Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Darn, and here I am ruining the collectible value of my 50mm Summilux by USING it! ;-) But you are right, they were quite cheap for a while. I bought mine from Foto Oehling in Germany for a lot less than a normal Summilux M costs. Nathan John Collier wrote: > If you are willing to buy one hundred units, or can arrange a group to > buy one hundred units, Leica will make any of its current M mount lenses > in LTM. It may take a year or so to arrange all the details and for the > lenses to actually get to production. Leica produced a run of 50/1.4, > 50/2 and 35/2A lenses primarily for the Japanese market though they also > turned up in NA after a while. They were very inexpensive at the end, > less than the M version, and came with LTM to M adapter. They also did a > small run of new 35mm finders. > > As with all this sort of stuff, they had trouble selling them all and > had to discount them at the end to move them. Naturally, now they are > unavailable, prices are going up. > > John Collier > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html