![]() Leica owns the L mount and will continue to control its specifications Sigma will produce cameras using with its unique 3-layered Foveon sensor. Leica, as per usual, will focus on making products that can’t be made using mass-production techniques, but instead strive to produce exceptional, specially made products that are unconstrained by price. Each also considers that they’re aiming at different segments of the photography market: for instance Panasonic is targeting high-end professional users who work equally with both stills and video. Instead, they will independently make cameras and lenses that they think will meet their customers’ needs. The three companies may be in ‘alliance’, but strictly speaking they’re not working together. Leica also makes two very different APS-C bodies, the ultra-modern TL2 and the more classically-styled CL, along with seven matched lenses, three zooms and four primes. In addition, Leica has just announced that 35mm f/2 and 50mm f/2 primes are also about to enter full production, and revealed that 28mm f/2, 24mm f/2 and 21mm f/2 lenses are on their way. These will all be available to use with Panasonic’s expected new camera at launch, albeit with the considerable caveat that their prices range from £3750 to £5100. ![]() Sigma’s E-mount lenses are essentially SLR optics with an adapter tubeĪs for Leica, it already makes the SLR-like full-frame mirrorless SL (Typ 601) along with six matched lenses – a 16-35mm f/3.5-4.5, 24-90mm f/2.8-4, 90-280mm f/2.8-4, 50mm f/1.4, 75mm f/2 and 90mm f/2. Panasonic has used the Leica name on many of its lenses, while Leica has for many years sold fixed-lens compacts that are re-workings of Panasonic Lumix models. Broadly speaking, Panasonic contributes its extensive know-how in electronics, in exchange for a slice of Leica’a optical expertise. Panasonic and Leica already have a long-running relationship that dates back to 2001. This gives Panasonic and Sigma a shortcut into this rapidly-expanding sector of the market, without having to develop an entirely new mount. ![]() Hot on the heels of Canon and Nikon each introducing their own new full-frame mirrorless systems, this development sees Panasonic and Sigma formally licensing Leica’s existing L-mount, as used by the firm’s full-frame SL and APS-C T systems. In what is surely the biggest news story coming out of Photokina 2018, Leica, Panasonic and Sigma have jointly announced the ‘L-Mount Alliance’ for the production of full-frame mirrorless cameras and lenses. Mr Kazuto Yamaki of Sigma, Dr Andreas Kaufman of Leica, and Mr Junichiro Kitagawa of Panasonic jointly presented the launch of the L-Mount Alliance
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