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Gerhard and Bernhard at Leica
There has been a lot of activity at Leica lately. Gerhard Baier is now Managing Director. He shares the title with Erik Feichtinger, who previously shared the title with Iain Neil. Gerhard will be responsible for production and marketing, Erik for finance and operations. Iain continues as principal lens designer and CTO of the Leica Summilux-C Project. Bernhard Kratzer is… read more…
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Hercher to Band Pro – Baier to Leica
On Feb 1, 2012, Rainer Hercher was named Managing Director of Band Pro Munich. On Feb 3, we learned that Gerhard Baier was named Managing Director of CW Sonderoptic (Leica Summilux-C Cine Lenses). Rainer Hercher was previously Business Development Manager at Band Pro Munich GmbH, a subsidiary of Band Pro Film & Digital, Inc., headquartered in Burbank, California. Before Band… read more…
Call for Entries: 2012 Oskar Barnack Award
Leica Camera is accepting entries for the 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Professional photographers are invited to apply online through March 1, 2012 at www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com. The winners of the 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award and Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award will be announced during the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival in Arles, France from July 2-8, 2012. The award has been… read more…
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Leica and Kodak Articles in Spanish
Two Film and Digital Times articles in Spanish: “Interview with Leica’s Dr. Andreas Kaufmann” and “Tour of Kodak.” The Leica article was translated by Delfí Reinoso from Barcelona on the Leicaeme.com Website (12/2011). Leicaeme.com is a collaborative project of people involved in the Leica (en Español) Flickr group. Leica users are everywhere. The Leicaforum is in English, German and Russian; Summilux.net is in French; Leica Forum and Red Dot Forum… read more…
New Leica Headquarters
At the annual meeting of the Leica Historical Society In Pittsburgh last month, ACM Managing Director Andreas Kaufmann showed renderings of Leica’s proposed new headquarters in Wetzlar. Planning began in 2007 for a new development called Leitz-Park. On December 1, a group of Leica executives, bankers, associates, advisors, and architects met with Wetzlar officials to present 15 volumes and 1000 sheets of… read more…
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Leica Photo Competition
INVITATION TO SUBMIT ENTRIES FOR THE 2012 LEICA OSKAR BARNACK AWARD Leica Camera AG invites professional photographers to submit entries to the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, an international photography competition. Photographers wishing to take part may submit their projects online between January 16 and March 1, 2012. The terms and conditions of entry can be downloaded from www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com shortly before the start… read more…
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Interview with Leica’s Dr. Andreas Kaufmann
I first met Dr Andreas Kaufmann at the Pacific Palisades home of Otto Nemenz two years ago. “We have an interesting story to tell you,” Otto said, as Santa Monica Bay glistened in glorious magic hour light. “It’s about Leica cine lenses.” The saga involved several degrees of separation that began more than 30 years ago, with Otto and his… read more…
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International Leica Society
“Shooting with a Leica is like a long tender kiss, like firing an automatic pistol, like an hour on the analyst’s couch,” said Henri Cartier-Bresson. He should have added, “…and like spending a weekend with the LHSA International Leica Society.” Two hundred Leica fanatics converged on Pittsburgh last week to try new equipment, attend lectures, shoot pictures, swap tales and… read more…
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Sony F65 Open House in Paris
Paris. October 14th. 10 am – 7 pm. PhotoCineRent hosts a Journée Portes Ouvertes (Open House) to introduce Sony’s F65 Camera. Peter Sykes and Richard Lewis from Sony Europe are personally hand-carrying a pre-production model to the event for demos and discussions.
Tags: Band Pro, Leica, PhotoCineRent, Sony
Leica’s Eleven
Three additional focal length Leicas were “leaked” at IBC as prototype models. The new Summilux-C 16, 29, and 65 mm primes are planned to be introduced at NAB 2012. This brings the set to eleven: 16, 18, 21, 25, 29, 35, 40, 50, 65, 75, and 100 mm. They are all 142 mm long from front to flange, have 95… read more…
Leica M9 and Noctilux f/0.95
This is not your father’s Leica. But many things about the Leica M9 feel familiar. The process of taking pictures is distinctly different. The mechanics are elegant. The controls are intuitive. Turn it on. Set your aperture. Compose. Focus. Shoot. You think more about composition. You wait for the perfect moment. My father had a drawer full of M2 and… read more…
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Leica Lens Controls
Prototype by cmotion seen at Cine Gear: focus and iris motors for Leica Summilux-C Primes from Band Pro. The motor assembly attaches directly to the lens with a bracket, providing a way to control focus and iris without having to use lens rods. This helps keep things light, tidy and compact for handheld, remote, Steadicam and 3D rigs. The motor… read more…
Oli at NAB 2011
Sony’s theme was “Believe Beyond HD.” The Digital Cinema Society’s seminar was titled, “3D, 4K and beyond.” We saw plenoptic lenses selectively adjusting focus within a scene. We saw the GoPro 3D camera on a model helicopter. NAB 2011 was well beyond HD. Attendance was up, along with activity on the show floor. It could be a reflection of a… read more…
Leica Summilux-C PL Prime Lenses
Here’s a look at what production models of Leica’s Summilux-C PL Primes will look like when they’re shown at NAB. Restyled graphics, thinner focus and iris index marks, new anti-reflection coating. At Band Pro C10308 and elsewhere…
FDTimes NAB Edition Contents
FDTimes April 2011 double issue 41-42 hits the halls of NAB on opening day: at 9 am on Monday April 11, 2011. Pick up your complimentary copy of Film and Digital Times from the publication bins in the Central Hall Main Lobby and South Hall Upper Lobby, at our booth C9550, and at the booths of our sponsors, including Sony, Fujinon,… read more…
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Leica Summilux-C in NY
One of the first demo sets of five Leica Summilux-C Prime lenses made their debut in New York at Band Pro and TCS for preliminary testing and tire-kicking. When the first complete sets arrive, they will be in rental at Otto Nemenz and available at Band Pro. We looked at the 21, 35, 40, 50 and 75mm T1.4 Leica primes… read more…
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Leica and Sony at Band Pro East
Monday, February 21. 12 noon to 8pm. Band Pro East will host demos of the the new Leica Summilux-C prime lenses and the Sony’s new PMW-F3 camcorder. Leica Summilux-C Prime Lenses The new T1.4 PL-mount prime lenses from Leica have uniform small size, identical location of focus and iris rings, and identical front diameters (95 mm). Five focal lengths (of the original… read more…
NEX-5 Leica
The prime lens packaged with Sony’s NEX-5 digital still camera is a 16mm f2.8 E-mount (18 mm flange focal depth). But, I wanted faster, sharper, manual. From my collection of Leica M lenses, the venerable “quintessential rangefinder Ernst Leitz Summicron 50 mm f2.0 was a perfect match. It conveniently collapses for unobtrusive transport–although anything with a Leica logo is hardly… read more…
NEX-5 Directors Finder
Ingredients: 1. Sony NEX-5 Digital Still Camera 2. MTF PL to Sony E Adaptor 3. Hoodman HoodLoupe Unpack Sony NEX-5 Camera. Attach MTF PL Adapter. Attach Hoodman HoodLoupe with thin Velcro strips. Someone will undoubtedly come up with a nice bracket that mounts to the 1/4-20 thread on the bottom of the NEX-5. Zacuto Z-Finder Jr and Pro and Dorn’s… read more…
Tags: iDC Photo Video, Leica, Lenses, Sony, Still Photography
Primes by Leica on Sony
The new Sony NEX-5 digital still camera makes an excellent director’s finder. It has an APS-C sensor that is almost identical to Super 35 format: (23.4 x 15 mm), has an accommodating 18 mm flange focal depth, and no mirror to get in the way of PL motion picture lenses. You can order the PL to E mount adaptor from Mike Tapa… read more…
