Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B & H has a list price of $959, and sales price of $959 for the 12mm/5.6 - but it is not currently in stock. The 15mm has a list price of $779 and sales price of $449. Hopefully the 12mm's price will fall after the initial rush - if I remember correctly, the 15mm's price fell as it became widely available. K. Simon Ogilvie wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 at 07:49:22 +0100 Simon Lamb wrote: > >I wonder what price the Heliar will be? > > The test report mentions a price of £650 several times. > This is £400 over the price of the 15mm lens, so it had > better be 2.5 times better performance... > > > The demonstation images in AP look > >excellent, and the lens would certainly seem to open up a new avenue of > >creative possibilities. There, that sounds good, I'll try that on my wife > >this evening, could be the cost justification I need! > > Hmm, wouldn't work with my wife! I "upgraded" my old 35mm > Summicron for a new Aspheric one yesterday at a local camera > fair, and that was a hard one to justify to my wife. It's a > bigger, heavier lens, and is the same spec as the previous > one, so explaining why I spent a weeks wages on it is tricky. > Any ideas you might have with that one will be gratefully > recieved ;-) > > Simon. > > Totalise - the Users ISP > ---------------------- > To become a member and a shareholder > visit http://www.totalise.net