Leica and Wex will organize a day on September 2, 2026 at Wex Glasgow with advice, hands-on trials of Leica cameras and lenses, and an afternoon photo walk. For photographers, the interest is not only in touching expensive gear, but in seeing what changes when a camera leaves the counter and enters a real shooting situ...
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Leica removed Valery Melnikov from the 2026 shortlist of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and left the official list at eleven series. For photographers, the fact matters because a documentary award also legitimizes context, access, and provenance, not only visual force.The correction is already visible on the prize’s off...
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Big news in the camera world doesn't always arrive with fanfare. Sometimes it's a press release, a date that lines up suspiciously well with a major industry event, and suddenly you realize something genuinely interesting just happened. That's where we are with Freefly Systems becoming the eleventh member of the L-Moun...
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Not long ago, achieving that softly blurred background we associate with professional portraits required a serious investment. Major Japanese and German manufacturers like Leica, Nikon, and Canon dominated that space, and their prices put it out of reach for most people.Today, that has changed. And the change came from...
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Leica is preparing a new member for its SL family: the Leica SL3-P, a full-frame mirrorless camera whose announcement is expected in May 2026. This is not a simple cosmetic update — it is a strategic proposal that fills a real gap within the German brand's catalog, aimed at the professional photographer who lives betwe...
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There was a time when distance had to be measured. By hand. With an instrument.That was photography in 1925. Before pressing the shutter, the photographer mounted the Fodis — an external rangefinder designed by Oscar Barnack — to the camera. Look through the eyepiece. See two images of the same subject, slightly offset...
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The launch of the Xiaomi 17 Ultra in this January 2026 marks a turning point. We are no longer faced with a smartphone with a simple "filter" of Leica; We are facing a deep strategic co-creation where the optical legacy of Wetzlar merges with the most powerful ISP (Image Signal Processor) in the industry.For the photog...
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Update Leica Firmware v4.0.0: Technical improvements for SL3 and Q3 SeriesLeica has released version 4.0.0 of its firmware, mainly focused on the optimization of the focusing system and the unification of the user interface. Below is the technical breakdown of the improvements by system:Leica SL System (SL3 and SL3-S)H...
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