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Leica Camera Launches “Artist Looks” in Leica LUX iPhone App – Debuting With British Star Photographer Greg Williams
Leica Camera Launches “Artist Looks” in Leica LUX iPhone App – Debuting With British Star Photographer Greg Williams The latest update of the Leica LUX app introduces even more opportunities for personal expression and creative flexibility. Developed in close collaboration with renowned British photographer Greg Williams, the new Artist Lookbrings his distinctive cinematic aesthetic to mobile photography. Inspired by classic Tri-X 400 scans and finely tuned for a variety of lighting conditions, the look avoids artificial enhancements and instead emphasizes authenticity, warmth, and intimacy. It also marks the beginning of a new series of Artist Looks to be released in the future. “I wanted to create a look that feels…
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The Xiaomi 13 Series with the latest Leica Camera Features
The Xiaomi 13 Series with the latest Leica Camera Features In July last year, Xiaomi and Leica Camera AG successfully launched their first jointly developed product, the Xiaomi 12S Series. Now, they present the second jointly developed product generation for the international market: The Xiaomi 13 Series. As the second generation of devices developed in this strategic mobile imaging partnership, the Xiaomi 13 Series presents new optical and computational capabilities with Leica True Color Imaging and a newly developed 75mm telephoto lens. It also offers professional camera features already featured on the Xiaomi 12S Ultra, including signature Leica optics and two photographic styles. The optics shine with their high resolution,…
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LEITZ PHONE 1 – The first smartphone designed by Leica
Introducing the Leitz Phone 1 to the Japanese market, the first smartphone to combine uncompromising quality, peerless optical engineering, and imaging software mastery with iconic Leica design. The Leitz-Phone 1 enables you to capture and share personal moments of everyday life with pictures of unique Leica quality.
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TheAppWhisperer’s Press Trip to Leica HQ, Wetzlar and Beyond! Part 1
Many of our readers will be aware that last week I was whisked away to the comfort of Leica HQ, Wetzlar, Germany, by telecom brand, Huawei. Lens and camera manufacturer Leica, originally announced in late 2016 their joint research and development centre with Huawei; working on optical and software systems. Now, this all takes place in the The Max Berek Innovation Lab. The Huawei P20 Pro that I was presented with has three cameras within this device and are co-engineered between Huawei and Leica. A spokesman for Huwawei explained “There has been significant technological collaboration between Huawei and Leica around many aspects of the camera, including optical design, imaging quality,…
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Mobile Photography/Art – App of the Day – Leica FOTOS – ‘Gallery in your Pocket’
We curate mobile videography, photography and art apps here at TheAppWhisperer as we do images, only highlighting ones that are worthy of your time and experience and will allow you to work at a more rewarding level. Today, our App of the Day is the newly redesigned Leica FOTOS app. Compatible with any Wi-Fi enabled Leica camera, the new app delivers features that enable photographers to capture images remotely, transfer, edit and share images quickly, easily, and on-the-go. It’s easy to connect to the new app to transfer RAW photos to your phone; see every detail and check exposure through immersive viewing; remotely control your camera to capture the most…
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The World’s First Photography Competition Judged by AI and a Leica Photographer with Huawei Announced
Huawei has launched a competition to spark a renaissance in photography and discover the next stars of Western Europe’s photography scene, as rated by the HUAWEI P20 Pro’s AI and Alex Lambrechts, a top Leica photographer. The campaign is the latest activity for the HUAWEI P20 Series launch campaign and brings to life Huawei’s leadership in AI photography. “We have trained the AI in our P20 Pro smartphone to understand what makes an amazing photo” explains Andrew Garrihy, CMO Huawei Western Europe. ‘This innovation is helping us to identify emerging creative talent across Europe and showcase their photography potential to others. ” Budding photographers will be encouraged to submit their…
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Leica Camera supports Sky Arts’ search for the ‘Master of Photography’ 2017
I attended the press event for this new series last week, it’s very exciting. The series starts tomorrow evening 25th May 2017 at 8 pm – don’t miss it! European TV talent show for professional and dedicated amateur photographers begins second series with Leica Camera AG as exclusive technical provider Following the enormous success of the first season, the new series of the Sky Arts TV talent show ‘Master of Photography’ will be aired from 25 May 2017 on Sky Arts in the UK and Republic of Ireland, Sky Arte HD in Italy and Sky Arts HD in Germany and Austria. In this second season, Leica Camera AG makes a…
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Leica Photography Competition to Win A HUWAEI P10 Mobile Camera Phone
Leica are hosting a Modern Portraiture Photography Competition staring today and ending on 11 April 2017. All you need to do to enter is upload your best portraits to the Leica FotoPark ‘Modern Portraiture’ category and they have three HUAWEI P10’s to present as prizes. The HUAWEI P10 features a new Leica Dual Camera 2.0 which uses precise 3D facial detection, dynamic illumination, and natural portrait enhancements to produce stunning artistic portrait shots in Leica image style. Just go here to enter this free competition.
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Master of Photography: Leica and Sky Arts search for Europe’s Best Photographer
News just in from my friends and colleagues at Leica (not mobile but very interesting), Leica Camera AG, has announced that it is to become Sky Arts’ exclusive technical provider for ‘Master of Photography’, the first TV talent show dedicated to photography. Scheduled to be broadcast from 21 July in the UK and Ireland on Sky Arts, in Italy on Sky Arte HD, and in Germany and Austria on Sky Arts HD, Master of Photography is a new, unique international production that aims to promote photography in all its forms of expression. Hosted by Isabella Rossellini, the programme will involve 12 young talents – either amateur or pro photographers –…
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Leica and Huawei – Smartphone Photography Partnership
Leica and Chinese Telecom giant Huawei have formed a smartphone photography partnership. That very sentence is quite extraordinary, on the surface Leica and Huawei make strange bedfellows but dig beneath the luscious silk sheets and you will find some stimulating smart moves. Both Leica and Huawei have a lot to gain by this partnership, Leica want a slice of the smartphone photography pie. Huawei is the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world and in 2015 sold more than 100 million devices. Richard Yu, CEO of the HUAWEI Consumer BG said: “We choose our partners carefully, and with this extraordinary collaboration we are offering our wide customer base and consumers the best…
