[Leica] 50mm ZM C-Sonnar

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)]

Jan,

No one has the C-Sonnar in stock. B&H, Adorama, and Popflash are all out
of stock and have been for a very long time. There are a couple on ebay
selling for a lot more than mine. Eventually, hopefully, ZM lenses will
become easy to find again, but for now this lens is damn near impossible
to get in the United States :D~

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On 3/30/12 4:21 PM, "Jan Decher" <wanderjan at gmail.com> wrote:

>Phil,
>I fully second what you wrote.  It is amazing to what length some people
>on
>this list go to make folks who don't buy into the overpriced Leica hype
>and
>opt to use Zeiss ZM or Cosina lenses or a Zeiss ZM or Cosina Voigtlander
>body instead feel inferior.
>I use the Biogon 2.8/35 and 4.5/21mm  and am very happy with the build
>quality and amazed by the optical quality.  C-Sonnar 1.5/50 and
>Tele-Tessar
>4/85 are on my short list.
>Note to Chris:  the C-Sonnar is widely available at well-known US
>retailers, except for a temporary bottleneck in delivery due to the
>Tsunami
>in Japan last year.
>Jan
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Phil Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] 50mm ZM C-Sonnar
>Really? ZM vs Zeiss semantics in a LUGger's For Sale post? That's BS
>Mark. The glass is every bit as good as the best Zeiss designs and the
>50mm Sonnar shows it. All the Zeiss offerings do. Before this current
>iteration of Zeiss it was Kyocera who had dominion over the company.
>Some lenses were made in Germany (as some of the current stable are as
>well) and those lenses for Contax SLR mount were absolutely top class
>designs and implementations.
>They aren't just ZM lenses. ZM is specifically for Leica M mount. they
>have also been made for Nikon S mount, Nikon F mount, Pentax K mount,
>Canon EOS mount and I may have missed one or two off the top of my head.
>If it's not Zeiss glass as you claim how does a 21mm or 28mm ZM lens
>perform at the same level or better than the current Leica designs?
>"Zeiss" glass doesn't matter in that case. It could be plastic Holga
>glass for all the people who actually make photographs with their
>lenses care over those pontificating about how Leica or old
>Zeiss or Schneider or whoever's lenses were the best...
>Phil Forrest
>
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