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Leica releases Leica M10-P “Reporter” design variant New Products 

Leica releases Leica M10-P “Reporter” design variant

Leica Camera announced a special design variant of the Leica M10-P called Leica M10-P “Reporter”. The $8,795 camera, which is identical in terms of technical specifications to the serially produced Leica M10-P, will be limited to a total of 450 units. The camera\, announced as part of the celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, features... Read More
The 37th annual Leitz Photographica Auction is Nov. 21 Events 

The 37th annual Leitz Photographica Auction is Nov. 21

Interested in weird and unique photographic gear? The 37th Annual “Leitz Photographica Auction,” will be Nov.21, which has established itself as one of the world’s leading auction houses for classic and vintage cameras and photographic, according to the organizers. Working in collaboration with Leica Camera, the Viennese auction team offers potential buyers from around the globe the chance to bid... Read More
Insta360 ONE R 1-Inch Edition ‘co-engineered with Leica’ is available in Leica Stores News 

Insta360 ONE R 1-Inch Edition ‘co-engineered with Leica’ is available in Leica Stores

  Leica Camera AG and Insta360 announced a strategic partnership in January 2020, with the launch of the Insta360 ONE R, an action camera using an interchangeable camera module to combine 360-degree capture with the precision and resolution of traditional single-lens shooting. Beginning this month, interested customers can purchase Insta360 ONE R 1-Inch Edition in Leica Stores around the world... Read More
Venus Optics add L-mount options on six Laowa Lenses New Products 

Venus Optics add L-mount options on six Laowa Lenses

Venus Optics, the manufacturer specialized in making unique photo and cinema lenses, add the L-mount option on six of their existing Laowa wide-angle and macro lenses. These L-mount lenses can currently be used on Panasonic S1 series , Sigma FP and Leica SL/CL cameras. Wide Angle Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 – Laowa 10-18mm is currently the widest rectilinear zoom lens available... Read More
Venus Optics unveiled the Laowa 9mm f/5.6 FF RL lens New Products 

Venus Optics unveiled the Laowa 9mm f/5.6 FF RL lens

Venus Opticsunveiled the new Laowa 9mm f/5.6 FF RL lens, the world’s widest rectilinear lens for full-frame cameras. Venus Optics have been designing ultra-wide angle lenses with outstanding optical performance and their 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 lens is currently the world’s widest zoom lens for full-frame cameras. The Laowa 9mm lens can also focus as close as 4.72” (12cm) measuring from subject... Read More
HUAWEI debuts P40 Series with 1/1.28-inch sensor with periscope design with 10x true optical zoom New Products 

HUAWEI debuts P40 Series with 1/1.28-inch sensor with periscope design with 10x true optical zoom

Huawei Consumer Business Group announced the HUAWEI P40 Pro+, HUAWEI P40 Pro and HUAWEI P40, featuring a large 1/1.28-inch sensor which boosts light intake for enhanced low-light performance and a new periscope design realizes 10x true optical zoom. P40 Series is powered by Kirin 990 5G and supports high-speed 5G and Wi-Fi 6 Plus. “The HUAWEI P Series has always... Read More
Insta360 announces ONE R “adaptive action cam” co-engineered with Leica Events New Products 

Insta360 announces ONE R “adaptive action cam” co-engineered with Leica

Insta360 today announced ONE R, an adaptive action cam whose interchangeable-lens design enables 360-degree capture, standard 4K wide-angle capture, and use of a groundbreaking 5.3K 1-inch sensor. The One R has one battery, one processor and a trio of quick-swapping lens Mods: the Dual-Lens 360 Mod, the 4K Wide-Angle Mod and the 1-Inch Wide Angle Mod co-engineered with Leica. ‘With... Read More
Leica Camera announces 47 MP Leica SL2, a successor to the Leica SL News 

Leica Camera announces 47 MP Leica SL2, a successor to the Leica SL

Leica Camera introduced the Leica SL2, a 47 MP full-frame mirrorless camera building on the success of its Leica SL. The Leica SL2 features all-metal construction, leather wrap, simplified three-button control layout and new in-body image stabilization. The Leica SL2 has kept the same size than its predecessor and improved body design paired with increased IP54 certification durability and a... Read More
photokina 2020 announces key exhibitors and some cancellations Events Press releases 

photokina 2020 announces key exhibitors and some cancellations

photokina 2020: an industry in transformation, a decisive chance for the future The imaging industry is currently undergoing massive changes, which also have an impact on photokina as the industry’s leading trade fair – and this in a dimension never seen before. While on the one hand the classic camera market reports strongly declining sales and turnover figures, the enjoyment... Read More
Leica debuts another variant of the Leica Q-P New Products Press releases 

Leica debuts another variant of the Leica Q-P

With the Leica Q-P, Leica Camera AG presents a further model of its high-performance compact camera with a full-frame sensor and a fast prime lens. Lacking the Leica red dot logo, but instead featuring a restrained, classic Leica script engraved on the top plate, the discreet design of the Leica Q-P sets it apart from the existing Leica Q models... Read More
Panasonic, Leica, Sigma team up for L-Mount alliance News Opinion Press releases 

Panasonic, Leica, Sigma team up for L-Mount alliance

In a flashback to the launch of the Four-Thirds standard a decade ago, Panasonic, Leica and Sigma are at again, with the launch of L-Mount Alliance, billed as “universal lens mount” based on Leica’s own mount. In the press release shown before, Panasonic is exhibiting prototypes at photokina. Leica already has three cameras and numerous L-Mount lenses. Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki announced the company was... Read More
Zenit and Leica present joint production camera Events New Products Press releases 

Zenit and Leica present joint production camera

COLOGNE, Germany, September 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Krasnogorsky Zavod, manufacturer of the Russian brand Zenit, in cooperation with Leica Camera AG, German manufacturer of premium cameras and optics, designed a new digital rangefinder camera Zenit M. The Shvabe Holding, part of Rostec, has presented this product at Photokina 2018, the largest international trade fair for the photographic and imaging industries held... Read More
photokina 2018: Imaging of a new generation Events Press releases 

photokina 2018: Imaging of a new generation

Changed market environments and customer needs are currently moving the imaging industry, and thus also photokina. The world’s leading trade fair for imaging opens its gates from 26-29 September on the Deutz fair grounds, and the world is looking with anticipation to Cologne. This is because the traditional event is facing a generation change: the core areas have been supplemented... Read More