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Rumors: Leica killed the development of a new mirrorless medium format camera

Several people familiar with Leica’s internal organization are aware that medium-format R&D activities were significantly reduced and that personnel from the S development division were progressively reassigned to SL- and M-related projects. The dedicated medium format development structure itself appears to have been dissolved. This may have to do with the latest rumors about Blackstone trying […]

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Leica’s management did in fact once consider making a medium-format film camera system

On April 1st, I posted a joke about Leica rumored to announce a new medium format film camera with a fixed lens. While this was obviously an April fool’s joke, it turns out that Leica’s upper management did in fact once consider making a medium-format film camera system (not with a fixed lens). In May 2000 […]

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