Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 15, 2005, at 11:57 AM, <bdcolen@gmail.com> wrote: > What's a little big, Feli, is the $2941 for an f2 75 - At that price, > and with film photography on the decline, I'm sure people are going to > be beating a path to the Solmes door to snatch up these 'little' > suckers. Size and price. I thought it would be smaller and cheaper than the Summilux. But then again I also didn't expect it to have a floating element. I was expecting Leica to introduce a traditional design, below $2000. Makes me wonder what will happen to the 75 Summilux. Film based photography may be on the decline, but it's still a multibillion dollar business. There is also nothing stopping you from using the lens on a digital body, once one becomes available. > By the way, I wonder if anyone else was struck by Erwin Put's > description of the RD-1 as a Bessa with the sensor dropped into the > film gate the the rest of the electronics crammed in where they'd fit > - just what Leica was saying couldn't be done until the day of the > Epson announcement. Full frame B.D. The problems Leica was talking are with a full frame chip. Very similar to the issues Canon has with the 1Ds II. That was also a few years ago. Believe it or not some of those issues have since been resolved, with newer chip designs. > Oh well, at least there's a new 75 coming out. :-) If the rumors are correct that 2/75 will make a nice 105 with a x1.37 digital M. The fact that it is a APO design makes me even more convinced that it was designed with digital in mind. Geez. Feli ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com