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Leica D SUMMILUX 25mm ASPH lens

Dennis Hissink
Photokina report
Monday 2nd, October 2006
Posted by: Dennis Hissink

During our meeting with mister Suguru Takamatsu, Coordi-nator Marketing Team Overseas Sales & Marketing Group and Ichiro Kitao, Product Planning Manager, from Panasonic we had a little hands-on with the new Leica D SUMMILUX 25mm f1.4 ASPH lens. The new Leica lens incorporates a large total large total of 10 lens elements in 9 groups, including a large-diameter aspherical lens. The bright standard f/1.4 lens provides a superb high-quality optical performance. The large diameter front lens ensures sufficient peripheral light levels, and a large-diameter front aspherical lens reduces light degradation all the way to the lens periphery. The result is high resolution and absolutely minimum lens distortion.

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Leica D SUMMILUX 25mm lens

Leica Elmarit-M 28mm ASPH lens

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Friday 15th, September 2006

Leica Camera AG, Solms is exhibiting the new Leica Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 mm ASPH. at photokina in Cologne. The Leica Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 mm ASPH. adds a particularly compact wide-angle lens with high imaging capability to the palette of lenses for the Leica ranging viewfinder system. Thanks to the use of an ASPH.erical lens, the optical performance is once again significantly increased in comparison to preceding models. With a weight of only 180 grams, the Leica Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 mm ASPH. is the lightest of all the Leica M lenses. The new wide-angle lens can be used both on Leica M analog camera models and also on the new digital Leica M8.

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Canon EF50mm f/1.2L USM lens

Posted by: Ilse Jurrien Thursday 24th, August 2006

Canon continues its tradition of optical excellence with a new EF lens - the powerful EF50mm f/1.2L USM lens. The new Canon lens is a valuable addition to the EOS arsenal for professional wedding and portrait photographers as well as advanced amateurs - expanding the range of current Canon EF lenses to more than 60 selections. "The EF50mm f/1.2L USM lens is now the fastest autofocus lens in its class, which makes it an essential tool for many professional and advanced amateur photographers," said Yukiaki Hashimoto, senior vice president and general manager of the consumer imaging group at Canon USA, Inc. The powerful and fast EF50mm f/1.2L USM lens will be available in November for a price of $1,599.

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Where there is one market booming, the digital SLR market, we find automatically an increasing demand for digital SLR lenses. A SLR lens is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a digital reflex body to capture digital images of objects on flash memory cards. Besides the manufacturers of the digital SLR bodies who are producing a diverse range of SLR lenses and introduced before and during the Photokina 2006 their latest lenses for DSLR cameras, there a multiple manufacturers who are specialized in producing SLR lenses for certain brands. The increasing demand of digital SLR products is good news for SLR lens manufacturer and even after many years of SLR lens production innovations are still made in the developing of SLR lenses. Bookmark the special Photokina 2006 report to make sure you will get the latest SLR lens information from the show floor.