Show Reports

Photokina 2016 – Red Dot Rewind: Leica Updates Before the Show

September 20, 2016

I posted a Red Dot Rewind video summary last night before heading off to bed. Apologies if I look a little tired. It was a very long day of travel and writing.Be sure to check out the individual articles fo...

Stay Tuned for Full Photokina 2016 Coverage

David Farkas

September 4, 2016

Photokina is upon us again, and the Leica world is abuzz with speculation over what will be introduced.It's hard to believe, but in just two weeks, I will be heading off to Cologne, Germany for what should ...

Leica SL (Typ 601) Launch event in Wetzlar, Germany

David Farkas

October 21, 2015

When I received my invitation to the latest Das Wesentliche event to be held at the factory in Wetlzar, Germany a couple months ago, I had a fairly good idea what was coming. In fact, I think a lot of people did. Rumors and speculation online weren’t exactly i...

Photokina 2014: A few quick pictures with the Leica Summicron-S 100mm f/2 ASPH

David Farkas

September 23, 2014

When I ventured by the S stand at the Leica booth on my last day at the show, I said hello to Dietmar Stuible, who was working the demo table. He is one of the optics designers at Leica and was responsible for ...

Photokina 2014: Day 4 – Leica compacts get upgraded with D-Lux (Typ 109) and V-Lux (Typ 114)

David Farkas

September 20, 2014

There has been a lot of excitement at the show around Leica’s two new compact cameras, the Leica D-Lux (Typ 109) and the Leica V-Lux (Typ 114). Admittedly, there is tons of excitement around pretty much all of ...

Photokina 2014: Day 3 – Hands on with Leica X (Typ 113) and X-E (Typ 102)

David Farkas

September 18, 2014

The X System has been an interesting evolutionary process. First, Leica released the X1 along with the M9 and S2 on 9/9/9. The theme of that launch was that the S2 was the smallest medium format camera, the M9 the smallest full frame camera and the X1 the smal...

Photokina 2014: Video interview with Stefan Daniel, Leica Director of Product Management

David Farkas

September 18, 2014

Stefan Daniel, Leica's Director of Product Management walked me through most of the major products introduced at Photokina. Of course, with so many new cameras and lenses, we couldn't go into too much detail on...

Photokina 2014: Day 2 – Everything you need to know about the Leica S (Typ 007)

David Farkas

September 18, 2014

With my focus on the M yesterday, I wanted to dedicate my second day at the show to the new Leica S (Typ 007). As the third generation in the S family (I’m not counting the old S1 as it’s a totally different an...

Dr. Andreas Kaufmann’s one-of-a-kind M240 spotted at Photokina 2014

David Farkas

September 17, 2014

So while I was waiting for an interview in the press area of the Leica booth earlier in the day, I noticed Dr. Kaufmann, the owner of Leica camera, sitting with a few people at one of the tall cocktail tables out of the corner of my eye, having some coffee and...

Photokina 2014: Day 1 – Leica M System

David Farkas

September 16, 2014

I arrived at the Koelmesse this morning, headed up the familiar steps of the South Entrance and made my way to Leica’s huge booth, again occupying the entirety of Hall 1.The place is enormous with areas for eac...

Photos from the Leica S-Studio in New York City

Josh Lehrer

October 26, 2012

This week, Photo Plus Expo is going on at the Javits Center, and in addition to their booth at the show, Leica also has a dedicated S-Studio to demonstrate the latest addition to the Leica product lin...

Photokina 2012: Day 4 – Compact Cameras: Leica X2, D-Lux 6 and V-Lux 4

David Farkas

October 2, 2012

Leica is really firing on all cylinders this show. The new M is probably the biggest hit of the show. The S camera has some really solid updates and three new S lenses were introduced. But, these weren’t the only introductions from Leica. There is plenty of co...