Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 50 R Summilux was upgraded just before the R system was cancelled (to the E60 filter version) but the 50 R Summicron hadn't been redesigned since 1976. There is a prototype 50/2 M asph at Solms that they have on display or show to factory tours periodically. I think they decided not to release it because it would be too expensive for a lens of that specification and most of the proposed features ended up going into the 50/1.4 asph. Given their recent price structure it wouldn't surprise me if it appears eventually. The old lend could do with upgrading: among other things, the overall look of the images it produces no longer matches as well as it used to with the rest of the M line - and I have always thought that a major strength of the M lenses was a very strong familial similarity in their imaging characteristics. All the recent (post 50/1.4 asph) asph lenses render almost identically but just with different focal lengths and apertures. Marty On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> The oldest lens in the lineup is the 50 Summicron. ?That is the lens that >> most >> likely will get a technology replacement, or so goes my crystal ball..... >> >> >> Frank > > > They spent all that trouble to come out with a premium new 50 Summicron for > the R. then no R. > Summicron is the Leica flagship and main marque as far as I go. > F 2 and be there. That's what Leica is all about as I see it. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >