Christopher
Active member
Just amazing, that you can get some great prices in other countries, just bought a Summarit-M 90mm f/2.5 here in Hong Kong, payed around 1100 US for it. Oh and yes it is original, with international warranty and everything.
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New list prices for Leica M lenses
- Thread starter tom in mpls
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iiiNelson
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I think the problem Leica has with the Summarits is that the "reasonably priced" line is still more expensive than most of the expensive stuff from the other guys. For the average person a ZM lenses gives just as good if not better real world performance so unless the red dot or having matching lenses to your camera is of utmost importance it's hard to justify spending extra in a worldwide economic downturn... unless photography is your livelihood.Well, we have only ourselves to blame
Leica tried producing some 'reasonably' priced lenses (the Summarits). Everybody agrees they are excellent quality, but even so, Leica have said that they sell more copies of the expensive 'lux' lenses. I wonder whether the shortage of the 50 'lux isn't because they have a limited capacity for making aspherical elements, and it's more profitable to put 'em in the nocti.
The only real way for Leica to lower prices in the future is to have direct competition so unless Zeiss makes a Digital Ikon or Voigtlander makes a Digital Bessa I expect prices to rise higher in the future.