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.
17 Responses
Pff, Steve Huff isn’t big. No Sultan of Brunei? No Seal? Oh, wait, they’ve probably already gotten private presentations…
b&w@8k and a tweaked x1? absolutely pants
Could you imagine if at the end of a MacWorld Keynote speech, Steve Jobs had said, “One more thing… But first a dinner break”
LOL!!!
LOL! 🙂
LOL!!
Good camera as usual and overpriced beyond belief as usual.
It is quite cheap for a monochrome camera.
It would have been a bargain if only it offered true monochrome output!
Well, I always thought that Leica cameras were a bit elitist. Now they’re just ludicrous……I simply don’t “get it”, obviously. Perhaps I simply don’t have enough spare money?
Filling you with beer so you’ll forget the price!
That was a good one!!! 😉
RAW histogram and clipping warnings = win. Now if only the rest of the camera companies would get with the program.
Shame on you Leica……………Leica X2 what a joke… owerpriced shit
#occupyleica
Perhaps Leica could sweeten the deal by including a free copy of NIK Color Efex Pro with the new Leica M9 monochrome? HA! 🙂