Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Len the Leica site contains DNGs as well as JPG samples for down load. That's the full 10MP bad boys. Just on first looks here the samples look very smooth. I just think that the series is a very welcome development for rangefinder folks. I think that they (the new Summarits) are intended to demonstrate that Leica is still a premium manual focus prime lens maker and appeal to people for the reason that Leica lenses appeal to people. I think that it is a smart move by the new CEO. Remembering that this is their niche of the market. I guess we shall see what their build quality and performance is like once they start to become available (from November)? It would not be reasonable to expect the same performance nor build quality as the very much more expensive current asph brothers. The new little Elmarit 28 seems to have been well received at its price-point. I hope these do well too. Hoppy -----Original Message----- ....I'm also not impressed with 3x5 jpeg prints meant to illustrate high quality performance. The nice thing about these lenses is they are all 6 bit coded. You don't cut your prices in half without giving up something. What are they giving up? Len