If you have the money you can now take out your credit card to preorder the new Leica 50mm f/1.4 SL lens at BHphoto ($5,295). There are yet no reviews of the lens to see how well it performs. but a real Leica-man doesn’t care…he just buys a lens like that :)
The Leica M10 will be announced in mid January as you read first here on Mirrorlessrumors. The image above got leaked a month ago and finally we also have the a few specs:
24Mp FF sensor
MAESTRO II engine
it is as small as an analogue M camera
Improved finder
5fps
Wifi
Improved menu system
via Nokishita
Well this is certainly a weird way of trying to make money on cameras: Relounch (website here) offers a subscription service which costs $99 per month. For that you get a camera with one button only(!) and a photo development service:
At Relonch, we understand that you shouldn’t be forced to deal with a bunch of hassles to get the remarkable photos you want. We’ve replaced the traditional Chain of Pain with a single small round button. With Relonch, you get:
Only this technology ensures that you get remarkable photos with just one click.
Nikon registered a new camera model with the code “N1610”. This is likely to be a new Nikon 1 camera model. Once registered it takes up to 1-2 months until the camera gets announced. So expect it to be announced between the CES and Cp+ show.
via Nokishita
Luminous Landscape had a chat with Hasselblad CEO. We finally got an answer about why the camera shipment has been delayed multiple times:
Hasselblad had the problem of how to ramp up manufacturing, and how to fix issues in firmware so they wouldn’t deliver a camera that was buggy. And, to complicate things even worse, there was the Kumamoto earthquake that severely hit many Japanese camera makers as well as the Sony chip plant.
He (CEO Perry Oosting) certainly wishes to apologize to those that have ordered cameras and wants to reassure everyone that the team at Hasselblad is working very hard to get orders out the door. He knows they should have been more transparent and wanted me to express this to those that read this. They need to and will do a better job in the future.
But at last the cameras are shipping:
As of today, Hasselblad is now shipping cameras with version 1 firmware. This shipping firmware has some things added since the early firmware, and many people will enjoy these, like Auto-White Balance and especially the ability to select from 30 AF points. They feel the majority of shipments will begin in January with higher quantities of product. Hasselblad will offer anyone who ordered an X1D in 2016 an extra six months of warranty as a way saying Thank You and We Are Sorry.
And Dpreview started testing the camera and writes:
The samples I shot with it demonstrate that we have some great resolution and dynamic range to look forward to. With such a large sensor, and the ability 50 million pixels gives for magnification, there is little room for focusing error, but the amount of detail that it is possible to record is fantastic.
The dynamic range also allows for plenty exposure latitude and curves adjustments before tones begin to separate and before noise becomes an issue.
I don’t know if Hasselblad has finished tuning the sensor’s color, but I have been very happy with skin tones and the way a wide range of shades have been rendered.
Preorder the camera at BHphoto (Click here).
