Continually updated: The Leica event in Berlin live!

The Leica event in Berlin just started (now at 18:45 Berlin time). L-camera-forum.com (Click here) has a nice list of tweets to follow live the product announcement. The presentation will be very long (almost two hours) and you will have to wait a bit to see the new B&W camera :)
Here are my live updates with the most recent news on top:

UPDATE_29: Leica is finally introducing the new cameras. And the new sis now officially spreaidng over the web. I am no ending my live updates and going to eat mei Weisswurst :)
UPDATE_28: A new pic of the camera by Photoscala.
UPDATE_27: The Leica forum Tweets keeps you updated about the M Monochrome presentation.
UPDATE_26: Finally they announce the M Monochrome Leica! We alreayd know the price and specs because fo the Rangefinderforum leak :)
UPDATE_25: It’s 20:48 Belrin time and the event restarted!
UPDATE_24: Now the dinner is ongoing since almost an hour!!!
UPDATE_23: 10 minutes after my last update…still no news. The dinner time is so damn long!
UPDATE_22: The guys in Berlin are still at DInner. Eating Wurst and drinking Weizen I guess. All that in the middle of the Leica event. Germans really can’t make an event without a break for a beer :)
UPDATE_21: It’s not me being slow with updates…there is a dinner break at the event in Berlin!!! At least we already got the specs and image of the camera via leak :)
UPDATE_20: New M camera has been Leaked !!!! Here it is at Rangefinderforum!
UPDATE_19: What? There is a break for some food :(
UPDATE_18: Picture of the people inside the hall.
UPDATE_17: 17 updates here and still no real camera news. Leica is doing all soooo slow and all sooo Black and White :)
UPDATE_16: Famous photographer Barbara Klemm is on stage.
UPDATE_15: Meantime the biggest Leica Forum website crashed. Shows a blank page only. A sign that there are many guys interested to see the new M mount camera :)
UPDATE_14: Again lot of general talk from the Leica bosses. It will take some time until they unveil the new stuff!
UPDATE_13: And here is the pic of the big bosses: Photo by Photoscala
UPDATE_12: Now the big bosses from Leica are on stage (Kaufmann, Schopf and Erfurt)
UPDATE_11: That’s going to be long. Also Mr. Liefers (one stage) talks about the B&W philosophy…boring :)
UPDATE_10: Rich Sultans from Asia is also at the event…. Look at the Photo at Photoscala :)
UPDATE_9: There is a lot of general talk about B&W photography. Still no news about the new camera…
UPDATE_8: Music is gone. Presentation starts!
UPDATE_7: In case you don’t know who Till is look here: http://ow.ly/i/CmQH
UPDATE_6: Still no talk, there is music over music (now Till Brönner)
UPDATE_5: Music of Morricone and on backgound Black and White images :)
UPDATE_4: Photoscala is also tweeting live with pictures.
UPDATE_3: More pics here: Leicaforum
UPDATE_2: You can see some pics from the event here: Skydrive
UPDATE_1: All the big ones are present (like Steve Huff and so on). You can see pics here: Lforum.

 

 

18 Megapixel (and 16bit) B&W Leica coming soon. Will you buy it?

At 8pm (20:00) London time Leica will announce the X2, the new 50mm Summicron and the very highly expected B&W M-mount camera with 18 Megapixel B&W sensor and 16 bit recording. As you know that camera will cost around 7.000 Euro or 8,000 Dollars. Now, I am pretty sure many here like the idea to have a pure Black and White sensor with no aliasing problems with hygh dynamic range and super per pixel sharpness. But….

Stay tuned on MirrorlessRumors! I will report about the Leica event live on this blog!

Not again: Samsung says they want to become the “Number One” in the mirrorless market.

Oh no! We here that again! For years now Samsung is stating that they want to become the “Number One” in the mirrorless market. I hoped they would stop to talk like that after their NX system wasn’t able to gain any significant market share. Be aware that in my opinion the NX system has a great potential! Samsung has a huge sensor knowledge and they have proven that they can do superb lenses! But I don’t like all these big words repeated lately again at Techradar (Click here): “Samsung will continue to introduce a wide array of products to assume leadership in the CSC market“.

Nobody will believe them if they keep saying that :) I care to repeat that I would really like Samsung to release some very innovative product. They have the uniqe chance to create a system from scratch without to have to defend a pro business like Sony and Canon. So just do it!

The Leica B&W M mount camera has 18 megapixels! Announcement tomorrow!

According to our top sources Leicas new M-mount Full Frame camera will have a 18 Megapixel Black and White sensor manufactured by Platinum Equity. The exact resolution is 5216 x 3472 pixels. Leica will announce the camera tomorrow at 8pm (20:00) London time!

The sources said the per pixel sharpness is “spectacular” and the dynamic range also higher than anything they have seen before. But also the price will be higher than any other current digital M-mount camera (almost $8,000)! LOL :)

I will be here tomorrow and update you live with all the latest news about the camera. Stay tuned on MirrorlessRumors!!!

New X adapters from Novoflex (and studio samples at Dpreview)

The German company announced not one, not two but sixteen(!) new adapters for the Fuji X system! Check out the full list of adapters at Novoflex (Click here).

And Dpreview (Click here) posted the Fuji X PRO 1 studio samples. I will let you judge if the Fuji can really beat current Full Frame cameras (a part of the super resolution Nikon D800).

P.S.: Some new X PRO 1 tests: Fuji X PRO 1 red performance comparison canon Nikon at Dpreview Forum (Click here). X-Pro1 + Voigtlander f4 25mm Color Skopar images by John Smith (Click here).

In stock status check:
Fuji X PRO 1 body is in Stock at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Jessops UK (Click here) and Digitalrev (Click here).
Fuji X 18mm f/2.0 in Stock at Amazon (Click here) and Digitalrev (Click here).
Fuji X 35mm f/1.4 in Stock at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Digitalrev (Click here).
Fuji X 60mm macro f/2.0 in not Stock at Amazon (3-4weeks) but is in Stock at Digitalrev (Click here). Mike Kobal made a short NEX-7 versus Fuji X PRO 1 comparison.

Leica MP monochrome and X2 are coming on Thursday!

The new B&W MP camera will costs $1,000 more than the new MP-9 you see here on top ($7999 at BHphoto).

This will be a very important week for all Leica fans. Finally Leica is going to announce a digital camera with “pure” Black and White sensor. And you have to pay quite a lot for that unique feature! According to Leicarumors the Leica MP Black and White camera will cost close to $9,000!!!

One the mirrorless front it is also to report that there will be a new X2 camera with fixed 35mm f/1.4 Summilux lens for….$3,000! That’s $1,000 more than you pat for the current Leica X1 (here at Amazon). It has a 16 or 18 MPX sensor (according to Leicarumors) and an optional EVF: LCD and AF are also improved. Too bad this camera doesn’t come with an interchangeable mount!