I think I would have to take mine and get it refinished in the same "blued Black" of the O-series, love the finish. To your point I think much of the lens could be used as designed, obviously the mount would need changing and it would need to be rangefinder coupled (the O is not).
I wonder if the "front of lens" aperture selection would be kept of a more traditional ring used? For convenience the ring would be nice but I think I would opt for the front selector (though this would cause issues with using IR filters on the M8). By keeping it in front the lens maintains a bit more "slight" appearance which I think really works for this lens.
Kent
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Originally Posted by wizard
Luigi,
there would be no need to design a completely new lens. Leica could use (and should use) the optical cell of the Anastigmat 3.5/50, which they developed for the replica 0-series. Many mechanical parts of this already existing lens could be used, too. The only new parts would be related to the interchangeable mount (which the 0-series did not have), but those would be relatively few parts. I would think that a run of, say, 1000 lenses could be financially feasible, and I have no doubts that such a lens, if produced as a sort of replica Elmar 3.5/50 - arguably THE most famous Leica lens ever (chrome, of course) - would be swallowed by collectors all over the world.
Regards,
Andreas
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