[Leica] The price of 50mm has gone up a decimal

[robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)]

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/lenses/a_new_benchmark_in_optical_performance_design_and_mechanical_excellence.shtml


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:21 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/
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