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Old 05/01/08, 04:01 PM   #6 (permalink)
thrid
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Default Re: AW: Now that the Elmar 50/2.8 is discontinued..

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Originally Posted by luigi bertolotti View Post
Would it be WORTH for Leica ? Imho, or they design a new lens, collapsible, which gives a "modern" rendering, and price it accordingly to the investiment it needs (but such a lens did exist, and they dicontinued it)... or, for people who likes "old-style-rendering"... well, market abounds of good and cheap SM Elmar 50s.
This came up a few years ago on the LUG, I think. People looked in to getting Leica to make a LTM version of the 2.8/50 Elmar-M. Apparently Leica wanted an order for 200 lenses, with a deposit to do this.
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