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Leica has just announced they are selling their last 100 Noctilux. It will be a special collection presented in a wooden box... for the symbolical price of.... 10,000 Euros (US$15,556)

 

.... if could live without mine and with an extra 7000 Euros in my pocket.... anyone interested?

 

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Leica has just announced they are selling their last 100 Noctilux. It will be a special collection presented in a wooden box... for the symbolical price of.... 10,000 Euros (US$15,556)

Eric, that's the price including sell taxes, without tax it is 8360 euro (US$ 12,960) for those last f/1.0 Nocti.

A lot less! :):cool:

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I called Leica USA and spoke to someone, (a man named Dave, perhaps) and he said he knew nothing about it.

 

I wonder if Leica will build a 35 f1? (Would that be the more 'normal' lens on the cropped M8?)

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I called Leica USA and spoke to someone, (...) and he said he knew nothing about it.
It's hot, it's brand new. A Leica dealer got this news dated ~16h00 GMT.

Time to cross the Atlantic and you'll get it there.

Obviously you can't wait to get yours. :rolleyes:

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I suppose if you are in to collecting , then welcome aboard. These are sure to mean something down the road. But if you admire the lens enough to use it, then why on earth would you pay that kind of inflated price ? Yesterday I took delivery of a current model notilux in LN condition for $5240. I believe that if you want one badly enough, they can be found for somewhere in the $4000 to $6000 range. It all comes down to the purpose of the purchase.

 

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I do want a Noctilux, but not to stow away in a collectable box, but to put on the front of an MP or M7 that I plan to buy, and get down to imagemaking.

 

I wish someone could confirm for me if Leica is going to stop making these lenses (non-collectable Noctilux). Honestly, it doesn't seem very likely that they would. Sure it's a pricey lens, but it's a freakin' F1 lens!

 

And I thought I read that newer Noctilux lenses were made in Solms, older ones in Canada at Elcan?

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Sure they are not to charge 150 more for coding ? :D Anyway... 100 collectors in the world can probably be found... I think they'll make some "special numbering" too...

Apart joking and the opinions on price, they are going to be the last product from Canada... end of what used to be a legendary site for lenses :o

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