[Leica] 75 'cron & Leica's inventory revaluation

[summicron at bellsouth.net (Frank F. Farmer)]

Right you are, Henning.  I was confused about the closest focusing distance 
for the 75 lux.  It is .75 m.  Whoops.  All the same, the 'cron seems to be 
more managable than the 'lux due to its smaller size and faster focusing.  I 
understand that, like the noctilux, the slower focusing on the 75 'lux is 
probably meant to insure precise focusing when shooting wide open - not as 
necessary with the 'cron.  

Frank

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From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: 2005/06/06 Mon PM 02:12:26 CDT
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] 75 'cron & Leica's inventory revaluation

At 11:01 AM -0500 6/6/05, Frank F. Farmer wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>I just returned from a conference in Chicago (and resubscribed to 
>the LUG) and on my few chances to get out of the hotel I wandered 
>down to Central Camera on South Wabash.  Central is a great old 
>camera shop and I learned two things while there:
>
>1)  After never really putting much value in the 75mm focal length, 
>I want a new 75 'cron.  This was a solid lens but it balanced very 
>well on the camera and did not block the frame lines.  It didn't 
>suffer from the loose apeture ring that we've been hearing about. 
>It focuses faster and closer than the 'lux.  I think the fact that 
>the 'lux only focused to 1 meter was the limiting factor for me.

Take another look at the 75/1.4. It focusses, and always has, to 
about .7m, or possibly .75m. Since its release it has produced the 
greatest magnification of any Leica M lens without goggles.

>Unfortunately, I didn't get to burn any film with it as I was there 
>at closing time and didn't get to play as much as I'd like.
>
>2)  The other thing that I learned was that Leica, in it effort to 
>increase the value of its existing inventory, is planning another 
>price increase for July 1, 2005.  New bodies will be over $3,200.00. 
>Just FYI.  Is this news?  Probably not considering how common 
>they've become.  My brand spanking new M6TTL was only $1,895.00 from 
>B&H barely four years ago.
>
>Any thoughts on the issues?  Has anyone done much shooting with the 
>new 75 'cron?  There is a short article about it in the Leica news 
>magazine I just received but it is not the same as a real world 
>review.
>

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