Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> The 50 R Summilux was upgraded just before the R system was cancelled >> (to the E60 filter version) but the 50 R Summicron hadn't been >> redesigned since 1976. >> >> There is a prototype 50/2 M asph at Solms that they have on display or >> show to factory tours periodically. I think they decided not to >> release it because it would be too expensive for a lens of that >> specification and most of the proposed features ended up going into >> the 50/1.4 asph. Given their recent price structure it wouldn't >> surprise me if it appears eventually. The old lend could do with >> upgrading: among other things, the overall look of the images it >> produces no longer matches as well as it used to with the rest of the >> M line - and I have always thought that a major strength of the M >> lenses was a very strong familial similarity in their imaging >> characteristics. All the recent (post 50/1.4 asph) asph lenses render >> almost identically but just with different focal lengths and >> apertures. >> >> Marty > > And they cancelled the 2.8 a year or so ago. > Now that the M9 is out the 50 is a very strong focal length again and the > identify is back on many of its lens focal lengths. > I'm sure the slow end of its 50's is on the short list. > A Summicron if not an elmar. > If I was running Leica they'd be coming out with a strong new 40mm lens. > Even more "normal" and workable than a 50. > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information The "identity" is back I meant to write. On the lens focal lengths. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner