MS Optical Sonnetar 50/1.1 @ f1.4, Leica M9 JPG, photo by Ming We are pleased to announce the release of the MS Optical Sonnetar 50/1.1 lens in Leica M mount. The lens is available for order now in our web shop. Orders will be served in the order received. Please note that as usual there might be a waiting period between receiving your order and fulfilment,... 

MS Optical Perar Super Triplet 35/3.5 Silver The MS Optical lens Super Triplet Perar 4/28 continues to be popular, in fact so popular that the complete batch of 28mm Perar is close to being sold out and there are currently no plans for another production run. Stocks for the long-selling Super Triplet Perar 3.5/35 Mark II are also depleting and while... 

Premier quality lens adapter manufacturer Rayqual have today released the manual focus lens to Fujifilm X-Pro 1 mount adapter. The following lens mounts are available: Leica M Nikon F Contax/Yashica Canon FD Pentax K Olympus OM M42 Leica R Exakta Adapters for autofocus lenses (Nikon FG, Pentax DA) including an aperture control ring will following... 

Above photo taken with Perar 35 #003 on Leica M9 We are pleased with the response to the newly released MS Optical Super Triplet 28/4 lens and would like to give you an update on this and the 35/3.5 lens. The 28mm Perar is seeing very good uptake and we are getting a lot of positive feedback on it. We had expected that the demand will outpace the rate... 

We are pleased to announce the release of a 28mm version of the popular MS Optical Super Triplet Perar 3.5/35: the MS Optical Super Triplet Perar 4/28. The lens is available for pre-order now in our web shop. Orders will be served in the order received. Please note that as usual there might be a waiting period between receiving your order and fulfilment,... 

We are pleased to announce the availability of a second run of this popular lens. It is available for order now in our web shop. The MS Optical Super Triplet Perar 3.5/35 Mark II is optically identical to first version. In this revision, some minor changes were made: Native Leica M mount, not LTM with adapter More robust, thicker focussing lever Minor... 

The lens is now sold out, please see here for details on the second production run. The simplest optical design that is capable of correcting all of the seven Seidel aberrations over a wide field of view is the Cooke triplet, developed by H. Dennis Taylor in 1893. It is named after the optical company in York, England, for which Taylor worked at... 

Shiyo Takahashi, Manager at Leica Ginza Shop (Taken with Leica Noctilux-M 50/f1.0) The Leica and Japan — an association of which many legends are made of, but perhaps also a relationship that is often misunderstood or misinterpreted. Many people see the Japanese camera market solely populated by wealthy individuals that will put the precious machine... 

Premier quality lens adapter manufacturer Rayqual have today released the first version of their range of lens mount adapters for Sony E-mount cameras, such as the Sony NEX3 and NEX5. The adapter for Leica M mount rangefinder lenses is available as of today, with other manual focus mount versions (Nikon F, Canon FD and Contax/Yashica) and adapters... 

We are pleased to announce an addition of a Olympus E-PL1 and and Leica X1 versions to our popular range of hand-made leather camera cases. It is good to see that the trend towards high performance and presentably stylish camera continues as more and more people seem to appreciate this type of camera. A quality camera case will make these high-tech,...