[Leica] Summarit press release

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Mark,
So you keep the catlog under your pillow.  Does this mean you are hoping the 
lens fairy will replace the catlog with a lens or two?  ;-)

Yes the 90 Summarit looks interesting to me, as I have a 90 Tele Elmarit 
Thin lens right now.  Unfortunately it is one that has the flair problem 
with bright light sources.  To bad as otherwise it is a nice lens.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>: 
-------------- 


> > I see no reason a lower price on the new lenses would lead to lower 
> > quality. 
> > The new 28/2.8 asph is half the price of the lens it replaced and the 
> > build 
> > level and optical quality is very much the top quality of the rest of 
> > their 
> > lenses. I love mine and I see no lowering of quality and build level at 
> > all. 
> > I expect the new lenses will be just as good as we have come to expect 
> > of 
> > Leica quality optics. 
> > 
> > I find it interesting that everyone complains about the price of Leica's 
> > lenses and keeps demanding lower pricing, and when they do, everyone 
> > starts 
> > whining about lower quality and Leica not keeping to their old ways. 
> > Even 
> > before anyone has even had one in their hands. It seems to me that they 
> > are 
> > doing just what everyone has asked them to do. So now its our turn to 
> > step up 
> > to the counter... Maybe I can get my wife to get me the new 90 as a 
> > retirement gift come January. ;-) 
> > 
> > Gene 
> > 
> > 
> 
> The way I've see it its a 2.8 not a 2. 
> An Elmarit not an Summicron. So its the slow economy offering again the 
> faster premium offering. 
> 
> In the Leica catalogs of pervious era's a couple of which I just landed 
> from 
> the Leica Gallery in Greenwich Village and have next to my bed and at 
> night 
> and put under my pillow when I sleep at hopefully night you see the lens 
> offerings. 
> And there are different price points built into the fact that there is a 
> slow medium and fast offering of each. Or at least a slow then a fast. 
> The slow lens is the in effect economy line and the fast one the premium 
> one. 
> And that was before most of the names strictly meant a certain f stop. 
> Now we have a Summarit line. And as its modern times that's gong to mean 
> its 
> going to be an f 2.5 line with no deviations from that f stop. 
> But as its the weekend the 2.5 line is under track maintenance and you 
> need 
> to take the bus. Till 12:01 AM Monday. Whatever that means. 
> But its not that easy as a 2.5 50 is a medium speed lens while a 2.5 90 is 
> on the fast side. As would be a wide wide angle. The extra examples being 
> a 
> 2.5 would make a very high end hunk of glass for a 300mm; 
> or 15 mm lens. 
> 
> I just don't want them to forget the slow end. 
> The Local. For us every day Joes. And Josephine's. 
> Who need to stop and smell the roses. 
> 
> After all you don't have to look through the darned thing. 
> You look through the little window on the side. 
> Things are not brighter and pop into focus better when they are faster 
> glass. 
> In the dominate SLR world that is the real lure of speed. 
> 
> 
> Faster also means 
> bigger heavier and off balance more expensive and more prone to flare. 
> And longer before I can save up and get it. 
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner 
> Harlem, NY 
> 
> rabinergroup.com 
> 
> 
> 
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