Hayek Posted June 5, 2016 Share #81 Â Posted June 5, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just to be selfish, I would like a 60/1.2 for the SL. Â The 58mm NOCT Nikkor's crop seemed easier to work portraiture than the 50/1.2 that I also owned at the time. Perhaps there's something to a wee bit more length for a 'normal'. Don't think a 60mm FL will happen except in a new Makro for the SL, and then probably Æ’/2 or slower. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FrozenInTime Posted June 5, 2016 Share #82  Posted June 5, 2016 Call me crazy, but pancake like compact scale/manual focus 28 or 35mm equivalent native lenses would make T camera line more appealing to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayek Posted June 5, 2016 Share #83 Â Posted June 5, 2016 Call me crazy, but pancake like compact scale/manual focus 28 or 35mm equivalent native lenses would make T camera line more appealing to me. Would make the M more appealing too. Those crazy MS Optical lenses look cool but they're finicky and the optics a bit idiosyncratic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRIago Posted June 6, 2016 Share #84 Â Posted June 6, 2016 Bring back the 50mm DR Summicron. Same optics, same construction. But only this time please make it work on digital bodies properly. I mean from the closest focus distance all the way up to infinity. Then please make black paint versions too. Â Â Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirke Posted June 6, 2016 Share #85 Â Posted June 6, 2016 a new 135 Â f/2 , Â 2.2 or 2.4 a 35mmm noctilux Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaR10 Posted June 8, 2016 Share #86 Â Posted June 8, 2016 Erick, Â I think you will get your wish for a 35mm Noctilux sooner than anyone would think. Â Stay tuned. Â As for 28mm M lenses...an ideal lens would be a 28mm Elmar f/3.4, flat field, no distortion, no CA, 46mm filter, metal screw hood...this would compliment the excellent 21mm and 24 mm M lenses. Â This new 28mm Elmar would be superb for landscape and architecture photography. Â Guess we will see..as I said...soon. Â r/ Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semi-ambivalent Posted June 8, 2016 Share #87 Â Posted June 8, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Erick, Â I think you will get your wish for a 35mm Noctilux sooner than anyone would think. Â Stay tuned. Â As for 28mm M lenses...an ideal lens would be a 28mm Elmar f/3.4, flat field, no distortion, no CA, 46mm filter, metal screw hood...this would compliment the excellent 21mm and 24 mm M lenses. Â This new 28mm Elmar would be superb for landscape and architecture photography. Â Guess we will see..as I said...soon. Â r/ Mark Interesting. Somewhere in his blog Puts says Leica's lenses are merging into two groups: High speed optics with excellent performance and lower speed designs with superlative performance (not quoting here). I suppose digital's high ISO capability has something to do with lower speeds being OK ,as well as people just being used to very large DOF (thanks phones). Â So yes, we will see, even if it's wrong, but that's minor; you have only two choices here. I'm curious as to why you say "soon". Â s-a Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
105012 Posted June 8, 2016 Share #88 Â Posted June 8, 2016 I'd be interested in a new 50mm Summicron Collapsible, e39, uses full width of the M mount, modern glass/coatings. Would be nice to be able to slip my M3 into my jacket pocket with a fast 50... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmx_2 Posted June 8, 2016 Share #89 Â Posted June 8, 2016 A Summicron 21 would be really nice! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted June 8, 2016 Share #90 Â Posted June 8, 2016 Humbug. If you can't do it with whatever is already out there, you will never be able to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaR10 Posted June 8, 2016 Share #91 Â Posted June 8, 2016 Semi-ambivalent, Â I wrote "soon" because there appears to more to Leica's "0.95" Edition than just a marketing scheme. Â Most likely you will see a M 35mm 0.95 Noctilux and perhaps a 75mm as well. Â Photokina is fast approaching and so we will just wait and see what the masters of Leica optics have in mind. r/Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayek Posted June 9, 2016 Share #92 Â Posted June 9, 2016 From a pure business standpoint, one can envision Bi-Elmars, a 16 Elmarit and a 75 Summilux before Leica muddlies existing sales with the likes of a 21 Summicron. But then again, last thing I would have guessed at was the "new" 35 Summicron ASPH optically unchanged from the 1994 model. Go figure... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhoh7 Posted June 9, 2016 Share #93 Â Posted June 9, 2016 a new 135 Â f/2 , Â 2.2 or 2.4 a 35mmm noctilux Exactly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cirke Posted June 9, 2016 Share #94  Posted June 9, 2016 Erick,  I think you will get your wish for a 35mm Noctilux sooner than anyone would think.  It has not to be soon I can wait for the Photokina Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neko Posted June 9, 2016 Share #95 Â Posted June 9, 2016 Â A macro 100 APO. Of course 1:1 magnification ratio and no diffraction at narrow apertures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted June 9, 2016 Share #96 Â Posted June 9, 2016 Oh, just go all the way with a smaller sensor using Leica's cine lenses, ya wimps. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem331 Posted June 10, 2016 Share #97  Posted June 10, 2016 One interesting question, which Hayek was hinting at, is what does it make business sense for Leica to sell?  Which lens would bring a healthy margin, recover development costs, not cannibalize other sales? Who is the prospective customer the lens will be sold to?  Hard to say without knowing the sales units of current lenses.  Maybe there is a focal length that is not selling well / needs to be made more attractive.  Not easy to think of an additional lens that people would really need, and I think the really fancy noctilux type lenses will not have enough market to recover investment.  But then again, I never thought all the wideangle summiluxes would be a success.  I agree Bi-Elmars could be a success, I also think that vintage type relatively small lenses  (summarons etc) might sell well, but I am not sure.  Which lenses do you guys think are bringing in the money for Leica?  The summarits, the summiluxes, the more traditional summicrons or the really high price range ones - Noctiluxes, 50 APO etc? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem331 Posted June 10, 2016 Share #98  Posted June 10, 2016 Interesting how Leica classifies lenses on its web page:  There are three categories:  High speed prime lenses -this includes anything that is f2 or faster except for the 35mm and 50mm f2 lenses  Fast and compact lenses -anything slower than f2 plus the 35mm and 50mm f2 lenses  Zoom lenses (yes in plural) - only the Tri-Elmar   I can not believe that this is how Leica thinks about its lens family. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted June 10, 2016 Share #99 Â Posted June 10, 2016 With the greatest respect, these questions risk pulling the thread off the OP's topic. Â Might the new questions be better served in their own thread? Â Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem331 Posted June 10, 2016 Share #100  Posted June 10, 2016 you are absolutely right Pete. Happy for the moderators to move.  Sometimes it is difficult to know where a thread leads to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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