Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] New 25/1.4 Summilux ASPH
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Oct 18 16:18:45 2006
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On Oct 18, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Howard Cummer wrote:

> 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.


hi Howard, what do you know about the Sigma 30mm 1.4 for Olympus  4/3  
rds...?


thanks Steve


> 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>
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>>
>> 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
>>>
>
>
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