CW Sonderoptic Adds Mounts and Three More Leica M0.8 Cine Lenses to Lineup
Today, CW Sonderoptic, Leica Camera's sister company who makes the incredible range of Leica Cine lenses, has announced ...
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Latest Leica News
Leica Super-Vario-Elmar-SL 16-35mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH to Start Shipping Soon
At the last Photokina, Leica previewed some of the new SL lenses that they would be bringing to market. Deliveries for t...
Leica Prices Increasing on May 1st
On May 1, 2018 Leica is increasing prices on a range of products by an average of about 5%. Affected products include mo...
Leica Announces M Monochrom “Stealth Edition” by Marcus Wainwright
Today, Leica announced the special edition M Monochrom "Stealth Edition". The set was designed by Marcus Wainw...
Recent Reviews
A Look at the New Noctilux-M 75mm f/1.25 ASPH
Back in November, Leica announced the Noctilux-M 75mm f/1.25 ASPH, one of the most exotic M lenses made to date, with an amazingly complex optical design and some very exotic glass. It's also the largest and heaviest, weighing in just over 1kg (2.2 lbs). And t...
A Look at the New Leica Thambar-M 90mm f/2.2
Starting with the Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6 last year, Leica has started reissuing classic lenses from their past, keeping the original optical designs while implementing modern manufacturing and lens coatings. This allows M users the to experience the distinctive...
Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f/1.4 ASPH Review: A New Standard
Back at Photokina 2016, I had the pleasure of sitting down and discussing SL lenses with Peter Karbe, the head of optics at Leica. You can click the link to read the full interview, which has some great info, but the main takeaway is this: the SL lenses repres...
Field Tests and Technical Articles
Night Shooting with the Leica S (Typ 007)
When it comes to cameras, I’m a big believer in the right tool for the job approach. Until recently, models in the Leica...
Thoughts on the Next Generation Leica S
With the recent string of successful camera and lens introductions over the past few years, Leica has made the process o...
Video: How to Update Firmware on the Leica M10
We just posted a short how-to video walking through the firmware update process step-by-step for the Leica M10. This fou...
Inspiration and User Reports
Five Countries, One Camera: Travels with the Leica Q
It happened by accident really. A few years ago, a couple girlfriends and I started talking about getting together. Life had taken us in different directions and we were living in opposite corners of the country. We would all have to travel to see each other,...
Travels through Morocco with the Leica S
Morocco occupies a uniquely strategic and cultural position on the African continent. Perched on the northwest coast of Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean are natural borders to the North and West. Spain lies within sight of the coastal citie...
Show Reports
NAB Show 2017 – New Leica Cine Lenses: Thalia, 15mm Summicron, +0.5 MacroLux and M 0.8
During NAB Show 2017, I had a nice chat with Seth Emmons, the Global Marketing Manager for CW Sonderoptic. CW designs an...
NAB 2017 – Checking out the New Sound Devices MixPre-3 and MixPre-6
If you read my pre-NAB announcement of Sound Devices new MixPre-3 and MixPre-6 mixer/recorder/USB interfaces, you'll kno...
The Leica M10: A Discussion with Stefan Daniel and Jesko von Oeynhausen
While I was in Germany for the Celebration of Photography Event a.k.a The M10 Launch, I had a chance to sit down for a c...
A Celebration of Photography: The Leica M10 Launch Event in Wetzlar, Germany
Back in December I received an interesting invitation from Leica. My presence was requested at Leica’s corporate headqua...
Photokina 2016 – The Leica SL System
With Leica's new focus on professional imaging and nothing new announced for the flagship medium format Leica S System, ...
Photokina 2016 – Interview with Stephan Schulz, Director of Leica’s Professional Business Unit
Towards the end of Photokina, I sat down with Stephan Schulz, the global director of Leica's new Business Unit Professio...