[Leica] New 25/1.4 Summilux ASPH

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

My guess is that the reason he said you'd have to ask Leica is that you were
looking at the Leica lens - keep in mind that there is an effort to promote
the 4/3 system equipment as a whole - a choice of bodies, a choice of lenses
from several manufacturers. There is nothing in the Olympus catalogue, or in
their now almost two-year-old lens 'road map,' that even comes close to
resembling a 25 f 1.4 - unfortunately. I agree with you that the real
weakness in the system at this point is primes; there are several fast
telephotos and zooms, but the only vaguely fast lens in the 0-100 mm range
is the 50 f2, which is a 100 f2 equivalent.


On 10/18/06 6:35 PM, "Howard Cummer" <cummer@netvigator.com> wrote:

> It was on display at the Olympus stand at Photokina, under glass and
> lit like a jewelry display. I asked the Olympus rep what the
> suggested retail price might be and he smiled and said that I would
> have to ask Leica. So, I infer that it is going to be Leica priced
> rather than Olympus priced and therefore expensive. Still, I would
> sure like to have one. The weakness in the 4/3rds lens line up is
> fast single focal lengths - especially at the wide end. The Olympus
> stand at Photokina, BTW, took "Old Hollywood" as its theme, had a big
> 1954 pink Cadillac convertible on the set and against a black and
> white panoramic backdrop of New York a German Marilyn Monroe look-a-
> like came out every hour on the hour to sing a bit and have her
> pleated skirt fluffed up by the subway wind! Very entertaining.
> Cheers
> Howard
> 
> On 19 Oct 2006, at 3:15 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
> 
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:12:21 -0400
>> From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New 25/1.4 Summilux ASPH!!!
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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>> 
>> 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
>>> 
> 
> 
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