Continually updated: The Leica event in Berlin live!
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.