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Leica D-LUX 5: New firmware follows in footsteps of Panasonic LX5

By Imaging Resource, published 17-12-2011

Leica Camera AG has today released updated firmware for its D-LUX 5 and D-LUX 5 Titanium digital cameras, following in the footsteps of that released by partner company Panasonic for its LX5 digital camera a little over three months ago. Firmware v2.0 for the D-LUX 5 looks to exactly mirror that for the DMC-LX5, making a number of changes to add new features and improve performance. There's a new Miniature Effect function in the D-LUX 5's My Colour mode, which adds either a horizontal or vertical graduated blur effect to images. The position around which the image is blurred can be... (read more)

Leica aims for 1% camera market share

By TechRadar, published 11-09-2011

Leica, the historic premium camera brand is looking to increase its market share to 1% of the global camera market. Speaking to German Newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, chairman and majority owner of Leica, Andreas Kaufmann, said that the company hoped to achieve its target within the next 10 years.Currently, Leica enjoys a share of 0.15%, with the US forming its biggest customer base. Kaufmann also told the newspaper that he expects China to overtake as the biggest market within five years. HistoricGerman photography maker Leica was founded in 1913 and became especially prevalent amongst street photographers, particularly around the middle of the 20th century. Today, Leica still produces premium cameras, such as the £5,000 M9, the smallest full-frame interchangeable lens camera ...

Special Edition LEICA D-LUX 5 Titanium

By Imaging Resource, published 20-10-2011

Powerful compact camera with deluxe titanium look Leica Camera AG, Solms, is proud to present a new special edition of the D-Lux line: the Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium. The compact camera with its silver-grey look is impressively elegant in design, and the superb workmanship of the materials used further reinforces its refined appearance. Together with the colour-matching leather camera bag the Leica D-Lux 5 Titanium is an object of desire for lovers...(read more)

Leica announces Paul Smith collaboration

By TechRadar, published 28-07-2011

Leica has announced a collaboration with British designer Paul Smith.The limited edition cases are made to fir the Leica D-Lux 5 digital camera. Just 300 of the cases will be made available. 150 will be in a smooth chocolate brown calf leather with the famous Paul Smith vintage multi-stripe on the sides. A further 150 will be made ina light grey croc-style embossed leather with purple lining.The cases are hand made in England and embossed with Paul Smith for Leica on the back. Both designes also feature a matching shoulder strap.The Paul Smith for Leica cases will be sold at Leica's London-based store, the Leica Store Mayfair and at Paul Smith stores throughout the UK. The cases are a British exclusive and won't be available worldwide.Paul Smith for Leica case priceThe cases will retail fo...

Review Roundup: This week's hottest reviews on TechRadar

By TechRadar, published 30-04-2011

This week we got our hands on the hugely impressive Samsung Galaxy S2 and the eagerly awaited BlackBerry PlayBook.We also spent some time looking through the lens of the good-looking Leica X1 and tested more Sandy Bridge chips from Intel.Read on for the most popular reviews on TechRadar this week.Samsung Galaxy S2 reviewThe Samsung Galaxy S2 is the phone the Korean firm deems a worthy successor to its best smartphone so far - with a 1.2GHz processor, super-slim chassis and feather-light innards, it's easy to see why.The phone is almost impossibly thin when you pick it up – dimensions of 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5mm mean it's one of the thinnest smartphones on the market at the moment, rivalling the likes of the iPhone 4 and Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc for the title.BlackBerry PlayBook reviewWith a ...

Review: Leica X1

By TechRadar, published 27-04-2011

Leica X1 review: overviewThe X1 used for this review has the recently updated firmware, V.2.0Leica's foray into the digital world may have been at a slower and more considered pace than what we're used to seeing, but working in partnership with Panasonic has nevertheless meant that it's managed to saturate a healthy range of the camera market. For more everyday use the company's point-and-shoot C-LUX and enthusiast D-LUX ranges sit at the base of its stable, while the M9 rangefinder and S2 medium format model lie at the other end to cater for professionals. In between the two, and among a handful of intermediate models, sits the X1, which can safely be considered as the company's answer to the growing popularity of compact system cameras. In many ways the model is unique, or at least it wa...

Innovation Underwater: Nauticam NA-LX5 Housing for Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

By Imaging Resource, published 19-04-2011

Nauticam proudly announces the NA-LX5 Housing for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5. This camera and housing package offers functionality and image quality traditionally only available from much larger SLR systems plus ease of use previously found only in compact systems. Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 and Leica D-Lux 5 Panasonics LX5 camera is at the top of the compact camera world, with features rivaling much larger cameras. Featuring a 10 megapixel...(read more)