Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was on display at the Olympus stand at Photokina, under glass and lit like a jewelry display. I asked the Olympus rep what the suggested retail price might be and he smiled and said that I would have to ask Leica. So, I infer that it is going to be Leica priced rather than Olympus priced and therefore expensive. Still, I would sure like to have one. The weakness in the 4/3rds lens line up is fast single focal lengths - especially at the wide end. The Olympus stand at Photokina, BTW, took "Old Hollywood" as its theme, had a big 1954 pink Cadillac convertible on the set and against a black and white panoramic backdrop of New York a German Marilyn Monroe look-a- like came out every hour on the hour to sing a bit and have her pleated skirt fluffed up by the subway wind! Very entertaining. Cheers Howard On 19 Oct 2006, at 3:15 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:12:21 -0400 > From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New 25/1.4 Summilux ASPH!!! > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Message-ID: <C15BBC95.17131%bd@bdcolenphoto.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I don't know a thing about it - except that I, too, can't wait to > hear what > it's going to cost, and hope that, unlike the 4/3 version of the > Sigma 30 > 1.4, it actually shows up one of these days; the Sigma is still MIA. > > > On 10/18/06 9:50 AM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com> > wrote: > >> agree with b.d. >> >> the lens can be made in south-western Kiribati as long as it >> performs well and >> does not force me to raise my mortgage for buying it. all I can >> say from the >> german oly forum is that the people there are awaitening this lens >> with big >> enthusiasm, and the name leica got a new meaning for many of them. >> btw, >> cooperating with east-asian companies is leica's only chance to >> survive. >> >> b.d., do you happen to know about the price of this lens? >> >> didier >>