life the weird and wonderful imagination of some the UK’s most creative minds. It was refreshing to collaborate on a project focused solely on creatives, who are generally preoccupied with their clients’ brands.”
Yves added, “The Leica S-System is a step forward in technology that harks back to real photography, as it combines the latest digital medium format with the highest end camera body, designed by photographers for photographers. Once you have used this camera, you cannot help but fall in love with it.
Photo credit: Andy Spyra
Solms, Germany (June 2, 2010) – The first prize in this year’s highly prestigious photographic competition, the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2010,’ goes to the Swedish photographer Jens Olof Lasthein. His award-winning portfolio entitled ‘Waiting for the future – pictures from Abkhazia’ tells the story of the people of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Southern Caucasus. The second winner in this year’s competition is Andy Spyra from Germany. His portfolio, ‘Kashmir,’ shot in the region of the same name, is the winning entry for the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2010.’ The winner of the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Award’ receives €5,000 (approx. $6,100) or, alternatively, Leica camera equipment of the same value. The winner of the Newcomer Award receives €2,500 (approx. $3,000). The prizes will be presented on July 6, 2010, as part of the photographic festival in Arles.
Although the Republic of Abkhazia – the central theme of the winning portfolio – has gained its independence after a period of unrest and civil war, it is still considered to be a part of Georgiaunder international law. This politically complex situation is also reflected in the everyday life of the region. The future of the people there is just as uncertain as that of their home country and it is precisely this uncertainty that Lasthein has captured in his photography.
