[Leica] 75mm F/2 M lens?

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

There is a link to the PDF in the archive. www.leica-camera.com may have it 
now on their website also. If you can't find it, email me as I have 
squirreled a copy. The price is not significantly different than the 'lux. 
The design seems to be a dead-ringer for the '50 ASPH 'lux. In fact, I 
wonder which team starts first even though the '50 ASPH lux got released 
earlier.

The actual weight is somewhat unknown as the PDF mentions the total weight 
including packaging. The best guess is that it's around ~350 g or so, so it 
should handle and balance quite well. With the 50 ASPH lux design, you can 
expect good close up performance and F2 performance that is second to none.

Yes, I am encouraging everyone to buy this so there will be a flood of 75 
'lux in the used market, giving other people more choices :-) [ ah, the 
trickle down theory at work... ]

At 01:08 PM 3/19/2005, you wrote:

>Anyone have any info on this rumoured lens?
>I've been doing some portraiture with a 50 and a 90.
>I seem to do better with a 50, which makes me wonder what I'm going to do
>with the 90. Still, I favour a slightly longer lens.
>My thoughts keep leading me to believing in the 75 lux. But if a 75 'cron
>was in the works (hopefully less money) I'd be very interested.
>And as a second notion.
>Even though I've not yet been able to make an acceptable print (bw) from my
>epson, I keep at it.

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