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Subject: [Leica] New 25/1.4 Summilux ASPH!!!
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Oct 18 10:46:20 2006

Thanks - It was just pointed out to me. It's weird though - They had 2, and
I don't see it at B&H.


On 10/18/06 1:11 PM, "mehrdad" <msadat@gmail.com> wrote:

> B D, amazon, is selling the sigma version in 4/3 mount right now for
> about 440 or so
> 
> On 10/18/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
>> I don't know a thing about it - except that I, too, can't wait to hear 
>> what
>> it's going to cost, and hope that, unlike the 4/3 version of the Sigma 30
>> 1.4, it actually shows up one of these days; the Sigma is still MIA.
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/18/06 9:50 AM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> agree with b.d.
>>> 
>>> the lens can be made in south-western Kiribati as long as it performs 
>>> well
>>> and
>>> does not force me to raise my mortgage for buying it. all I can say from 
>>> the
>>> german oly forum is that the people there are awaitening this lens with 
>>> big
>>> enthusiasm, and the name leica got a new meaning for many of them. btw,
>>> cooperating with east-asian companies is leica's only chance to survive.
>>> 
>>> b.d., do you happen to know about the price of this lens?
>>> 
>>> didier
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Good Lord, Frank, you've really gotten to be as predictable as I am. :-)
>>>> And 'frankly my dear,' I don't give a rat's ass whose factory the lens 
>>>> is
>>>> made in - nor should anyone who cares more about the images they produce
>>>> than the brand of camera they use; the only three relevant questions 
>>>> are:
>>>> how good is the image quality? How good is the build quality? And do the
>>>> first two provide a rationale for the cost, whatever that may be? ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/17/06 11:15 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I'll believe it is a real Leica lens when someone tells me he saw it 
>>>>> made
>>>>> in
>>>>> the Leica factory... Until then, it is a Japanese
>>>>> Panasonic lens with Leica's name ( and maybe tech design/support) on 
>>>>> it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And since it does not fit a real Leica..........
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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In reply to: Message from msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad) ([Leica] New 25/1.4 Summilux ASPH!!!)