Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guys, it would have been easy to recommend the top of the line Leica lens had he said that price was no object. But price was an object, and Leica lenses, the best ones in particular, hold their value very well. Anything I say can be made to look foolish if you take it completely out of context. I thought I made that clear when I prefaced it with "Exactly in your price range" in the preceding sentence. This isn't an attack on Leica quality or a statement that Zeiss is better than Leica at any cost. I thought it was the best he could get in his price range. It that wasn't clear, then I hope this clears up that point of confusion. Sheeeze!!!!! On Jan 3, 2008 1:51 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > They feel like the high end CV lenses (those of the past 2-3 years). The > > edges are a bit sharper than those of the Leica lenses. I guess, for me, > if > > one has only $850 to play with, buying new rather than "bargain" is > safer in > > that you don't know what that bargain lens has been through. > > > > Jeffery > > > > On Jan 2, 2008 10:50 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > >>> Get this. Exactly in your price range, and the optics don't get any > >> better. > >>> > >>> http://www.adorama.com/ZI352BS.html > >> > > > > Well it looks great in this picture and they've got us sold these nice > Zeiss > people are having their name put on a lens which is not made by them nor > made to their usual tolerances or to their usual price point and we're > going: > " and the optics don't get any better." > And eating it up like blueberry pancakes with confectionaries sugar on top > and I think we know that the optics DO get quite a bit better when we pay > the money and it would say "Leica" on the lens and it would be made by > such > same company in Germany and it would be a > Leica Wide Angle 35mm f/2.0 Summicron M Aspherical Manual Focus Lens > (6-Bit, > Updated for Digital) - Chrome USA > Mfr# 11882 ? B&H# LE352AMS > Price: $ 2,395.00 > > But can now get a lens with a German name on it for a third the price. > And all we need is that and out imaginations a fishing hook and line... > In a kinder gentler weirder world it would be the same > Or better. > But in our hearts we know it ain't. > > "in the day" it would take us longer to save up for a given optic for our > Leica camera bodies." it would be less of a spur of the moment purchase. > > > > I see a used 35mm f2 > Leica Used Dept. > Wide Angle 35mm f/2.0 Summicron M Aspherical Lens (Black) > Price: $1,795.00 > B&H # 556253 > Item Condition : 9+ > Availability : In Stock > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, LA