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Leica announces X Vario zoom compact with APS-C sensor
Leica has officially announced its much-teased (and leaked) X Vario - the world's first compact camera with an APS-C sensor and fixed zoom lens. Its Vario Elmar 18-46mm 1:3.5-6.4 ASPH lens offers a 28-70mm equivalent range, and sits in front of a 16.1MP CMOS sensor. Viewing is via a 920k dot 3" LCD, or the same optional plug-in EVF as used by the M Typ 240 and X2. The camera has control dials on the top plate for shutter speed and aperture, and zoom and focus rings around the lens barrel. The price tag is a hefty $2850/£2250.
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New: Leica X Vario
The Highly Anticipated 'Mini M' Features Characteristics Reminiscent of the Legendary M-System
Solms, Germany, 11 June 2013: Leica Camera AG has unveiled the latest addition to its digital compact camera offerings and presents the Leica X Vario. Made in Leica Camera's headquarters in Germany, the X Vario features a high-performance 16.5-megapixel (effective 16.1), APS-C format, CMOS image sensor, a zoom lens covering a range of focal lengths from 28 to 70 mm (35 mm equivalent) and Full-HD video recording capability. With several design and handling characteristics of the storied M-System, the 'Made in Germany' Leica X Vario offers great versatility and creative freedom.
The X Vario's high performance image sensor is unusually large for a camera in its class. Combined with the Leica Vario Elmar 18-46 mm f/3.5-6.4 ASPH, it sets completely new standards for imaging quality in the compact segment with outstanding exposures in all situations. The Leica X Vario is the world's first compact camera to combine a large, APS-C format, CMOS image sensor with a zoom lens.
From expansive interior shots, landscapes to portrait photography, the range of focal lengths offered by the Leica X Vario opens up entirely new horizons for creative photography. The camera's versatility is further expanded by a new, 1080p Full HD video recording function that allows photographers to record memories at a frame rate of 30 full frames per second. The video data can be saved in MP4 format and uploaded directly to social media or mobile devices without any need for conversion. An integrated wind-noise filter that reduces undesirable noise guarantees crystal-clear sound recording.
The Leica X Vario's wide range of camera setting options combined with its fast and precise autofocus offers even the most demanding photographers maximum creative freedom – for spontaneous shots as well as for carefully arranged compositions.
The Leica X Vario is distinguished by an intensely focused design concept. Its handy form, linear design and the premium materials used in its construction are reminiscent of the Leica M-System. For instance, the top plate is machined from solid aluminium in the same process used for the Leica M. This, in combination with its robust metal construction and premium high-grip leather trim ensures that the X Vario is a classic Leica camera in terms of both look and feel.
Further showcasing Leica M DNA, the X Vario features an intuitive handling concept with clearly laid out functions. The user-friendly operation of the menu interface guarantees rapid access to an impressive range of automatic and versatile manual setting options. Combined with the ease of switching between manual and automatic control, it allows photographers to concentrate completely on composing their subjects and choosing the decisive instant to shoot in any situation. The dials on the top plate provide grip when setting the shutter speed and aperture. Moreover, changing the plane of focus, the white balance, and other imaging parameters allows photographers to consciously influence the look or mood of their images. In Live View mode, the generously sized high-contrast, 3-inch monitor offers photographers complete control at all times and a detailed view– even in bright surroundings.
An extensive range of accessories is also available to adapt the Leica X Vario to photographers' particular needs. For example, the Leica EVF 2 Viso-Flex electronic accessory viewfinder with 1.4 megapixels and a 90° swivel function is extremely helpful when shooting from unusual angles. An accessory handgrip makes it easier to shoot one-handed and provides a better grip. As with the Leica M (Typ 240), finger loops in three different sizes (S, M and L) can be attached to the handgrip, helping further ensure safe and steady handling of the camera. An optional lens hood ensures the minimisation of reflections and the Leica SF 24 D flash unit offers greater freedom for subject lighting.
Leica continues to provide a comprehensive range of superbly finished bags, cases and straps that complement the elegance of the X Vario: An ergonomically designed camera protector and an every-ready case in premium black or tan leather; wrist and carrying straps that can be combined with all Leica X and M cameras are also offered in untreated natural leather in black or tan. Whenever the X Vario is used with multiple accessories, photographers can take advantage of the system bag.
Included Software
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®, a professional digital workflow solution for Apple Mac® OS X and Microsoft Windows®, is also included in the Leica X Vario package. This digital image processing software offers a wide range of functions for the management, processing and presentation of digital images. The software is available to X Vario customers as an online download after product registration.
Pricing and Availability
Available now in the UK from authorised Leica dealers including the Leica Store Mayfair, www.leica-storemayfair.co.uk, tel: 020 7629 1351, the Leica X Vario is offered in a black finish. It is also available as a set with the X Vario camera protector and carrying strap in tan leather. The suggested retail price of the Leica X Vario is £2,150 inc. VAT; the set SRP is £2,250.
Individual accessories are priced as follows (SRP including VAT):
- EVF 2 Viso-Flex: £380
- Lens hood: £90
- Handgrip: £100
- SF 24 D flash unit: £270
- Finger loops for handgrip: £90 in S, M or L
- Leather ever-ready case in black or tan: £180
- Leather camera protector in black or tan: £90
- Carrying strap with protective flap in black or tan: £80
- Wrist strap with protective flap in black or tan: £60
The range of optional accessories will be available following the launch of the camera.
Leica X Vario specifications
|Body type
|Body type
|Large sensor compact
|Max resolution
|4928 x 3272
|Other resolutions
|4944 x 3272, 4288 x 2856, 3264 x 2160, 2144 x1424, 1632 x 1080
|Image ratio w:h
|Effective pixels
|16 megapixels
|Sensor photo detectors
|17 megapixels
|Sensor size
|APS-C (23.6 x 15.8 mm)
|Sensor type
|Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12500
|White balance presets
|Custom white balance
|Yes (2)
|Image stabilization
|Uncompressed format
|JPEG quality levels
|Fine, Standard
|File format
|Optics & Focus
|Focal length (equiv.)
|28–70 mm
|Optical zoom
|Maximum aperture
|Autofocus assist lamp
|Manual focus
|Normal focus range
|30 cm (11.81″)
|Number of focus points
|Screen / viewfinder
|Articulated LCD
|Screen size
|Screen dots
|Live view
|Viewfinder type
|Electronic (optional)
|Photography features
|Minimum shutter speed
|30 sec
|Maximum shutter speed
|1/2000 sec
|Exposure modes
|Built-in flash
|Yes (Pop-up)
|External flash
|Yes (with Leica SF 24D, Leica SF 58 flash units)
|Flash modes
|Auto, On, Off, Red-Eye, Front Curtain, Rear Curtain, Slow sync, Studio
|Continuous drive
|5.0 fps
|Yes (2 or 12 sec)
|Metering modes
|Exposure compensation
|±3 (at 1/3 EV steps)
|AE Bracketing
|±3 (3 frames at 1/3 EV steps)
|Videography features
|Videography notes
|1080p 30fps
|Storage types
|USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/sec)
|Battery Pack
|Battery description
|Leica BP-DC8
|Battery Life (CIPA)
|Weight (inc. batteries)
|680 g (1.50 lb / 23.99 oz)
|133 x 73 x 95 mm (5.24 x 2.87 x 3.74″)
|Other features
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Leica X Vario reviews often ignore the deadly silent lens leaf shutter with flash synch to 1/2000th sec.
When the RX1 is reviewed the lens leaf shutter is described:
"The lens, which is designated as a Carl Zeiss Sonnar T*, features a leaf shutter for essentially silent operation (though you can engage a sound effect if you wish). This design means the camera can sync with flashes all the way up to its 1/2000th maximum shutter speed, as well as allowing the lens to reach closer to the front of the sensor."
This seems odd.
I bought a Leica X Vario so I can have the totally silent, vibration-free simple gadget-free photography that I grew up with!
Grab the ever ready case & go. No bag of lenses, no flash, no tripod.
I photographed the night Movie World White Christmas hand held. No problem.
All the money went on basics in this camera.
Vignetting & distortion are easily fixed in camera with no image degradation so all investment went to making a chromatic abberation corrected lens.
A fixed lens allows the price of a camera & lens is < or = a cheaper M lens.
A fixed zoom lens which at 50mm Erwin Puts claims surpasses the M Apo Aspherical 50mm f2 Summicron! The compromise for delivering affordable excellence is the slower apperture.
A great 50mm with 28mm, 35mm, 70mm thrown in.
I love the feel of the portraits. Great ooc jpegs!
Intellectual thumb-suckers seem highly focused on specs simple enough for them to understand & compare:
Focal length
F stops
Pixel #
What about the subtle specs like:
edge to edge lack of chromatic aberrations
micro contrast
colour accuracy etc
Nikon made the stunning 25-50mm Nikkor f4 in mf film days. Expensive to make. Not so good on the routine specs but unsurpassed in colour rendition.
The same breed of intellectual thumb-suckers said "pass" to buying & Nikon ceased production to focus on what thumb-suckers will buy in droves!
Nothing has changed as Leica targets the 1% of the market left unserviced.
Sad watching wannabe Einsteins conducting thought experiments on a camera they have never used in anger.
Taking delivery today so judgement postponed.
When is a camera & lens good enough?
1) When photography as I grew up doing it is intuitive
2) When the lens has the the equivalent of 35mm optimal 40 lp/mm resolution ie 60 lp/mm for APSC
3) When signal to noise is far better than a 2 micron pixel
4) When clean higher ISO makes a slow lens less relevant
5) When the combination of body & lens gives distortion & vignetting pre-corrected for jpegs
6) When jpeg colour needs no or minimal correction
7) When zero time needs to be wasted in LR to deliver the biggest enlargement I have ever made
8) When I don't have to fumble interchangeable lenses on a flight or trip
9) When Erwin Puts assures us that at 50mm the LXV lens surpasses the $AUD8600 Leica M Apo 50 Asph Summicron but throws in 28, 35 & 70mm for $2850 if I wear the 1/3 stop slower lens than routine zooms.
10) When manual focus is easy
11) When shutter is silent unlike Sony A7 family
12) When the build quality of the lens gives sustainability over a long life
Ticks all my boxes!
Who says this X Vario is expensive? Check this out;
At $1,736... cheaper than the X2.... or was it a typo error??
Since the introduction of the Leica X Vario about two weeks ago, there has been a lot of negative comments about the camera. Very few has actually tried it before drawing conclusion.
I have my disappointments.
It has a rather slow fixed zoom lens.
It does not have image stabilisation.
It does not have touch screen.
It does not have a built-in EVF.
......and more.
I have a chance to try the camera today and many of the short comings noted earlier were not that important afterall. It is really very well made, holds and balance well, weighty without being heavy, simple to use and give great image quality. One has to try it to appreciate it. Well, you just have to find one.
For more information, go to:
It may have a few surprises lurking under the skin.
The statement "the world's first compact camera with an APS-C sensor and fixed zoom lens" is not true.
The Sony DSC-R1 was the first, and DP Review comment in their review of the Sony in 2005 that it is "First non-SLR (fixed lens digital) camera to feature a large format sensor (APS-C size)", and it has a 24-120mm fixed lens.
It seems clear that the Sony was simply too good and threatened all existing camera ranges, and was subsequently discontinued. Since then we have had an entirely unnecessary population of compact system cameras simply to generate profit in the industry.
DP Review know this Leica is not a first and yet they claim it to be so. Perhaps they should be more honest.
I still have my Sony R1, but I think with this new Leica it is a question of what is termed a "compact" camera. My R1 certainly doesn't fall into the accepted definition of a compact, indeed it is very bulky and heavy so, playing with words, Leica is technically correct as they haven't claimed it as the first APS-C with fixed zoom.
Well it is more panache than a Lumix. And that red Leica badge of honor. Weeoh!
Here is a different viewpoint.
What is a camera? A box with a lens on one side and an image collecting surface on the opposite side.
Where are we at today? A chip is used instead of film. The image is moved from the chip to storage media through an "Image Pipeline" & finally to a computer.
Who makes most of the industries chips? Answer: Nikon, and most other camera manufacturers chips are made by Sony.
Millions of pounds/dollars is currently being invested in "Image Pipeline" R&D by each major manufacturer.
What is required to develop all this technology? Answer: Very large amounts of cash.
If a manufacturer is only selling a few cameras, then the retail price for each unit has to be very high.
So is the new Leica a very good camera or just one of a crowd with a very high price tag. Is it value for money? We'll have to wait and see. Why so many flaws in the main review?
I think that electronic viewfinders, fed from the sensor via the "Image Pipeline" is the future. Goodbye SLR.
Ok, lets put away the price tag for a moment.
What exactly is then wrong with the camera? Nothing, I would say. The lens is probably excellent. The zoom range is absolutely ok, the f-stop range is comparable to that of most standard zooms if one realises that 6.4 is just 1/3 less than 5.6. It has a decent sensor size and is relatively small and light.
Of course, Leica could have choosen a f2.8 lens but that would have increased size and weight enormously (e.g., the Nikkor DX 17-55, f2.8 weighs 755 g! That is more than the entire X Vario).
So, coming back to the price tag. What exactly do you expect from a camera made in Germany??? The gross salary of a Leica employee is probaly between 3000-4000 €. That's presumably 5-10 times more than what a chinese worker will get. And there are reasons for that! I certainly don't want to start a political discussion but maybe all the other cameras are much to cheap ;-)
And the good news is: you don't have to buy it!
The Leica Vario-Summicron 24-90 mm f/2.0 on the D-Lux 5 is an amazingly sharp and compact lens. It's designed for a far smaller sensor. Of course I'm not an optical engineer, but why can't Leica provide a lens like that, scaled up in size for the APS-C sensor? I have previously splashed cash for Leicas including a true M rangefinder, but this f/3.5 widest aperture of the X is a total deal breaker, meaning there is zero chance I would even desire to get it. It is THAT BAD.
A valid point, but I am willing to bet that the average purchaser of this camera doesn't even know what an aperture is, nor how they work. The so f/3.5 thus becomes irrelevant
Or perhaps they are more interested in images than numbers.
Put aside all the snobery, envy and disgust (for the Leica X vario) , real photographers do shoot with Leica and many used it to the best of their potential.
If one wants to shoot Leica, they have to master rangefinder manual focusing and that's definitely not everybody's cup of tea. Similarly, not everybody like a DSLR due to the weight.
Not many people will shoot and review Leica cameras. For some interesting and informative insight go to:
As a stark contrast to launch of this Leica - just look at the user's comments on sigma F1.8 zoom. People love it, and are ready to pay whatever for it (me included).
If this Leica is really a posh accessory, why couldn't they make it a really good posh accessory? Constant F2.8 or even F3.5 would suffice, but what they did really baffles me. - The question is not the amount of money for this tool, but the fact it is hardly usable with sensor and lens limitation.
And when we are at lens, what kind of crap is that? The released samples show loads of problems, and at that price point, there shouldn't be *any* aberrations, or falls of sharpness. And especially on the compact with lens designed for it. I used Sigma DP1, which I was not happy with, but the lens sharpness wide open were top-notch. Now, if you consider the price of DP1 compared to this, it seems like they think buyers are idiots. And literally - owner of this camera would be close to an idiot (I apologize on the wording).
Although most of us may wish for a f/1.8 constant aperture 18-35mm on a Leica Mini-M, technically it would not be possible. Similar to the Sigma, it will be just too heavy. The Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 is about 800 gsm. Thus, if Leica can provide a f/4.0 constant aperture lens on the Mini-M it would be acceptable.
It is not proper to compare the Sigma DP1 Merrill which has a fixed 28mm f/2.8 lens with the Leica X Vario. One should compare the DP1 with the Nikon A which has a similar lens setup.
That hypothetical constant F2.8 zoom would weigh a lot and cost a whole bunch more money.
It would also make the camera and lenses big--see the 85mm Samsung (Optron) F1.4 for the NX system.
Good Leica lenses are better at colour than even good Sigma lenses.
Now what would be interesting would be the hypothetical 4th generation of this Leica X series--it could be built to take interchangeable AF Leica X lenses.
@HowaboutRAW - the "hypothetical constant F2.8" would weigh more, but at least it would help justify the extremely high price that Leica is charging for this camera! As for your example of the Samsung 85/1.8 for NX, it sounds pretty ridiculous and pointless to use an f/1.8 lens as an indicator of what an f/2.8 lens' size would be. Heck, it doesn't even have to be a constant f/2.8. Even a constant f/3.5 or f/4 zoom would be a heck of a lot better than the slow f/3.5-6.4 variable aperture that Leica is offering. To offer such a slow lens on a camera with such a high price is kind of an insult, and doesn't make Leica's lens engineers look very good. And what's even sillier is to offer such a slow lens, but not offer any image stabilization (in-lens, or sensor stabilization). For the price they are asking, Leica should have at least offered a constant aperture zoom, or stabilization, or lens interchangeability.
@HowaboutRAW - "Good Leica lenses are better at colour than even good Sigma lenses."
We live in the age of digital imaging where small differences in colour that different lenses produce can easily be rectified or nullified by simply applying a color profile or color calibration to your image in post-processing. Plus, you can always adjust color to taste in post-processing as well. That's just how it is in today's digital world.
Lens color was a more significant issue back in the days of film, when we did little or no post-processing of our image. Back then, what the lens produced on film is what you got. These days, that's merely just the beginning, and the entire image, from color to contrast to chromatic aberration to lens distortion and even to sharpness, are all malleable and adjustable to some degree. That's not to say that we should just use crummy lenses. Good lenses stil matter. However, post processing does render minor differences in lens color rather moot.
Surviving in the digital 21st century for a 100 yr old company is tough. In the old days, mechanical things were expected to last almost forever, thus Leica cameras, Rolex watches, Parker pens, Remington typewriters etc. Now, they get obsolete in 2-3 yrs. Can Leica change to suit the times?
1) The biggest PR mistake Leica made recently, calling an "X" a mini-M
2) Underestimating core customers' expectation.
3) Arrogant
As a photographer I would expect the Mini-M to be:
1) A compact APS-C sensor camera similar in size to the "X2" and has the features of the Olympus E-P5
2) An interchangeable APS-C kit lens on M mount with f/4.0 constant aperture
3) Why M mount? - user must have option to use M lenses
4) Why interchangeable lens mount? - so user can upgrade body and keep the lens for future use
Currently, that's what Fuji is doing. But the XE-1 has a lot of room for improvement. The built quality is not top notch yet.
Leica just have to do better. I believe they can.
This camera is not designed for the UK market. We simply do not have enough light in this country. If you live in Africa, India, Florida/LA then 6.3 would be absolutely fine but in dank grey dreary northern europe (including most of Germany), forget it.
Unless Leica were intending it to be used as a 'fair weather camera'.
Are you a potential buyer of this camera?
Are you concerned of negative piercing glares when you wear this around your neck in public?
Then here is the solution:
Put black electrical tape over the the red dot.
Instantly... the camera becomes a $99.95 Walmart fodder!
...then you are safe to go about your business of taking those billion dollar pictures.
I think it was the anticipation fuelled by Leica itself that has led many to criticise and be disappointed.
The body looks like the old film MD, and as the mini has the ability to take an EVF, disappointingly of low resolution, I believe Leica missed a trick here, and could have followed the practice they followed with the film M3. To cater for those who couldn't stretch to this, Leica brought out the cheaper M2. followed by the even cheaper M1.
With an EVF, they could have kept the M mount and lenses and a full frame sensor. Sure it wouldn't satisfy those who believe Leica is overpriced anyway, but it could have been so much better than what we see now.
I use Leica film cameras, but all the same I'm disappointed that Leica hasn't produced anything likely to tempt me to get this.
It may be the first compact to have a fixed lens and APS-C sensor, but APS-C and fixed lens honours go to Sony in 2005 with their R1.
I am sure Fritz, Carl and Hans must be mad right now in Germany. This is worse that the end of WW II....however at that time you could be proud of your Leica...
Poor people are so funny when they are angry!
700+ scornful comments from people who can't even choose the right parents.
Maybe you are used to spit on poor people.
Maybe you enjoy it.
Your satisfaction is short-lived, it exposes an ugly side and makes good people flee you.
Insulting the poor ?
Very immature ...
In any event you did not want to see the many comments by obviously rich people reading theses pages because they were interested in buying. Leica owners and lovers writing they felt insulted by this shabby offer.
Obviously your native language is not English. It was a joke.
Poe's law applies.
Leica's current demographic doesn't care what the price is. They are not on the same part of the demand curve as the rest of us.
I don't think about the price of a can of soda, if I'm thirsty I'll just buy one without worrying about value for money. For Leica's target market $3000 is like 50c to me. Not worth even thinking about. There are hundreds of thousands of people who are in that market. Just not you or me.
LOL....not sure most will appreciate this as anger over important matters such as cameras can have a dulling effect on life's better moments.
to say one positive thing, for street photo, these apertures might just be good enough.
True. This camera is quite capable of the "ƒ/8 and be there" slogan. Just not sue of the AF speed capabilities. It will be interesting to see how the life of this camera develops (pun intended)
I was really hoping for something along the lines of Panasonic LC1/Digilux 2.
That would be something. That camera is very dated now.
Since most people here seems baffled by Leica, saying they didn't market well their new product etc. Saying that Leica missed the point and nobody here will want one over an already owned NEX7, Fuji X100, or OM-D...etc. I think people here should wake up and understand that this camera was never designed for them.
You are simply not Leica customer target. That doesn't mean you cannot understand the "benefits" of the "counterparts" of owning this camera. That just means you are not the target audience so just move on because this was not design for YOU. You are not part of it and most people commenting here just doesn't have the cash for it anyway.
I don't understand why people stay here waiting for Leica to release a X100s-Leica-something for half the price that would sell like hot cakes like they say. That will never happen. Leica is Leica and demand premium price and that's it. They will never sell cheap.
You don't ask bikers why they chose Harley Davidson over a Kawasaki.
No, you are wrong. I have the money (and many do) and I am willing to pay for a "Mini M" if it has a, say, 18-35mm f/2.0 lens and other refinements.
Leica owners must be proud of what they have. It must be photographically superior and a gem to hold.
very smart of you
so, leica don't have a tradition and responsibility to keep it?
Will Leica end up like Rollei then?
You red the press text ? - they didn't wrote that this is for rich people who have no idea about photography.
The Leica customer I know buy the famous Leica f1.4 lenses and f2.
and people have the right to blame Leica for using there heritage for selling that average product for ridiculous price.
so far,...have a smart day
About Leica History
You are right, starwolfy,
there are people who can sell canned leftovers,
corporations specialising to produce it,
institutions promoting it
and proud buyers.
Tate Collection, Artist's Sh*t by Piero Manzoni
Also, naked emperors tend to attract raillery.
In this case however,
question is,
would Leica benefit from a Recall ?
For what this camera could have been see
the stunning 1960s design new Olympus Pen P5
with 17mm f1.8 pancake lens. Classic quality.
With the sensor from OMD-EM5, improved.
Contrary to Canon, Nikon and Leica,
they don't fear continually improving their top models,
making the best without crippling popular offerings.
white shadow--
That "18-35mm f/2.0 lens" would be mighty heavy, better to offer it in a future hypothetical interchangeable Leica X.
This doesn't irk me; I would enjoy owning the camera. But when I see the prices for the V-LUX 30 and V-LUX 40 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look how disappointed customers are:
After trusting the old brand, expecting Leica quality,
and getting cheap cameras wrapped in hype:
Leica V-LUX 30 really a re-branded Panasonic Lumix ZS-10
"Did not perform in low light...terribly grainy.
Facial features often blotchy."
"After one year without being dropped or mishandled, the camera suddenly gave me a system failure warning and shut down. I sent it to Leica who said it would be too expensive to fix. So that was the end of that camera."
I read through every single comment and not a single good thing was said about this camera unless it was sarcastic. I really would like to hear just one positive thing about it.
I tried to find something and I simply couldn't. Even their claim of it being the first "compact camera with an APS-C sensor and fixed zoom lens" is bogus. Why would you want a fixed lens compact camera when Sony and Canon make an interchangeable lens APS-C camera that is the same size and costs so much less?
This camera will surely be capable of producing nice photos within the performance range of the lens and body. If someone doesn't mind the size and has the money, it will work for them for what it can do.
Yes it has pretty limited design specs compared to a lot of other cameras that are out there which cost much less. No IS, a largish slow fixed lens, an old EVF, etc. etc. And it does not bring anything new to the world of photography. Well when was the last time Leica was innovative?
I think there would have been far fewer critics if they had simply released the camera without all of the build up, marketing fluff and outright lies.
Some marketing genius in Leica is really trying to apply some of his knowledge he learned at college thinking that this will give him a promotion.
The product development genius is trying to get a promotion too.
Sure, this camera will be able to take some reasonable photo but one might as well use the Canon G1X which many descibe it as a brick. At least, it is flat enough to slip into a cargo pants' pocket, has image stabilisation, a flip screen and cost about USD600.
In years to come this episode will make a very interesting case study for the Institute of Marketing, UK and the Cransfield Business School, UK.
Classic material for future students.
Looks like Leica didn't want Hasselblad to get all of the negative publicity.
no viewfinder no party
Bizarre product management at Leica. This offering has clearly baffled most of us. It neither enhances the Leica brand, nor does it offer something the market needs. I was expecting to see a fixed lens, full frame compact, like the Sony RX1.
If you want a Leica APS-C, then a second hand M8 is beginning to look like good value. Alternatively, the Sony NEX 6 or Fuji XE-1 with their respective kit lenses seems more sensible. Heck, even my Sony NEX F3 offers more than this, with its articulating screen and stabilised lens.
Genius, Leica, genius.
Making a full frame fixed lens "compact" like the Sony RX1 would be the last thing Leica would want to do. That would be the direct competitor to their own "M". Oh no! no!.!!!!.
But I wouldn't mind and I think many would be happy if they would just make a compact mini-M with an APS-C sensor and an 18-35 f/2.0 lens. If Sigma, a relatively young lens company, can make an APS-C 18-35mm f1.8 lens, Leica with all their years of expertise should have no problem with it.
Leica is about quality lenses, fast lens, not making the slowest zoom lens ever.
Oskar must be really turning in his grave. Sad.!!!..Very sad.!!
On the contrarian note:
at least in bright sunlight the images from this camera will have a 29 times higher chance to have proper framing and perspective and enough DoF do fit what is interesting in the picture, unlike all those fixed FL fixed lens Nikon As and Fuji X100s shot wide open just for the heck of it.
<runs for cover from the fanboys>
sample images / first report
The fun is seeing Leica nuts trying to DEFEND this disappointing camera.
For example, a God, I'm sorry, Mod, over on the Leica forum, when confronted with the Fuji 18-55 f2.8 - f4 with image stabilization, made the following attempt at defense:
"I never said Leica couldn't make one. Just that it would be much larger and heavier. The Fuji lens weighs 300g+ and is 65 x 70mm in size. The X Vario weighs 679g (in total, w/lens) and measures 133 x 73 x 95mm. That IS also consumes power, requiring a bigger (and therefore heavier) battery.
So everyone bitching about the lens speed on the X Vario now would be bitching about the size and weight of it instead."
Several people, myself included, pointed out to the poor man that the Fuji X-E1 (a closer point of comparison than the Fuji X-Pro since like the Vario it doesn't have an optical viewfinder) PLUS the above lens, PLUS the supposedly "bigger, heavier battery") weighs a total of 660 grams, 29g LESS than the Vario.
Truly pathetic.
People who buy Leica don't make these comparisons. If they did, the brand would have disappeared when the Canon 7s and Nikon SP were introduced.
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Good grief! No viewfinder, a slow limited range zoom lens? Another vanity camera for well-heeled snap-shooters to photograph sunsets and birthday parties. No serious photographer will use this wimpy spec'ed camera no matter how cute it is. It is the camera equivalent to the stupidly expensive watches that not only tell you the time, like every ten dollar watch out there, but tell everyone how much money you have, and how gullible you are.
Birthday parties, indoors or in the evening:
they will be very disappointed with the blurred, noisy results.
If you buy an expensive watch (Patek, Vacheron, Lange, etc.) you're buying a handcrafted piece of art. This also applied to Leica's film cameras.
However, it doesn't apply to digital cameras same as it doesn't apply to quartz watches, because the whole job is done by mass produced electronics that's usually not even made by Leica.
PS: To be honest, if Leica produced a camera at least as good as Fuji X series or other competitors, I'd most likely pay the higher price just to have something extraordinary.
But there's no way I'm spending more money to get a worse camera, it's like spending £2000 for a Vertu phone which can't do much more than a 5 years old Nokia while you can buy a £500 smartphone which can do everything you can possibly imagine.
What I have learned from these comments is that there have been approximately 57 ways of attempting to be sarcastic about the red dot and f6.4, none of which are particularly original or even funny. Come on guys, surely you can do better!
I agree meland but this is the inherent nature of this forum.
That aside, the camera does look like a dinosaur when compared to the Olympus P5 which is due out this week and has WAY more going for it in every respect. So the real issue with the Leica is the ridiculous price for a pedestrian feature set. Which in itself suggests they're trading off past glories.
@meland.... not sure what you expected but you appear to be a major apologist and defender of Leica and their latest offering. Sure some will buy it but many expected much more from Leica when they teased this camera as being a Mini M. It is not even remotely related to an M other than being offered by Leica. The lens is the worst feature of the camera. The heart and soul of Leica is their glass and this offering is lacking in both heart & soul.
Jim does have a point about the lens. But there was no way in the world Leica was going to cannibalize their lineup by offering a less expensive M. This X Vario allows them to offer a camera that has no danger of hurting M sales. On the other hand, you'd think they'd sell more lenses with more M-mount bodies on the market.
Jim - Apologist and defender of Leica? You could not be further from the truth. Sure I had an M6 once (and quite liked it as a piece of engineering, although it never really suited my style of photography).
I just look at the pathetically low standard of whining and whingeing and think "Get a life, please!"
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See DJI's 'AeroScope' drone-tracking technology in action. This is the system that DJI says can help law enforcement and airport (among others) track and identify rogue drones.
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Vimeo has just added support for 8K HDR 10-bit content, making it possible to show up to 75% of the colors the human eye can perceive vs the usual 35%. Take THAT YouTube.
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Read the story behind this gorgeous wedding photo captured at Trolltunga in Norway by husband and wife duo Priscila Valentina Photography. The 14 hour hike in the rain that preceded this shot was TOTALLY worth it.
Go behind the scenes with filmmaker Nick Arcivos, who recently created a beautiful cinematic short film in Paris using only the iPhone X, a couple of gimbals, and a few lights. The results are very impressive.
A Bay Area startup offering a pay-by-the-photo camera service cleverly addresses the pain points photographers experience when they pick up their first DSLR. But can it survive the smartphone?
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By combining his skills as a time-lapse filmmaker and an engineer, Julian Tryba created this out-of-this-world creative 'layer-lapse' of New York City that alternates between night and day in time with the music.
Canon Japan's new lineup of novelty camera-themed gifts was just revealed online, including a lens mug and lens thermos, two retro camera-themed USB drives, and a picnic mat.
The Profoto A1 most certainly isn't for everyone [...] But for those who are used to using the Profoto systems, and want something that pairs seamlessly with the strobes you already have, there is no better companion.
Fujifilm has asked a US district court to clear it of any wrongdoing, after allegedly being threatened with trademark litigation by Polaroid.
While a couple of our reviewers are out testing the Sony a7R III in Arizona, back in Seattle we slapped the camera in front of our studio scene to get a close look at its image quality. See how it stacks up against the competition.
We're counting down our top 10 most popular sample galleries of 2017, and the #8 ranking belongs to the Nikon D7500.
B+W has announced a new aluminum filter holder that offers three slots so users can use multiple filters at the same time. The holder goes with the 2mm thick 100mm square filters it launched earlier this year.
8K video is coming a lot faster than you think, and Blackmagic is ready for it. Meet the DeckLink 8K Pro, a new high performance PCI-E capture and playback card built to handle 'real time high resolution 8K workflows.'
"Glass is everywhere in photography. From Eugène Atget's reflective vitrines to Lee Friedlander's sly self-portraiture, photographers have long been in thrall to the visual complications glass can inject into a composition."
Former Apple Aperture lead developer Nik Bhatt has designed an iOS app called RAW Power that lets you edit raw photos from your professional camera using your phone and tablet.... color us intrigued.
Advertising photographer Blair Bunting got his hands on the new Microsoft Surface Book 2, and it blew him away. Bye bye MacBook Pro...
The OnePlus 5T retains many of the 5's features and specs, but comes with an edge-to-edge display and a dual-camera that is optimized for low light.
Sony's recently announced IMX461 backside illuminated medium format sensor will bring 100MP resolution and almost 2x the speed to the next-gen Fuji GFX and Hasselblad X1D.
With the 'Rent a Hasselblad' camera equipment renting program, the camera makers is aiming to give enthusiast and professional photographers easier access to its medium-format photography products.
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My question is about a product called 6-OXO. the medical ingredient is (androsten 3,6,17-trione). I need to know if this could cause me to fail a steroid test. The company claims it is an aromatase inhibitor and it increases natural testosterone. Is extra testosterone going to cause a failed drug test? or could this androsten show up as a steroid? Any insight would be great thanks!
if its a normal drug test you should be fine...i dont think steroids show up in a normal drug test but i could be wrong. it shouldnt be in your system for more than a few weeks anyways...
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I flinched when I heard on the radio last night that George Osborne was "relaxed" about the parliamentary standards commissioner's investigation into allegations that he claimed for a mortgage worth £450,000, which he used to fund a house that cost £445,000. Wrong adjective, I murmured. It sounds too dismissive of a serious process.
All the same, I suspect the shadow chancellor is right to insist he's done nothing wrong and was therefore pleased that the Guardian's news team made little of it in print this morning – though our website account of Osborne's response to the investigation is longer.
Not all the newspapers take such a level-headed view. Here's the Times's page lead on the Osborne story and here's the Daily Mail's version, which gets greater prominence than the police investigation into Lord Hanningfield's £100,000 worth of overnight allowance claims.
The story provides a good example of my beef with media colleagues, which gets me into trouble both with some of them, with Guido Fawkes and the blog posters. I doubt if anyone involved expects Osborne to get into serious trouble here, but it's good sport ("They're all as bad as each other, aren't they?") and makes easy copy.
The standards watchdog, John Lyon, has just rejected allegations of house "flipping" for profit against Alistair Darling. They were luridly trooped around the TV studios by my old Daily Mail comrade Peter Oborne, whose sense of moral rectitude leaves him little room for doubt.
The charges were routinely repeated in the Mail, which carries a whole paragraph on Lyon's ruling, tucked inside today's Osborne story. Has much harm been done to the chancellor's reputation? Not as much as might have been the case if Darling were less of a sober, even puritanical figure. The idea of him on the make was always pretty suspect.
As a still-too-cocky (though he's getting better) youth of 38, the scion of both wealth and privilege with a raffish Bullingdon Club background, Osborne is more vulnerable, not least to tabloid envy. Watch out, George.
Chances are that the chancellor-in-waiting, whose plans to avoid a Blair-Brown-style feud in Downing St are detailed elsewhere in today's Guardian, will get the all-clear from Lyon.
As the dust starts to settle on the MPs' expenses affair, it is clear that Labour has been most damaged because Labour voters expect better of Labour politicians. They also tend to have less money, and that matters.
One reason why many MPs felt hard done by and treated expenses as the allowances they once were is that the kind of people they brush up against – businessmen, top civil servants and quangocrats, bankers, local authority officials, even some of the hacks – are much better paid.
Quite why is not always clear. And what fun Fred Goodwin's tax-deductible expenses would be.
But the dividing line isn't confined to metropolitan elites. I suspect it exists at all levels of society and separates those on fixed salaries and PAYE tax regimes from the self-employed, the entrepreneurial, the creative, and the very rich, whose financial arrangements are more erratic, often more insecure.
As a result their judgments may be more tolerant unless HMRC has dropped by lately. They're all more used to juggling money, as Osborne did with his second home. I'm thinking plumbers here as well as barristers. Have I got this right or do plumbers think "I'd never get away with that"? I'd be interested to know.
A friend attending a family wedding in a smart bit of Yorkshire the other weekend described how the bride's uncle had made a speech about how he and his brother left school at 15 and worked together off the back of a barrow. "Now he's rich and I'm still poor," he joked, though apparently it's true.
I doubt if those sort of people will spend much time worrying about Osborne's financial affairs. They may even wonder why a bloke who could afford to spend all summer on a yacht off Corfu is bothering to sweat over the nation's finances for much of it instead.
For the rest of us on the hamster wheel it's not like that. Some of those MPs were claiming serious money to which they weren't entitled. Fairness matters. That's right too.
Which is why wealthy Osborne shouldn't be too "relaxed". The Tories haven't won yet and their poll figures aren't as high as they should be.
As an old Labour sweat put it mid-week, not unkindly: "Cameron and Osborne just look a bit too well-fed."


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Mystical Bootcamp is a ritual performance journey into the vortex. Inspired by shamanism, Mary Wigman, magic, animals, the Occupy movement, Kazuo Ohno, calisthenics of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Yvonne Rainer, and biodynamic agriculture, we investigate how creating a performance can be an act of healing. We invite the audience into a shamanistic complex in which audience, performers, and performance space together create a field of magic. Sara will lecture on biodynamic preparations. Aurora will conduct a dance of American nationalism. Bryan will become a crow and Charlie will create sonic vibrations. With dance, masks, and ritual drama as our tools, we invoke a transformation.
Under the Roses is an image-based performance, which seeks to exist in a place unknown to itself, while simultaneously laying itself bare. Drawing upon the stylized movement vocabularies of ballet, yoga, and professional athletics, the piece is performed by a body unformed by the rigorous training these disciplines require. Thus the work becomes weighted by desire, without release of sublimation. It is a hand outstretched. Though layered with text, both original and appropriated, the work strives to exist without previously mediated notions of language and experience. These contradictions, or perhaps impossibilities are where the work resides. Seeking to encounter something outside itself, moving with an aching slowness and an urgency which borders on terrifying, Under the Roses reaches for transcendence, lifting its heft with delicacy and force.
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OSHA, Bono and unspent money
I read a news item not long ago that reported the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) left about $6.4 million unspent in funds provided to the agency as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Actthe "stimulus" that was adopted in 2009. A few observations:
- Wow. A federal agency actually left money unspent.
- And of all agencies to do it, it was OSHA. Who'd have thought?
- It turns out OSHA still manages to spend more money, conduct more inspections and collect more fines than it did the previous year, so we don't need to lose sleep worrying it was adversely affected by the unspent funds.
- How was the money provided to OSHA supposed to "stimulate" anything? Maybe the idea was more inspections would lead to more employer stress, which would lead to more doctor visits, which would help create jobs in the health care industry.
It is arguably more astonishing that such an astute thought could come from an entertainer than to find unspent money at OSHA. Perhaps Bono has the ear of the secretary of labor.
There is, of course, a more serious point to be made. Real, sustainable job creation comes from the private sector, not by providing stimulus money to federal regulatory agencies or, for that matter, by simply having the government spend more money. Jobs are created when owners and investors can upgrade or expand. Bono gets that. Some legislators get that (but not enough).
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During mastermind Japan's runway show at Versus Tokyo, they created as mall run of these rather cute Skull Kid plush toys that were distributed to lucky people in attendance at the event. Well, some were produces for retail and here is a look at them. Zozo has a small run of them, so head over there if you would like to pick one up.
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OCHRE BEACH, Manitoba, May 13 (UPI) -- A cleanup was under way in Ochre Beach, Manitoba, Monday where wind-fueled waves sent a wall of lake ice onto shoreline homes and cottages, officials said.
Thirteen cottages were destroyed, and 27 others damaged Friday by ice pushed ashore by waves generated by winds of up to 90 kilometers (55 miles) per hour, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday.
Ochre Beach is about 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Winnipeg.
Homeowners assessed damage to their property, and looked at ice piled in driveways and on roofs, the CBC noted.
Stan Struthers, member of the legislative assembly for the nearby city of Dauphin, visited Ochre Beach Saturday and said it was "a little early right now to say what kind of" emergency aid would be available, "but right now we have to sort through the kind of mess that's here."
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia {AP} In a city under NATO attack, a small event can assume great meaning. Take, for instance, the reopening of a McDonald's outlet vandalized last month by an anti-American mob.
Or the fact that tens of thousands ignored heavy rain and chilly winds not to mention a wartime atmosphere to cheer runners in the annual Belgrade marathon and an accompanying three-mile fun run.
"Let us show them (NATO) that our spirit is high and we are not afraid of their bombs," a well-dressed elderly woman said, as she cheered the runners on by waving her umbrella in the air.
In a city struggling to adjust to the NATO air campaign and the resulting miseries nights in air raid shelters, gasoline shortages and fraying nerves both events brought hopes of a return to normal life.
"The main thing is that we are open," McDonald's employee Snezana Atanazovic said.
Dozens of Belgraders lined up for their first fix of fries, shakes and burgers since the seven McDonald's outlets closed in Belgrade on March 26.
That was two days after the first NATO missile struck Yugoslavia, releasing a torrent of anti-U.S. feeling in a city of American fast-food addicts.
A mob targeted the McDonald's restaurant on downtown Terazije Square, along with the nearby American Cultural Center and the U.S. Embassy a few miles away, breaking windows and smearing outer walls with hateful slogans.
The center and embassy remain closed. But along with two other outlets, the Terazije McDonald's opened Saturday despite signs that not all was right: windows boarded over; a metal detector at the entrance; police nearby.
Belgraders came to eat or to stare.
"I went in just to see if it was open, because I didn't believe it when I walked past," said Radomir Kratovac. "I'm pleased but also surprised because a lot of people in Belgrade remain resentful of America."
Kratovac, 35, and others interpreted the reopening as a hopeful sign. "It means that normal life is returning somehow."
Expressing the same sentiments in more elemental terms, Aleksandar Simeonovic, 4, clamped down on a double-decker burger that half hid his face, rolling his eyes when asked if it tasted good.
"Mmm, I missed this," he said, coming up for air.
His grandmother, Jelena Simeonovic, 53, said not all Belgraders shared the sentiments of the mostly youthful mob that wrecked the restaurant.
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I received an email from the Pet Extraordinarium today (an online UK pet supply outlet who sent me the most marvelous sleeping mats for Fiver) and there's apparently this thing called Fireworks Night there on the 5th of November. The mail was an advertisement for their version of Rescue Remedy, and it included an admonition to keep pets indoors during the celebration, etc...which-since it falls on Wednesday this year-is "expected to last for ten days"???
Do you guys really light fireworks for ten days in November? 0_o Wow, that sounds like one heck of a holiday! What's it for? Could a UK member elaborate on this? It's not Guy Fawkes night, is it? I thought that had already passed?


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I am starting this petition in the hope that it will help end a great injustice that is taking place against the children in Denver. I had always believed that the Denver Department of Human Services Child Support Enforcement Unit was in place to help ensure that every child who is owed support will get it. That seems to not be the case. Countless parents are being made to struggle to fight a system that seems to be tilted to helping the non-custodial parent from paying their court ordered support. Parents like myself are often told they can't locate the absent parent so we do the leg work to get addresses phone numbers turn them in and nothing seems to happen.
In my case my son's father has always been in arrears he currently owes over 15,000.00 dollar in back support to me. He is married has been for 14years and is currently running a tattoo shop out of his home the same home he has lived in since my son 5 years old. He runs Facebook and twitter pages for his business Northstar Ink where he daily post pictures of the tattoo's he does for people and recruits future business. He has even posted pictures of new equipment he buys for the shop. When I call my child support technician to ask why no contempt has been filed in my case because his last payment of support was Feb 6, 2013 in the amount of 20.00 dollars nowhere near the 187.00 dollars he is under order to pay I am told they can't locate him.
So I then go around searching to verify his current address and phone numbers. Once done I call in and are then told that because he is receiving food stamps that CSE wont file a contempt against him. I have been told that if I chose to file a contempt myself then CSE will attach itself to my contempt case. It seems completely unjust that a person can own and operate a business in Colorado and still not be made to pay child support for their children. I asked my technician "so you are telling me a person can own and run a business in Denver and not pay their child support" his answers was yes. For 16 years I have battled within the court to enforce my right to receive my child support. Michael Lee Ramirez my son's father has been found in contempt 3 times and each time I had to ask for a contempt to be filed I had to locate him in order for CSE to serve him. I am disabled with cerebral palsy living off social security, meanwhile this man his wife and children live in section 8 housing while he works for cash in their home. The system is supposed to be in place to help people not to be used as a shield to hide behind no parent should be allowed to pick and choose which children they will support and which ones they don't want to. The procedures CSE follows needs to be fixed they should be actively trying to locate absent parents filing contempt cases without waiting for the custodial parent to ask them to.
It is my hope that the law makers in Colorado will change the law so that in order to hold or renew a valid business license in Colorado a parent must pay their child support. Because withholding a driver's fishing or hunting license isn't enough. For the countless parents who are facing this struggle and the children who aren't getting what is rightfully their financial support from these business owners Please do something to balance the scale because every day without that financial support is a day the children go without the basics they need to survive.
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It will help change the law in Colorado so that in order to hold or renew a business license the business owner must pay there child support or forfeit their license. It will help to prevent...
It will help change the law in Colorado so that in order to hold or renew a business license the business owner must pay there child support or forfeit their license. It will help to prevent business owners from falling through the cracks of current Child Support Enforcement Standards. At this time they are allowed to own businesses make money and not pay their. You must have 6 months of non payment before child support will file a contempt and the custodial parent in most cases has to ask for a contempt and help locate the parent.


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Here are some literary events to pencil in your calendar. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please post your event at least one week prior to its date.
Meet prolific thriller writter Harlan Coben at the launch party for his new novel, Six Years. See him on Tuesday, March 19th at Barnes & Noble (82nd Street & Broadway) starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)
The 6-year anniversary celebration of the Mixer Reading & Mixer Series will take place at Cake Shop. Join the fun on Wednesday, March 20th starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)
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Will Cohen of Red Hat organized this BOF.
Tim Bird and Matthieu Desnoyers also presented.
Tim Bird's presentation: Media:OLS2006-Tracing-BOF.ppt
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(A) Every appointing authority shall require each of its appointed peace officers and troopers to complete up to twenty-four hours of continuing professional training each calendar year.
(B) The commission shall set the required minimum number of hours based upon the availability of funding for reimbursement. If no funding is available for reimbursement, continuing professional training shall not be required for the year(s) in which sufficient funding was not available.
(C) Newly certified peace officers shall be exempt from continuing professional training requirements for the calendar year in which the peace officer completed peace officer basic training. Newly commissioned troopers shall be exempt from continuing professional training requirements for the calendar year in which the trooper completed the highway patrol cadet training program. Effective the date of this amendment, regardless of when a peace officer receives a new appointment, they are required to complete continuing professional training for that calendar year.
(D) Sheriffs completing training pursuant to division (B) of section 109.80 and division (E) of section 311.01 of the Revised Code may receive credit towards the peace officer continuing professional training requirement as long as the training satisfies the requirements of this chapter.
(E) Officers completing statutorily mandated training may receive credit towards the peace officer continuing professional training requirement for the calendar year the training is taken as long as the training satisfies the requirements of this chapter.
(F) The executive director may extend the time for completion of the continuing professional training requirements upon written request from the appointing authority. Such request shall contain an explanation of the emergency circumstances which created the need for the extension. The application shall set forth the name of the peace officer or trooper for whom the extension is requested, the emergency circumstances, including documentation, for which the extension is requested, and the date on which the request was submitted to the commission. Factors which may be considered in granting or denying such requests include, but are not limited to, serious illness of the individual or an immediate family member, prolonged military service, or an unexpected shortage of manpower within the appointing agency. Based upon the emergency circumstances in any given case, the executive director may extend the required completion date. Extensions shall be for ninety days, absent a finding by the executive director that special circumstances exist for a longer extension.
(G) The executive director shall either grant or deny the request for extension within thirty days after the date on which the request was received by the commission. The executive director shall send written notice of the decision to the appointing authority.
(H) In the event a peace officer or trooper is appointed by more than one agency as of July first of the calendar year for which training is being reported, the agency responsible for documenting the training and eligibility for reimbursement shall be determined by order of priority as follows:
(1) full-time,
(2) part-time, and
(3) other. In the event a peace officer or trooper holds appointments of equal priority, the agency by which the peace officer or trooper was first appointed shall be the agency responsible for documenting the training and eligibility.
(I) Continuing professional training does not include annual in-service firearms re-qualification pursuant to section 109.801 of the Revised Code.
Cite as Ohio Admin. Code 109:2-18-02
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 10/16/2019
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 109.802
Rule Amplifies: 109.73, 109.75, 109.802 , 109.803
Prior Effective Dates: 10/12/2007, 10/16/09


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text: Shooting has been completed for Ankusam, which is inspired by the Dr. Rajasekhar starrer of the same name. Directed and produced by Vijaykumar Reddy under Pakhya Celluloids banner, the movie stars Srinath, Ritesh, Sangeetha, Keerti Chawla and Anita. Producer-director Vijaykumar Reddy said, We are making the film more attractive than the earlier Ankusam in which Dr Rajasekhar was the hero. We just completed the shooting and launched the dubbing activities. It is the story of a mafia gang which runs brothels with the help of some corrupt police officials. Six girls, after severe physical harassment, are dumped in the drains. Of them, three die; three survive and get admitted to hospital in a critical condition. Based on the girls statements and the clues, the entire mafia gang gets caught. How the police trace the mafia forms the rest of the story. Anita, Uttej, Sriman, Jayaprakash Reddy, Rallapalli, Mallikarjuna Rao, Anandraj, Tirupati Prakash, Sriman, Vijayababu, Sakuntala and others are in the supporting cast. Sahiti has written the lyrics which are set to Maria Manohars music. Camera has been handled by Abu Shah and Amar. M. Shankar and K. Itrish have done some creative editing, while V. Vijaykumar Reddy has handled the story, dialogues, screenplay, production and direction.


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Patent Law - Provisional Application, an effective measure to secure right for patent application under transition to first-to-file system.
As US patent law adopts first-to-file principle, provisional applications are expected to be used more frequently. A provisional application does not substitute a non-provisional application, and a non-provisional application must be filed within a specified period (1 year) from the filing date of a provisional application. However, a provisional application has may advantages.
The filing date of a provisional application is accepted as an official US filing date. That is, a patent application filing date is acknowledged whether an application is provisional or nonprovisional. Thus it prevents losing patent right due to delayed filing under a first-to-file system. A provisional application requires much less cost and time than a non-provisional application.
Preparation of a provisional application is fairly easy. For example, it is possible with only sketch and brief explanation of an invention. The explanation may be in any language. While filing a non-provisional application requires drafting detailed description and claims for the invention, and accompanying documents including inventor's declaration, filing a provisional application is immediately possible when a technical explanation of an invention is prepared.
A provisional application permits authorized use of "Patent Pending" notice. The notice notifies competitors that the invention implemented in the product is under procedure to obtain patent, and thus becomes important means to prevent copying and to secure competitive advantage.
The applicant has a period to assess the invention's potential and to attract investment until a non-provisional application needs to be filed. Because the patent application filing date is secured as the date of filing the provisional application, the inventor can contact investors without concern for the invention being stolen.The inventor can decide whether to commit much higher cost for non-provisional application during the 1 year period.
Continuity of technical contents is required when a non-provisional application is filed based on a provisional application. Therefore, technical contents must be explained fully though certain legal formalities for a non-provisional application are not required. A provisional application is a separate procedure to obtain above-explained advantages easily in early stage, and it is not examined by PTO examiner. In order to obtain a patent, a non-provisional application must be filed within 1 year from the filing date of a provisional application, and examined.
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Wurlitzer Industrial Park seeks NCIDA tax break
WHEATFIELD – The owner of the Wurlitzer Industrial Park in North Tonawanda asked for a 15-year property tax break from the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency on Wednesday.
Thomas E. Austen said he plans a $1.24 million renovation of the second and third floors of the 750,000-square-foot complex at 908 Niagara Falls Blvd. The site was originally Wurlitzer's organ factory.
As an industrial park, about 233,000 square feet are in use by 43 tenants who employ a total of 275 people, Austen said. The renovation and interior demolition, which could cover as much as 130,000 square feet, is meant to attract more office and light manufacturing tenants.
"It's an old building. The first building was in 1892 and they kept building through 1950. It's concrete walls, concrete floors," Austen said.
He told the IDA that 18 new jobs would be created in the renovated space, but he called that "a very conservative estimate."
The IDA staff calculated that the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, arrangement would save Austen $423,668 over the next 15 years.
He won't have to pay sales tax on building materials or equipment for the renovated area, but most of the savings – $373,268 at current tax rates – is in property taxes.
"The existing assessed valuation of the building will not be evaded," IDA counsel Mark J. Gabriele said. "It will only be on [the value of] the additional improvements."
The IDA board will vote on the proposal at its May 14 meeting.
In another matter Wednesday, the IDA received its annual outside audit, which showed that the agency lost $459,375 on its operations in 2013, as revenue plunged by 57 percent.
The agency closed on 12 projects last year and collected about $900,000 in fees, but that was only about half the value of the nine projects it handled in 2012, according to the audit by the Lumsden & McCormick accounting firm.
The IDA also received a $400,000 grant in 2012 for use in lending money to businesses, a grant which was not repeated in 2013 and thus took a toll on the balance sheet.
"It was a clean report. It wasn't one of our most successful years," IDA Chairman Henry M. Sloma said.
For the first quarter of this year, the IDA was in the red by $192,585.
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After watching the heated rivalry between the Captains and Old Dominion University on Friday night, one can only wonder why this team is not school sponsored.
Captains' players and fans alike wait all season for this particular matchup. "Ever since I got recruited to play for CNU all I heard about was the intense rivalry between CNU and ODU," said sophomore Brandon Finch.
Inside of Hampton Roads IcePlex, Christopher Newport University fans packed the stadium for what turned out to be an exciting display of hockey.
The First Period
The game started with a seeming lack of energy on either side. Twenty seconds into the game the Captains were called for having too many men on the ice, which resulted in a penalty. ODU scored on the shorthanded opportunity with 36 seconds left in the power play.
Freshman Patrick Sheehan leveled an ODU player attempting to break out of his defensive zone, setting the stage for what turned out to be the Captains most physical game of their season.
Captains drew a holding penalty with less than 13 minutes left in the period. One minute into the CNU power play, ODU was penalized again for another hooking call, giving the Captains a five on three opportunity. The Captains failed to score but drew another penalty after a quick scuffle in front of the ODU net. ODU was given a five minute misconduct, sending the player off to the locker room for the rest of the game.
Freshman Brad Kostrzebski passed to a wide-open sophomore Shane Kehl who ripped a slap shot straight into the top right corner, tying the game up with less than 10 minutes left in the first period. Sophomore Tyler Bemis was accredited with the secondary assist.
By the end of the first period there were 16 penalties called—six on CNU and ten on ODU–and two ODU players were ejected. CNU would outshoot their opponent 16-5 by the end of the period.
The Second Period
At the start of the second period the two teams were tied up at one with an overlapping ODU penalty.
Sheehan brought the team and fans alive with a huge hit at mid-ice that left the ODU player slow to recover.
Goalie junior Harrison Jenkins sprinted to the bench for a delayed penalty call, giving CNU the extra skater. Junior Matt Scott rebounded a shot from freshman Kyle Jahn and put the puck in between the legs of the ODU goalie, giving the Captains their first lead of the game and erasing the penalty.
The ODU goalie was relentless in stopping CNU's attempts to gain a two goal advantage. A wide-open Kehl one-timed a pass in the crease, only to get stone-walled by ODU's netminder.
ODU tied up the game at 5:57 into the second period off a strange bounce that went over Goaltender Jenkins shoulder.
The Captains picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone, causing a three on two towards ODU's goal. Bemis passed to Jahn, who set up Sheehan at the doorstep who gave the Captains their third goal of the game.
The onslaught of offensive plays continued, leaving the responsibility entirely on the ODU goaltender. Jahn backhanded a rebound while the goalie was down, but the ODU goaltender somehow managed to glove it out of the air.
Once again ODU tied up the game when the puck ricocheted off the backboards and landed right on the stick of an open ODU player, who put it away with 1:42 left in the second period. Jenkins saved his team from trailing into the third with a beautiful kick save at the end of the period.
Bringing it Home
Nine seconds into the third period, ODU was charged with a hooking call. Sheehan gave the Captains an early lead when he deflected a slap shot from defenseman senior Kenny Zamborsky, making the score 4-3.
Senior Ryan Lafayette would give the Captains a two goal cushion after he rebounded a shot from Brian Capranica.
Kehl took the puck in the neutral zone and skated down the left side, stick handled past ODU's defenseman and put in a beautiful backhander. Bemis would be awarded his fourth assist of the night on Kehl's goal.
Jenkins gave up another goal over his shoulder with less than ten minutes left in regulation, making the score 6-4.
Kehl would respond with his hat trick goal, giving the Captains a strong 7-4 lead over ODU.
Brad Kostrzebski embarrassed ODU's defense as he stick-handled through three players and slipped a shot under the goaltender's pads, giving the Captains their final goal. CNU would go on to finish 8-4 against their division rivals.
The banging on the glass and the cheers from the crowd filled the arena as CNU saluted their fans after another exciting win.
CNU's next home game will be Oct. 19 against Virginia Commonwealth University. Watch the two teams battle in their conference championship game rematch at Hampton Roads IcePlex.


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An hour before taking the podium to meet the media at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, Lovie Smith agreed to a two-year contract extension as Head Coach of the Chicago Bears.
Smith's current contract was set to expire after the 2011 season. He now will stick around through 2013, the same timeline for General Manager Jerry Angelo and Team President Ted Phillips' contracts.
"I feel very comfortable getting three years on my contract, it's plenty of time," Smith told reporters. "Feel comfortable having all of us being connected together as far as the length of my contract. I'm excited, its' exactly what I want."
Smith led the Bears to three NFC North titles including this past season, a "must win" for the coaching staff. The three division titles since 2005 are the second most in the NFC behind the Seattle Seahawks' four.
"In our time here, we've won the championship three times, we've been to the championship game a couple years, our staff knows what they're doing, we have good players, and I like our chances next year," Smith said.
He holds a .563 win percentage with a 63-49 regular season coaching record and .303 in the post season. Lovie Smith has the third most wins in Bears franchise history behind Hall of Famers George Halas and Mike Ditka.
"I think you know how much I love my job," Smith gushed. "Great organization that I've worked with these past seven years."
Smith acknowledges that despite a 26-16 record within the division and a regular season winning record against all three teams in the division, he knows the road to the Super Bowl still goes through Green Bay.
"We have the Super Bowl champion in our division, our biggest rivalry. We have to catch up," he said. "It's as simple as that."
Smith wouldn't give any guarantees like Jets coach Rex Ryan on Thursday, but said, "We finished this past year on a sour note with a loss, but again there's so much excitement we know we have things in place to win it all."
The jovial Smith even joked that his new agent Matthew Smith did a nice job negotiating the extension.
What happened to powerhouse "agent to the coaches" Frank Bauer? "We are still good friends," Smith said, acknowledging the good job Bauer did negotiating his past contracts.
So who is this Matthew Smith who snared the deal for the 3rd winningest coach in Bears franchise history? Lovie Smith's son. A second-year sports law student at Loyola University in Chicago.
"He has one client!" Smith laughed, insisting his son is now his lawyer and agent, keeping it all in the family.
- Lovie Smith said Jay Cutler is "doing fine like the rest of our team" after the knee injury that took him out of the Bears NFC Championship game.
- On DT Tommie Harris who is still under contract for 2011 with the Chicago Bears: "Every player that's on our roster fits in our plans. Every day that I've been on the job, Tommie's been here. All those things will take care of itself. … Tommie has a contract."
- On the status of Center Olin Kreutz, who will become a free agent: "Every day I've been here, Olin Kreutz has been here. I believe in him, he's anchored our team. Our team leader … he's very important to what we do. I think Olin knows he's wanted."
- On the death of Dave Duerson: "An all-time great passed away at a young age, that in itself whether it's Dave Duerson or anyone, is a sad day. Children have to be without their dads. ... Anytime you lose someone in your family, it's just a tough time and of course our prayers are with the Duerson family as they go through this tough time."


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Has anyone else noticed that the best eating west of the Gowanus is now on a short stretch at the south end of Court?
Caputo's has long been brilliant. The only place in the hood that's managed to make the transition from old Italian ladies to gentrifying foodies. Their (fior di latte) mozzarella is as good as what you get in Italy, their grilled artichokes and cippolini are great, and not only do they have a fine selection of goods, they focus on keeping *great* prices. The imported lentils cost almost half of what they do at Ottomanelli's about ten blocks north.
Next door Nine-D serves up the best thai food in south Brooklyn *by far* and the best I've had in the city in a place that's not really trying that hard, if you know what I mean. For best results, eat in, and if you don't, make sure you check your order--multiple disasters. (Go to dish: Pad Ki Mao. But I dig their whole fish offerings.)
There's Frankies obviously, which more than enough has been written about already.
Buttermilk Channel is the restaurant I've been waiting for, a cross between Smith St Grocery (too chi chi to chill out in) and Chestnut (not good enough food): casual, tasty, and not killing you in the wallet. Excellent beers on tap. Superb herb-crusted hake. Pickles are nice. Cheese plate solid. Not worth crossing bridges for, but what you want nearby.
Finally there's Luna Rossa. It may not be my favorite pizza in the city, but it is the most authentic Neapolitan place in the city, east village included. The food to price ratio is outstanding. Just don't order anything but pizza...


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STAR: Cut up 7.5 oz. clear soap. Place in glass pyrex cup. Heat in microwave until soap has melted.
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Place loaf mold on cookie sheet. Place tree with star on top and lay down into the mold to size them. If they fit too tightly, trim the bottom of the tree slightly so they fit into the mold easier. (The tree with star will be laying on its side in the mold.)
Cut up entire 2 lb. tray of goat milk soap. Melt in microwave for about 3 minutes. Take out and stir until any undissolved pieces of soap have melted.
Add 2 tablespoons or 1 oz. of fragrance. Stir well.
Stir in 1 tsp. super sparkle glitter and mix well.
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Fill loaf mold about 1/3 full with melted goat milk soap. Check that soap temperature is at or below 130°F before pouring.
Spritz the entire tree and the star heavily with alcohol. Place tree with star on top sideways down into the mold. It should fit down into the melted soap and flow around it so no air pockets will form.
These will fit very snugly into the width of the mold. Looking into the mold from the end, try to position the tree into the middle with the star evenly on top.
Once tree and star are placed, spritz again with alcohol and pour remaining soap over top until mold is completely filled. Spritz again to remove any bubbles.
Let set up at room temperature.
Don't worry if your stars aren't completely straight on top of the tree. They are handmade and that is the beauty. Each loaf will be unique.
When completely set, gently pull sides away from soap. Turn mold over and gently push from bottom until loaf releases.
Place loaf in mitre box and cut up into 1" slices. Wrap soap and label accordingly.
INCI Ingredient Label:
Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Water, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Goats Milk, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Laurate, Triethanolamine, Tocopherol, Fragrance, Titanium Dioxide, Yellow 5, Mica (and) Iron Oxides (and) Ferric Ferrocyanide, Polyethylene Terephthalate, Acrylates Copolymer
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