Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Like a race horse that's specially bred to run. Cameras and lenses are made to be used (even the specials on occasion). I read somewhere, Erwin perhaps, that it was a combination of the high manufacturing cost and build complexity that did in this lens. A shame for the R user who would love to make images with it. Regards, Greg SML wrote: >Hello, > > If the lens is so excellent as most claimed, why did Leica stop making it. >I know that the lens cost more to make than its set price. I think Leica >could have raise the price to the point where profitable once Leica must >have seen its recently prices. They did not have to decide to stop making >them. I cannot know what would be the right price to set for profitability >but these days the lens fetch more than 5 grands. Even for that price, its >seems lots of people are craving for it. Leica could have made several >hundred or one thousand or whatever for around 5 grand street price once >they already must have everything to make the lens. Then the lens should >sell like crazy in my opinion. I might be missing something here in >marketing strategy but Leica used to make so many different kinds of >specially engraved so-called special editions of the M6. I thought they >were their intentional collectibility generators with nothing special. Why >didn't they do it with this kind of excellent lens? Well, as one of an avid >user of the R system, I am depressed. > >Regards, >David Lee > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Pascal" <cyberdog@attglobal.net> >To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:48 AM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Vario-Elmarit-R 35-70/2.8 ASPH for sale > > >>On 16-02-2002 00:38 inyoung@jps.net wrote: >> >>>I am surprised to see that this lens started being talked about all of a >>>sudden. I don't know how rare it is but do know there are quite a few >>> >as rare > >>>as this lens. Other than its rarity, what made people start talking >>> >about and > >>>seek after this lens? This is a R lens which normally is not considered >>>collectible. >>> >>Hi David, >> >>I own one of these lenses since they became available (not knowing at the >>time that it would become so scarce) as I was looking for a >>high-performance, luminous (f/2.8) zoom that would cover the most often >> >used > >>focal lengths (35-70 or, better, 28-70) and that would replace several of >> >my > >>fixed focal length lenses in that range. >>I am one of those who are actually *using* this vario lens. It is my >> >single > >>most used R lens. >>I have never actually seen a test report other than the one by Erwin Puts >>(probably because photo magazines didn't get one into their hands), but it >>is truly excellent. There are lots of images taken with it on my web >> >pages, > >>but obviously the resolution doesn't do justice to it. >> >>Pascal >>NO ARCHIVE >> >>-- >>--------- >>Visit my Leica photo pages at http://www.leicapages.com >>--------- >><<< PGP public key available upon request >>> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html