Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/14

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Prices may not be artificially high
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:47:27 -0700
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I love my ZM 85/2. For my needs, I like it better than the 90/2AA I used to
own. I know it's not a true Sonnar design, but I like it a lot. It has the
soft bokeh of the 75/1.4 but yet still sharp where it counts.

However, the color characteristic of the Zeiss is definitely different from
Leica's. Much bluer.

I got it used and it always wiggled a bit. Then it suffered a mishap and it
wiggled even more. I sent it off to a respected Leica repair person who said
they can handle it, but they charged me $125 and the lens acted the same. I
contacted Zeiss and they shipped it back to Germany to have a CLA and they
fixed it right. Should have done it in the first place. Oh well.

I suspect people either buy the 90/2 AA or one of the earlier Leica 90s.
Lots of choices there.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The ZM 85/2 is discontinued, and is no longer listed here:
> http://lenses.zeiss.com/photo/en_DE/products/ikon/distagont2815zm.html
>
> I think the high price resulted in poor sales.  It would be
> interesting to see how many they made.
>
> Marty
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> wrote:
> > There are a couple data points: the two Zeiss ZM lens that are made in
> > Germany, the ZM 85/2 and the 15/2.8 are both listed at $3500-$4500, a
> > striking distance within the Leica's. So really I guess you pay for what
> you
> > get - which is tight tolerance, high quality stuff.
> >
> > Besides, even the high end Nikon and Canon bodies are priced at
> $6000-$7000,
> > and in theory, most of the R&D there are funded by the lower priced
> bodies,
> > not the high end ones.
> >
> > FWIW
> >
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