The first sets of full-frame large-format Leica-format LEITZ PRIME lenses arrived at a number of rental houses worldwide in the past few days. This is warp speed. They must have been working long hours with lots of overtime in Wetzlar. Remember that LEITZ PRIME lenses were behind-glass models at IBC 2018 and only introduced in April of this year. Here they are now. And not just a few focal lengths. LEITZ PRIME deliveries are almost full sets of 8 lenses: 21, 25, 35, 40, 50, 65, 75 and 100 mm — all T1.8, all with 114mm front diameters.
From around the world: happy recipients at Camalot in Amsterdam, Ljud & Bildmedia AB in Stockholm and Sanwa Cine Equipment in Tokyo shown in photos below.
Camalot
- Yke Erkens and Sebastiaan van Zuylen of Camalot picking up their primes at Leitz Wetzlar
- Rainer Hercher (Leitz) and Camalot’s Sebastiaan van Zuylen and Yke Erkens
- Photo by Laura Kaufmann
- Photo by Olaf Nagtegaal
Ljud & Bildmedia AB
- Lens Prep area
- Daniel Thisell, CEO of Ljud & Bildmedia
Sanwa Cine Equipment
- Osamu Tsukada (Leitz), Masa Yasumoto (Managing Director of Sanwa) and Makoto Fujishima (Sanwa Lens Tech)
- New Macrolux 114 on LEITZ PRIME
LEITZ PRIME Specs