Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm still hoping for a digital camera with a luminance-only, monochrome sensor. It's probably just a dream, but I can dream. I have heard the same comments about the 50/2 (too expensive to improve performance) but now that Leica aren't scared to charge $5K for a lens, they might go for it. I hope so: the modern 50/2 lenses are all essentially tweaks on the same six element design. I'd like to see some innovation and some modern design incorporated into it. Marty On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > The annual LHSA meeting is in Wetzlar/Solms this fall, and if I'm not > mistaken, it coincides with Photokina. There was some talk that Leica asked > LHSA to have their meeting in Germany this year, that "something big" was > going to happen, and wouldn't you like to be there for it? Now we have this > "teaser" in the annual report. > > *Something* is in the works. ?But who knows what that something is? ?It > could be anything from a major new model to an exciting new rebadged > Panasonic point-and-shoot. ?As to the 50 Summicron, I've heard someone from > Leica (I think Stefan Daniel) say that they had looked at improving the 50 > Summicron, but it simply wasn't cost-effective to do so. Of course, they > could change their minds. ?In the face of a $5,000 Summilux Asph, hey, a > $4,000 Summicron would seem positively economical. > > If a new camera model truly is in the works, I'm with Mark on preferring > something with better high ISO to more resolution. > > Stay tuned to the rumor mill for further hints, and you, too, can become > part of the carefully calculated Internet buzz. Meanwhile, I will continue > to shoot pictures with my laughably obsolete M8 and my creaky legacy > lenses. > > --Peter > >> make sense a new 50/2 asph is on order >> >> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:46 PM, <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> > Wrong.. the oldest lens in the M lineup is the 50 Summicron. >> > >> > it is due for an update.....if for no other reason other than it has not >> > been updated in the past MANY years.... >> > >> > >> > Frank >> > >> > >> > >> i think the oldest is the 90/apo. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >