New 35 Summicron and maybe 28 Summilux?

[MarkP]

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Hmmm,

 

T + 2.0/23mm Summicron-T + a few accessories

or

new 2.0/35 Summicron-M + my M240 or Monochrom,

 

at what will probably at a similar price .

[adan]

Just a reminder that Leica has been known to change the barrels and cosmetics of lenses without actually changing the optics.

 

- Noctilux f/1 - originally had a separate round bayonet lens hood, later the built-in retractable square hood

- Summilux 75mm - originally had a separate hood and much thinner barrel (lighter weight, too); then a heavier, thicker barrel with a built-in retractable shade; then a minor revision to reduce weight when final assembly moved from Canada to Solms.

- 90 Summicron last pre-ASPH - originally issued with a built-in hood that covered the aperture ring when retracted; later re-engineered with thinner focus/aperture rings, fatter barrel, and a shorter hood to avoid the overlap.

 

So that might be an all-new 35 Summicron - or it might be the same old ASPH glass in a new barrel, that updates to the current screw-on metal hood paradigm.

[Guest Ansel_Adams]

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

 

Thats a lot better. Thanks. Have just comported it to my V5 and it is identical except the ring where the hood currently clips on.

[Guest Ansel_Adams]

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.

 

Yes, I think you nailed it. Thy probably jut put the rings on for aesthetic reasons. The focus of the image being the Leica T after all.

[Berth]

I think the point of the photograph is that the new 'T' can use all of Leica's M lenses, whatever their focal length or maximum aperture, whatever their generation, and that the 'T' is the latest chapter of a storied history.

 

That's why their new 'T' lenses are not the end of the story. Don't like them? Don't want auto focus? Don't buy them, plant a Noctilux on it instead.