Any new lenses for 2014 ??

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28 Summilux, 35 Summicron (AA? A match for the 50 AA), 75 Summilux

 

Those are the obvious ones IMO, indeed I thought one or more would have been announced by now, pure conjecture of course

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[algrove]

28 Summilux, 35 Summicron (AA? A match for the 50 AA), 75 Summilux

 

Those are the obvious ones IMO, indeed I thought one or more would have been announced by now, pure conjecture of course

 

Your 3 choices make sense. However, with all the APO50 hubbub I wonder if the 35AA will be delayed if it comes out at all. Then again, if Karbe wants to introduce more lenses that are not Coke cans in size then the 35AA would be his first choice I would think.

[Guest Marc G.]

I think a 28 Summilux will definitely come. I've talked to an employee of Leica about a possible 14mm lens. If he didn't lie in my face a 14 Super Elmar will not become reality.

[UliWer]

Other end of the month (April 30).

 

I'd call that just in time for an April joke - from Leica. Usually delays are longer.

[semi-ambivalent]

As I understood it, an EVF.

 

All they have to do now is find a place to put a honking huge battery, huh? Maybe they can make the MP fatter, like the M, that would help. Then, having changed the MP internals they could put a sunset date on spare parts for the non-EVF MP.

 

Perhaps "my declining eyesight" is showing up a lot in letters to Leica, you never know. But I'm inclined to think the MP's VF is going to remain non-electronic. (Of course if there's a good time for a major MP "upgrade" it would be now because I just bought one.)

[johnkunstadter]

I'd call that just in time for an April joke - from Leica. Usually delays are longer.

 

Perhaps you understood the comment as referring to the release date; I was referring to the date when I heard it (April 30, 2013).

[CheshireCat]

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One more vote for 28 Lux.

Also, an updated 90 Cron FLE with 70 cm MFD would be nice.

And always waiting for the Noctilux 35

[rramesh]

A 28 Summilux will definitely come. I've talked to an employee of Leica about this lens. If he didn't lie in my face a 14 Super Elmar will not become reality.

I for one would like a 28 Lux but if it's going to cost twice as much as a 28 Cron and is going to be significantly bigger with finder blockage, then it will be a deal breaker.

[erlingmm]

I still think a new generation of the Leica MATE as a true zoom, and extending closer to 70mm, although it would probably be f/4-5,6, would be very interesting for the new generation M with EVF, as an everyday walk around daylight lens. If not way too expensive, I think it would also appeal to a broader and younger user group.

[algrove]

Any new 5.6 lens would not be my cup of tea. However, a 28-70 could be interesting in an M lens. These lenses are so difficult to manufacture I would be surprised to see that type of lens come out before a new fixed FL lens. Perhaps Leica will save that zoom for some upcoming AF system.

[luigi bertolotti]

'14, the year we finally will have a 14mm Super Elmar.

 

.... I wanted to write a post exactly like this.... it is some time that a 14 is rumored (am I wrong , or there is even a 6 bit code already defined for it ?)

[steveclem]

A version of the Digilux 2 lens would be rather nice but it would be hideously expensive to market a FF version I'm sure.

[farnz]

I heard that the 28 Summilux will be a PC lens aimed at low light interior work and to make use of the M's EVF.

 

Pete.

[algrove]

If it is like the R 28 PC lens then it only corrects one axis unlike the Canon models.

[farnz]

No, tilt and shift according to the grapevine.

 

Pete.

[01af]

I heard that the Summilux-M 28 mm will be a PC lens aimed at low light interior work and to make use of the M's EVF.

So—now I heard this too, thanks. Still, I don't believe it (even though I don't consider it entirely impossible).

 

To be more precise—I'm willing to believe in an upcoming Summilux-M 28 mm (after all, the 6-bit code has been discovered months ago) but not in a shift or tilt lens. But then, I have been wrong before.

 

If a shift/tilt lens really comes for the M system then I guess zoom M lenses won't be too far behind the next corner as well.

[philcycles]

To be more precise—I'm willing to believe in an upcoming Summilux-M 28 mm (after all, the 6-bit code has been discovered months ago) but not in a shift or tilt lens. But then, I have been wrong before.

 

If a shift/tilt lens really comes for the M system then I guess zoom M lenses won't be too far behind the next corner as well.

 

Well, there is already is a zoom M lens, the Tri Elmar.

And with the adapter thing in full swing I don't see Leica making TS lenses. There are plenty on the market both new and used. I use Nikon shift lenses-28 and 35-a lot on Sony and now Leica bodies for landscapes and they work great.

Of course there is an R shift lens.

Phil Brown

[CheshireCat]

I'm willing to believe in an upcoming Summilux-M 28 mm (after all, the 6-bit code has been discovered months ago) but not in a shift or tilt lens.

 

Seems odd to me as well. A 28 f/1.4 T&S would be huge and impossible to use with the rangefinder. In other words: against the M philosophy.

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[paulsydaus]

I'd like an M macro lens that can do at least 1:2 without the converter...

[rosuna]

The more interesting new lens would be a Tri-Elmar 21-24-28 f/4. Small and high performer.