Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/05

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Subject: [Leica] New Tri-Elmar Price
From: tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield)
Date: Sun Aug 5 11:41:23 2007
References: <1a79e731c434a6d0ba2712a66b8b38ce@cshore.com>

It sounds like no one else has heard the rumor, fortunately.  If its  
true, I guess I wont be selling or trading in my 21mm Asph for the  
WATE, after all!  And I concur with the comment the that the 15mm 2.8  
Zeiss would look more competitive -- take a look at its MTF curves -  
WOW!

Tom Schofield

On Aug 5, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Douglas Nygren wrote:

> I heard the other day that the price of new Tri-Elmar, you know,  
> the one that has all those wonderful wide angle lenses in it, is  
> going up significantly. At more than $3500 it seemed pricey. Above  
> $5,000 it makes the 15mm Zeiss look more appealing. Have any you  
> heard the same rumor? What I heard was that a 35% price increase is  
> occurring.
>
> Doug
>
>
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