Pinhole Pro S | World’s Widest Professional Pinhole Lens
The World’s Widest Professional Pinhole Lens is on Kickstarter.
The World’s Widest Professional Pinhole Lens is on Kickstarter.
For $12,795 the new 75mm lens can be yours at BHphoto.
Many camera players are struggling making profit in the camera business. Seems like Leica has no such issues. Despite having a crazy wide portfolio of all kind of cameras (compacts, APS-C, FF, MF…) they just reported “strong revenue growth”:
Leica Camera AG records strong revenue growth for the 2016/2017 financial year and bucks the downward trend in the camera market
The Leica Camera Group achieved revenue of almost 400 million euros in the past financial year 2016/2017 (31 March 2017) and can therefore look back very positively on the previous twelve-month period. With strong revenue growth of more than six per cent, Leica bucked the overall downward trend in the global camera market, which declined by around 10 per cent in the same period.
In the first few months of the current financial year 2017/2018, cumulative growth stands at 15 per cent, thus underscoring the positive global performance of Leica Camera AG. Despite a market environment that remains challenging, the CEO of Leica Camera AG, Matthias Harsch, once again expects a record-breaking result for the 2017/2018 financial year. As a result, the revenue of Leica Camera AG has increased more than fourfold since anchor investor and majority shareholder Dr Andreas Kaufmann came on board in 2004.
The main driver of growth is the systematic realignment of the company that has taken place in recent years. In particular, the setting up of an in-house Retail Distribution division has made a major contribution to revenue growth. Leica now has 90 monobrand stores around the world, which are vital in terms of promoting brand experience in the context of photography. ‘China is our number-one growth market,’ says Matthias Harsch, who is planning 20 to 30 new stores in the country alone. The Group is now strengthening its presence in the service sector with the Leica Akademie brand in order to boost the appeal of photography amongst younger target groups.
The extremely successful technology and brand partnership with Chinese company Huawei in the field of mobile phone photography makes Leica one of the world’s leading providers of smartphone lens applications, a burgeoning technology segment that serves as a global basis for new product ideas and applications in photography.
The entry of Leica into the eyewear segment (glasses) – a move that was completed in 2017 – offers further potential for strong revenue growth in the years ahead. Operating under the name of Leica Eyecare, the company will systematically tap into this global market in conjunction with its technology partner Novacel.
Leica (press text here) just announced this stunning Noctilux-M 75mm f/1,25. It all a giant piece of glass!
The lens will ship sometimes in early 2018 and cost 11.900€. You have to love Leica for still doing lenses nobody else does :) and nobody of us can afford :(
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Blog article at Leica and image samples at Leica.
This camera collected over one million dollar on Kickstarter. And starting from today you can found it through Indiegogo. What a crazy success story this is!
TCSTV posted this video with Rob Galbraith:
With the Sony A9, Panasonic G9 Fuji X-T2, we’re seeing mirrorless camera makers start to target the last DSLR stronghold, sports and photojournalism. This week Rob Galbraith is joining us to discuss how much progress has been made, and what mirrorless cameras still need to tackle to completely dominate the industry.
Leica finally announced the new CL camera and the 18mm pancake lens:
Preorders:
Leica CL at BHphoto.
Leica 18mm lens at BHphoto.
Reviews and hands-on:
Review by Jonathan Slack. CL camera at CameraJabber. ThePhoBlographer. ePhotozine. Leica CL vs TL2 at CameraJabber. Leica CL test in German at L-Camera-Forum.
18mm lens at CameraJabber. ePhotozine.
Discussions:
New Leica CL Facebook group.
Press text:
CL camera at Leica. Dpreview.
18mm lens at Leica.