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Subject: [Leica] Leica announced 3 new lenses.... today......
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:47:24 +0530
References: <5699593C.8030508@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <D2BF11DA.536A7%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,
You must be a gazillionaire if you feel these do not cost an arm and a leg!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> I'll second that on my Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH. But had this and other
> Elmarits been discontinued in favor of a metal munching Summilux? I think
> so. So I'm glad Leica is back in the business of making glass for people 
> who
> are not billionaires. And which both don't cost and weigh an arm and a leg.
> A 28 2.8 is nice and compact and its not like you're going to have trouble
> focusing on a dark groundglass on an image that does not appear to be
> snapping in and out. The Leica focusing mechanism is very many times more
> accurate than a groundglass with wides.
> And at ISO 6400 and up we are just fine with f2.8
>
>
> On 1/15/16 3:40 PM, "Brian Keith Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> 
> wrote:
>
>> Wha's to improve? The Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH is perfect.
>>
>>
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