[Leica] Leica announced 3 new lenses.... today......

Jayanand Govindaraj jayanand at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 20:17:24 PST 2016


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
>
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> On 1/15/16 3:40 PM, "Brian Keith Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
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>> Wha's to improve? The Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH is perfect.
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