Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tell me about it. I've got the 50mm 'Lux ASPH and just about choked on the price. Stunning bokeh, though; the smoothest I've ever seen.? Cheers, Mitch =========== Website: http://exploratorius.us/ On Aug 22, 2013, at 05:21 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I got my first Leica, an M6 with a 50 Summicron in May of 1993 the 50 > Summicron cost $650 new quite a bit cheaper than any other new lens made by > Leica at the time and there was no Cosina Voigtl?nder or Cosina Zeiss for > Leica yet. Instead of that there were older Leica lenses. Many said "Leitz" > on them. > Soon after it went up to $750 where it stayed it seems to me a real long > time. Several years maybe. After owning and using it a few years and > joining > the LUG it I found out it was not one of the better offerings from Leica as > the formula was a bit old hat and in need of revamping. All kinds of > exciting things happened in Leica glass - Asph's and Apo's in odd focal > lengths a 24mm a 75mm but the 50 Summicron stayed old. Really the flagship > lens of the lineup if not the 1.4 stayed the same. Old and creaky. The > images had a great look. But apparently the tests showed the resolution was > not there. Not there compared to the tinny new fake Zeiss' s and > Voigtl?nders. > Well most of us know now they finally did it. The revamped the 50 and its > called the Leica APO-Summicron-M 50 mm f/2 ASPH > And it's been an even twenty years. > And it cost not $750. But $7500. > That's a whole lot of different class of change even with inflation! > I'm sure its worth it though. > A real inspiration figuring out how to swing it. > I need to do something BIG! > That lens on a new M 240 I think the number is would put sparkle in my eye. > And I think a sparkle in my results. > > -- > 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