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[MackThePen]

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A Panasonic GX style camera with a Leica M mount, and Sigma produced (lower cost +/- automation of features) M mount lenses.

[likealot]

Do I recall it menitoned on this forum some time ago that the company said it had aspirations to enter the mobile phone market entirely on its own account eventually?

 

I think it is a Leica mobile phone.

 

I sure hope not. It would be a catastrophy for them.

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[Mistral75]

A Panasonic GX style camera with a Leica M mount, and Sigma produced (lower cost +/- automation of features) M mount lenses.

 

The two Panasonic cameras with Leica L mount (one with 24 MP and the other one with 48 MP) will be named Panasonic S, not Panasonic G.

[Gobert]

A Panasonic GX style camera with a Leica M mount, and Sigma produced (lower cost +/- automation of features) M mount lenses.

Prices of German glass will increase dramatically... I will become a rich man and tell my wife I was doing right after all by buying M glass.

[wattsy]

Perhaps Leica is to become a fully publicly quoted company on the German Stock exchange. (I guesss theoretically it may be so already, but the shares are I think in the hands of only one or two companies? Get your shares now.

 

 

It was a publicly quoted company from the mid 1990s until relatively recently when Dr Kaufmann's investment company bought most of the stock and took it back into private ownership. There was (unsurprisingly) a special edition M6 – "Ein Stück Leica" – to commemorate the original stock market listing.

Edited September 24, 2018 by wattsy

[jaapv]

All of the stock. The last holdouts were acquired through a legal procedure, taking it off the stock exchange.

[jaapv]

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It was a publicly quoted company from the mid 1990s until relatively recently when Dr Kaufmann's investment company bought most of the stock and took it back into private ownership. There was (unsurprisingly) a special edition M6 – "Ein Stück Leica" – to commemorate the original stock market listing.

Ein Stück Leica came with a non-voting share. All shares have reverted.

[Mistral75]

All of the stock. The last holdouts were acquired through a legal procedure, taking it off the stock exchange.

 

Such procedure is named a squeeze-out.

[Paolo.Battista]

Unprecedented announcement in 100-year company history?

 

A Leica watch with double integrated cameras, one with B&W sensor and one with a Foveon one. :-)

[Paolo.Battista]

Unprecedented announcement in 100-year company history?

 

A Leica watch with double integrated cameras, one with B&W sensor and one with a Foveon one. :-)

It means that when you are checking on your watch what time is it, at the same time you take a selfie and a street photo on your right. :-)

[Mistral75]

It's now out:

 

https://twitter.com/nokishita_c/status/1044325097119436801

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nq7ScgaNGMOz1BZV5GybVfW1yF08eIZ/view (press release in German)

 

Press release for a new L-Mount Alliance between Leica, Panasonic and Sigma just leaked online - Leica Rumors (English translation of the press release)

[helged]

Yes: L+P+S is true - and with this trio, also more lenses, including specialised lenses (wide, macro, tele, t&s,...), IBIS, no LENR, improved AF, etc. etc. can/will be offered. Good. Good. Good.

Edited September 24, 2018 by helged

[earleygallery]

There’s been rumours of a Panasonic ‘SL’ so it could be news of a new partnership product but that’s not really unprecedented is it.

 

It must surely be something more about Leica.

 

It could be the phone. They’ve stated that’s an intention.

 

What else? Something following on from the watches perhaps?

 

A new range of Leica fountain pens?

[wda]

No-one has mentioned the next user report by Jonathan Slack. Regardless of subject, once again we will be treated to some attractive photography from China, Cornwall, Crete or Suffolk. I look forward to reading that sometime tomorrow.

Edited September 24, 2018 by wda

[Mistral75]

There’s been rumours of a Panasonic ‘SL’ so it could be news of a new partnership product but that’s not really unprecedented is it.

 

(...)

 

I think Leica voluntarily opening one of their mounts to third parties is unprecedented.

 

The LTM/L39 mount was put into the public domain by the Allies after WWII, like many German intellectual property rights, and the M mount went into the public domain once the patents protecting it had lapsed.

 

The Leica CL was manufactured by Minolta (so did some R mount lenses) but that was a contracting agreement. The Minolta CLE was introduced in  1980, more than 25 years after the Leica M, therefore the patents protecting the M mount should have lapsed by then.

[earleygallery]

Yes but announcing another manufacturers product seems unlikely to be something to make a big fuss over.

 

Unless there’s some new PanaLeica ‘economy’ SL camera too.

[dkCambridgeshire]

How long before Ricoh Pentax adopt the L mount? 

 

dunk 

[helged]

How long before Ricoh Pentax adopt the L mount?

 

dunk

Possibly 11h30min...?

[Mistral75]

Yes but announcing another manufacturers product seems unlikely to be something to make a big fuss over.

 

Unless there’s some new PanaLeica ‘economy’ SL camera too.

 

Have you read the press release?

 

It's now out:

 

https://twitter.com/nokishita_c/status/1044325097119436801

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nq7ScgaNGMOz1BZV5GybVfW1yF08eIZ/view (press release in German)

 

Press release for a new L-Mount Alliance between Leica, Panasonic and Sigma just leaked online - Leica Rumors (English translation of the press release)

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Look here: Interesting Leica gear

[helged]

Yes but announcing another manufacturers product seems unlikely to be something to make a big fuss over.

 

Unless there’s some new PanaLeica ‘economy’ SL camera too.

Panasonic is rumored to come with two FF bodies (24 and 48 mp) in L-mount, scheduled for March 2019, and there are rumors about Sigma body/ies as well. All good, as far as I can understand.

 

And unprecedented.