HandeVision announces line of M-Mount lenses

[nano.anderson]

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The article at Leica Rumors.

 

Never heard of them before. Their website shows a whopping 1 camera lens available (as of tonight when I'm looking at their website, anyways).

 

Does anybody have any info about this or experience with their other lens? I'm excited to have more companies making M lenses.

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[pgk]

cheap M lenses

 

From their website it sounds to me as if these are lenses designed in Germany (well the optics anyway) and built in China. In itself this is absolutely fine. The real question is whether, at the prices quoted, tolerances and quality control are up to the requirements of the M rangefinder. I have a friend who is a lens designer and he tells me that these are now two expensive areas when it comes to high precision lenses. Design and manufacture are one thing; delivering viable lenses at low prices is something else. Good luck to them and I hope that they can.

 

[i wonder if we will eventually see an M type camera built by anyone other than Leica? Adapting lenses which can be used on a variety of camera probably makes a lot more economic sense but you never know.}

[luigi bertolotti]

Yes, is pleasant to see new lenses for M Mount announced (I took note of the Meyer Optik just few days ago) ... at least, a proof that our M cameras are still considered a presence in the market... and the price of Leica lenses is of help to draw some business plan on a line of M lenses...

Of course... quality and success to be verified as time goes on... such ventures (usually based on the assumption "German flavor / Chinese factory") can even die before a single lens arrives on the market...

[jaapv]

Indeed it can die, but these look like finished products, the companies behind it are well established (in case of the German one, a respected company well within the opto/mechanical complex)This one does not feel like (as we say) a one-day fly. Voigtlander will have some competition, maybe

[semi-ambivalent]

I wish them all the luck, but is that 50mm image a photoshop mock-up? The red dot is on the "wrong" side.

 

s-a

[Schrödinger's cat]

Good catch on the red dot.

 

The images do not look to my eye to be actual photographs.

 

Handevision strikes me as an odd sounding name for a lens.

[jaapv]

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Han = the manufacturer in China, De= Germany and vision is well, vision.

 

 

 

Walser is already selling their APS-C 85 mm lenses, and they are not cheap, between 1800-2100 Euro , which is more than the Zeiss Tele-Tessar, the M lenses may be even more expensive, who knows.

 

http://www.foto-walser.de/default.aspx?VL=handevision&TY=2&ST=5

[wattsy]

Not sure there is any untapped demand for a new range of F2.4 M mount lenses. The M mount is already very well served and I'd think these lenses would need to offer something compelling to have any prospect of commercial success.

 

A 50/F2.4 with a 49mm filter thread. Not something I could get excited about.

[gvaliquette]

The English in their press release is just TERRIBLE!  Even Google translate from Chinese to English would have done a better job.

 

Guy

[hiepphotog]

In the press announcement, these lenses were designed mainly for mirrorless. They did M-mount mainly to maximize the exposure. So I'm not sure if they really paid attention to the Summarit line.

[rsolomon]

Now that there are a few manufacturers exploring m mount i'd be willing to try  a 135 mm made by a 3rd party because its a lens id like to have but not a lens  i use often - and if i find myself using it more i can move up to the 135 APO.

[MarkP]

Pre-APO Leica 135mm lenses are much cheaper and offer image quality only just behind the APO lens.

[jmahto]

Now that there are a few manufacturers exploring m mount i'd be willing to try a 135 mm made by a 3rd party because its a lens id like to have but not a lens i use often - and if i find myself using it more i can move up to the 135 APO.

Leica 135 tele-elmar is more than enough as occasional lens for me.

[pico]

What I find interesting that people are exploring alternatives to Leica lenses, especially alternatives to the Karbe designs (which I deeply admire for his engineering).  There is certainly an aesthetic place for less than so-called perfection. It is something us large format people have explored for decades.

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[imants]

Their 40mm .95 lens was a shocker