According to Leica, the first Leica S2 are delivered to customers. The first one went to Jim Rakete, a renowned photographer in Berlin.
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First Leica S2 rolled out
December 12th, 2009Leica M9
September 9th, 2009Leica has announced the M9, a full frame rangefinder camera. It features a 24x36mm 18 Megapixel sensor developed by Kodak. With this sensor every Leica M-mount lens provides the originally intended field of view. Also new: an UV/IR cover-glass filter which means no need for lens filters, one stop improvement in noise.

Nikon S1000pj – the worlds first projector camera
August 4th, 2009Nikon has announced the worlds first projector camera, the Nikon S1000pj. A groundbreaking feature for a compact camera that will deliver the ultimate fun!
The small camera projects images up to 40 inches in size with a VGA resolution and at a maximum distance of 2 meters. But see yourself and watch the promo video from Nikon:
All detailled infos at http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/coolpix/s1000pj/index.htm or at the micro site http://www.nikon-coolpix.com/en/?cid=IGD98BGZIG0
Pentax K-7
May 21st, 2009Dpreview has published a first preview of the new Pentax K-7
Fastest camera of the world: 6 million fps
May 2nd, 2009Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) made a camera that can shoot up to 6.1 million pictures per second – that’s a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. This currently comes at the price of a resolution of just 3000 pixels. Read the full story at Wired.