[Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> I did not think there were any new R lenses, so his comment made me think I
> had missed something along the way.

Gene


There were two notable new R lenes since I've been on the lug
The new 50 I just mentioned. Lots of moveable parts on the inside lots of
money. But not for the M we were all bummed out.

And what began as a new Super Angulon ultra wide but ended up as a very high
end compromise. JSK (Schneider-Kreuznach  and the People in Solms did not
see eye to eye along the way.
I think it was the Leica 15mm f/2.8 Super-Elmarit-R ASPH ? 2001 that I must
be thinking about. As 2001 was about five minutes ago and I'm very ADD.

Super-Elmarit instead of Super Angulon.
Sound the same if you say it real fast and blur your words.

An earlier version was
Leica 15mm f/3.5 Super-Elmar-R ? 1980 (Carl Zeiss design)
The key seems to be Leica doesn't use the term Super (Zuper) if they are
using outside lens design (their competition) hired guns. Mercenaries.

Oh and the Leica 90mm APO-Summicron-R ASPH ? 2002 was ported over to the R.
It was all done in the software.

I would want to be using on my R8 a
Leica 21mm?35mm f/3.5?f/4.0 Vario-Elmar-R zoom ? 2002

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Mark William Rabiner