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

[Mark Rabiner]

Well its comparative. These lenses cost a couple of grand more or less.
That's a break over the new fast lenses that have been announced  this
decade now that Leica has been saved. This decade the 21mm, 28mm24mm f/1.4
Summilux-M's both cost close to six or seven grand. With the Elmarits taken
out of the catalog at the time.
Those Summilux-M's were a few price points high then these new ones just
announced. So I think Leica is coming back to earth a bit. Back to where it
used to be before it was saved.

When the pricey 35 Summilux-M was announced this last decade the Summicron
was taken out of the catalog. Not is back. I think Leica is in effect
lowering its price point by quite a bit. A bit closer to mine.

So it looks bad for the less than super rich.
I think someone with a fast food job who lives with their Mom can save a few
months paychecks and get one.



On 1/15/16 11:17 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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