Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well its comparative. These lenses cost a couple of grand more or less. That's a break over the new fast lenses that have been announced this decade now that Leica has been saved. This decade the 21mm, 28mm24mm f/1.4 Summilux-M's both cost close to six or seven grand. With the Elmarits taken out of the catalog at the time. Those Summilux-M's were a few price points high then these new ones just announced. So I think Leica is coming back to earth a bit. Back to where it used to be before it was saved. When the pricey 35 Summilux-M was announced this last decade the Summicron was taken out of the catalog. Not is back. I think Leica is in effect lowering its price point by quite a bit. A bit closer to mine. So it looks bad for the less than super rich. I think someone with a fast food job who lives with their Mom can save a few months paychecks and get one. On 1/15/16 11:17 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > You must be a gazillionaire if you feel these do not cost an arm and a leg! > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: >> I'll second that on my Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH. But had this and other >> Elmarits been discontinued in favor of a metal munching Summilux? I think >> so. So I'm glad Leica is back in the business of making glass for people >> who >> are not billionaires. And which both don't cost and weigh an arm and a >> leg. >> A 28 2.8 is nice and compact and its not like you're going to have trouble >> focusing on a dark groundglass on an image that does not appear to be >> snapping in and out. The Leica focusing mechanism is very many times more >> accurate than a groundglass with wides. >> And at ISO 6400 and up we are just fine with f2.8 >> >> >> On 1/15/16 3:40 PM, "Brian Keith Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >> wrote: >> >>> Wha's to improve? The Summicron-M 35mm f/2 ASPH is perfect. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photographer >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/