Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/11

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Subject: [Leica] Goodbye Elmar 50 and Elmarit 90
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Thu Oct 11 11:22:52 2007
References: <20071011134735.0FE3B2FBBF@donald.hostspirit.ch>

that was to be expected, too much overlap in price. now all the sudden
we will hear about how good both of these lenses are and of course
ebay prices on these lenses will go through the roof


On 10/11/07, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote:
> Just received the newsletter of a german Leica dealer, which confirms that 
> some Leica lenses will be discontinued:
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> Total abandon:
> Leica Elmar-M 2,8/50mm black & chrome
> Leica Elmarit-M 2,8/90mm black & chrome
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> Abandon of chrome versions:
> Leica Summicron-M 2,0/50mm (non ASPH)
> Leica Macro-Elmar-M 4,0/90mm
> The chrome ASPH Summicrons 35 and 50 stay in production.
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> The abandon of some chrome lenses was announced earlier. The full abandon 
> of Elmar 50 and Elmarit 90 was to be expected after the introduction of 
> the new Summarit-M lenses. No words about the 75 Summilux which was also 
> expected by some to be discontinued.
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  regards, mehrdad

Replies: Reply from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] Goodbye Elmar 50 and Elmarit 90)
In reply to: Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Goodbye Elmar 50 and Elmarit 90)