andybarton Posted April 24, 2014 Share #1 Â Posted April 24, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) As shared by @bybrett via Twitter, this photo of the new T appears to have two new lenses in the family. Â Â Â https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmAOPPhCIAAcAhF.png:large Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 24, 2014 Posted April 24, 2014 Hi andybarton, Take a look here New 35 Summicron and maybe 28 Summilux?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
IWC Doppel Posted April 24, 2014 Share #2 Â Posted April 24, 2014 Awesome spot on the least next to the Nocti ! Â Some of the more fixed hood wide lenses loo less familiar without hoods, the 24 at the back right looks different too ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted April 25, 2014 Share #3 Â Posted April 25, 2014 Certainly looks that way, and the 90mm at the back is sitting on some sort of new macro adapter, maybe an OUFRO for the 21st century. Â Looks like the 28mm Elmarit has gone as well. Reminds me on one of those mafia films where family members learn of their fate by whether they are included in a family portrait... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rramesh Posted April 25, 2014 Share #4 Â Posted April 25, 2014 Clearly the 28 on the right is a Summicron. If the one on the left is the new 28 Summilux, while I see the f/1.4 mark, I am surprised it goes to f/22. Â One more of the fine Elmarits retired. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnfell Posted April 25, 2014 Share #5 Â Posted April 25, 2014 Indeed it looks like a new summicron, i can even see the serial number starting with 4281xxx, but the 28 next to it is a Elmarit 2.8 from the 90s. The f/2.8 mark is visible. This one had a huge and ungainly hood so I understand perfectly well that they removed it from the shot. Â I would not take this for a "official" family shot as it does not include all current lenses. 34 lux in the back for example, is previous version as well. Â Now the 90 on the adapter is interesting, It does not look like the 90 macro, but being as far back in the picture as it is, it could very well be an R lens on R/M adapter. The image might be photoshopped and not to exact scale as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnfell Posted April 25, 2014 Share #6 Â Posted April 25, 2014 but the 28 next to it is a Elmarit 2.8 from the 90s. Â Pretty sure it's this one: http://www.leicashop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/2/3/23186_2.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted April 25, 2014 Share #7  Posted April 25, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) Certainly looks that way, and the 90mm at the back is sitting on some sort of new macro adapter, maybe an OUFRO for the 21st century. Looks like the 28mm Elmarit has gone as well. Reminds me on one of those mafia films where family members learn of their fate by whether they are included in a family portrait...  Not sure about the lack of the 28 Elmarit, there is no 90 APO either Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ansel_Adams Posted April 25, 2014 Share #8 Â Posted April 25, 2014 If that is a new summicron it seems to have grown even larger than the ASPH.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 25, 2014 Share #9  Posted April 25, 2014 Certainly looks that way, and the 90mm at the back is sitting on some sort of new macro adapter, maybe an OUFRO for the 21st century. Looks like the 28mm Elmarit has gone as well. Reminds me on one of those mafia films where family members learn of their fate by whether they are included in a family portrait...  That 90 APO was whacked for disrespectin' the family! Concrete lens caps, I hear. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted April 25, 2014 Share #10 Â Posted April 25, 2014 No it isn't a new Summicron. Apart from anything else there is no way Leica would be using that old bayonet system for the lens hood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ansel_Adams Posted April 25, 2014 Share #11 Â Posted April 25, 2014 No it isn't a new Summicron. Apart from anything else there is no way Leica would be using that old bayonet system for the lens hood. Â You reckon? They used an old screw thread for the modern Summarit 35 hood so I guess anything is possible right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted April 25, 2014 Share #12  Posted April 25, 2014 You reckon? They used an old screw thread for the modern Summarit 35 hood so I guess anything is possible right?  The Summarit screw thread is consistent with all the recent lens introductions – 35 Summilux FLE, 21 Super Elmar, etc. As far as I know, no recent lens introduction (last 5 years) has featured a tabbed clip on or bayonet-fit hood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ansel_Adams Posted April 25, 2014 Share #13  Posted April 25, 2014 The Summarit screw thread is consistent with all the recent lens introductions – 35 Summilux FLE, 21 Super Elmar, etc. As far as I know, no recent lens introduction (last 5 years) has featured a tabbed clip on or bayonet-fit hood.  Yes, but that wasn't the point I was making. The point is Leica are quite prepared to re-introduce old designs, or indeed create new ones, if they want to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted April 25, 2014 Share #14 Â Posted April 25, 2014 Yes, but that wasn't the point I was making. The point is Leica are quite prepared to re-introduce old designs, or indeed create new ones, if they want to. Â I'm not an "old" lens connoisseur but I thought the current threaded hoods (with the thread on the outside of the barrel) are a new design and not a rehash of something used by Leica before? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ansel_Adams Posted April 25, 2014 Share #15 Â Posted April 25, 2014 From the image above its hard to tell whether this new Cron has a screw off ring, like the Summarit, or whether it will use a bayonet or clip on hood. I don't know how people are reading the serial numbers from these images. When I zoom in they just get blurry... Regardless, my point was simply that Leica have shown that they will re-introduce old designs if they need to. It is not a reason to discount it. Â It does seem odd that Leica would include a lens in a marketing image that they don't intend to sell? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted April 25, 2014 Share #16 Â Posted April 25, 2014 Not really, just a display of Backwards compatibility. Â Stirred up the internet too. Clever don't you think? I would bet it was intentional given it is the most rumoured replaced lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ansel_Adams Posted April 25, 2014 Share #17  Posted April 25, 2014 Not really, just a display of Backwards compatibility. Stirred up the internet too. Clever don't you think? I would bet it was intentional given it is the most rumoured replaced lenses.  Backwards compatibility with a lens that doesn't exist?  I guess it could just be an old dummy prototype. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted April 25, 2014 Share #18  Posted April 25, 2014 A better image showing the 'new' 35 and what does look like an f2.8 28mm lens, so no summilux  New version of the Leica 35mm f/2.0 Summicron M lens leaked in press photo? | Leica News & Rumors Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted April 25, 2014 Share #19  Posted April 25, 2014 Some of the M lenses in the background of that picture are wearing unusual "decoration rings"—i. e. those rings screwed on the lens when the screw-on hood is removed, to protect the threads.  These protection rings are included with the lens in the case of the Summarit-M lenses (instead of a hood which must be purchased as an extra) and the Summilux-M 35 mm Asph (in addition to the hood which is included). But there are no "decoration rings" included with the 21 mm and 24 mm Summilux, Elmar-M 24 mm, Super-Elmar-M 21 mm Asph, Summicron-M 35 mm Asph, Tri-Elmar-M 16-18-21 mm Asph etc ... still, in the picture above these lenses do wear decoration rings—probably custom-made— which give them unfamiliar appearances.  The 28 mm lens next to the Noctilux is just an older non-asph Elmarit-M. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick_S Posted April 25, 2014 Share #20 Â Posted April 25, 2014 A better image showing the 'new' 35 ... To me that looks like a 46mm filter thread (by comparing with the adjacent lenses), which would be a pity if it really is a replacement 35mm Summicron lens. Â Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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