Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/05

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica 28mm 2.8 ASPH lens
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Sep 5 18:38:40 2006

Don't need an external finder - just a .58 body. ;-) It worked perfectly.


On 9/5/06 9:23 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> I sold a very good slr with two 1.4 primes & a zoom plus another RF and
> lenses to pay for mine. The cupboard is much emptier, but Oh the pictures
> from that lens are worth every cent. I think you need to budget for a
> separate finder as well, though. (just to make it even more unobtanium)
> 
> Cheers
> Hoppy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> B.
> D. Colen
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:20
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica 28mm 2.8 ASPH lens
> 
> Sell your soul or your children for a  28 Summicron, asph - definitely 
> worth
> it. Although to be perfectly honest, virtually nothing's worth it at the
> current prices. Hold out for a used one. But it is a fabulous lens -
> reintroduced me to the 28 mm focal length and  supplanted the 35 1.4 asph 
> as
> my "standard" lens.
> 
> 
> On 9/5/06 8:10 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> If you analyze the Leica pricing, it is $1000 per faster F stop.  ( see
> the
>> 35/1.4 ASPH and the 35/2 ASPH at B+H for a $3400 vs
>> $2200 price))
>> 
>> If the 28/2 ASPH Sells for  $3200, then, using my logical but fully
> uninformed
>> guesstimate,  the 28/2.8 ASPH should be $2000- $2200.
>> 
>> I own the T-E First generation.  Being as it has 28/4 as one of the focal
>> lengths, this lens is a bit marginal.  It is too close to
>> what I now own.  I would probably be better off with the (unobtanium) 28/2
>> ASPH.
>> 
>> OK.. rationalization time.... I will wait for the (super unobtanium)
> 28/1.4
>> ASPH., for which there is not even a badly faked
>> picture.
>> 
>> I feel better.
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i@earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
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