Cosina Japan announced that it has discontinued two Voigtlander VM lenses for Leica M-mount: Voigtlander ULTRON 21mm f/1.8 Aspherical (now $100 off) Voigtlander NOKTON Vintage Line 50mm f/1.5 Aspherical II Nickel (now $300 off) The ULTRON 21mm f/1.8 Aspherical was announced in 2012. The NOKTON Vintage Line 50mm f/1.5 was announced in 2020. More discontinued products can be found […]
The Leica M10 Monochrom camera is listed as discontinued at B&H Photo and Classicconnection: The camera is “On Backorder” at Adorama and out of stock at Leica Store Miami. There is only one M10M in stock at Amazon and at Reddotcameras (UK). Meister-Camera in Germany still has the M10 Monochrom in stock. The new Leica […]
The Leica APO-Summicron-M 90mm f/2 ASPH lens is no longer listed on the Leica USA website. A website search also cannot locate the lens. The lens is out of stock at B&H and on backorder at Adorama. The Leica Thambar-M 90mm f/2.2 lens is still listed on Leica’s website, but it is “No Longer Available” […]
Several Leica L-mount APS-C lenses have been listed as discontinued at Camera Kitamura (Japan) ELMARIT-TL 18mm f/2.8 ASPH. Black (Silver in stock) SUMMICRON-TL F2/23mm ASPH. APO-MACRO-ELMARIT-TL 60 mm f/2.8 ASPH. (Silver in stock) APO-VARIO-ELMAR-TL F3.5-4.5/55-135mm ASPH. SUPER-VARIO-ELMAR-TL F3.5-4.5/11-23mm ASPH. VARIO-ELMAR-TL F3.5-5.6/18-56mm ASPH. In the US, most Leica TL lenses are available at B&H Photo, but […]
The Leica S (Typ 007) medium format DSLR camera is now listed as discontinued at B&H: The Leica S (Typ 007) is also no longer listed on the Leica USA website.
I have been reporting for a while about Leica discontinuing the CL/TL product lines and it seems that this is now officially confirmed by Leica AG according to this forum post (you can still find the Leica CL in stock at Amazon):
Several Leica CL camera configurations are already listed as discontinued at B&H Photo – the rest of the listings are out of stock or “no longer available“:
Cropped sensors have an inherent resolution limitation – just ask Olympus about that… This is even more important today, as more manufacturers are coming with 60MP cameras. We had some rumors in the past about a new Leica APS-C camera. Based on what the Leica Design Studio in Munich is working on and a few […]
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