No TL lens roadmap?

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36 minutes ago, lct said:

A compact 18/2 or 21/2 could interest me but i don't hold my breath.

Agree with these wishes would add a 14mm f2 or f2.8. Sigma is offering a 14 f1.4 but looking at the prototypes just too big.

 

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1 hour ago, nicci78 said:

What we know from Maike Harberts, Leica APS-C market leader, latest interview :

• TL line are pretty much complete : from 17 to 200mm equivalent focal length.
• Only made in Germany Summilux-TL are on the pipeline. Using same body as TL-35 and TL-60. Same industrial strategy as APO-Summicron-SL

In a distant future, we should be able to choose between a collection of small enough Summilux-TL line for APS-C or a collection of bigger APO-Summicron-SL for 24x36. What do you choose ? Quite small, fast lenses for half frame ? Or Quite big, not as fast lenses, but weathersealed for full frame ?

How the company that gave us all those wonderful (APO) Telyts can entertain the notion that a camera system should stop at 200 mm is quite beyond me. Have they sold their soul to Sigma? Come to think of it, let’s start pestering the L alliance for decent long glass And maybe an APS-C fisheye?

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[nicci78]

Only eyes for full frame sadly. 

Same thing with Sony, Canon and Nikon. And soon Panasonic ? 

Only Fujifilm and Ricoh/Pentax care about APS-C. But both have small medium format 33x44 as backup plan

[Guest]

A 14mm and 23mm Summilux would be fantastic. 

Not getting my hopes up though as Leica has only released 1 lens in the last 3 years and that was a 80g pancake one...

Edited September 10, 2019 by Guest

[Kim Dahl]

+1👍🏻

[rob_w]

+2

And a medium portrait lens

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On 8/31/2019 at 11:58 AM, LocalHero1953 said:

I find the 60mm TL fast to focus, as long as you set focusing to be within close-up or normal ranges. Given the whole range from infinity to 1 cm, the lens goes into panic mode. I don't have the 35mm TL to compare it with, but speed has never been a concern for me, and I use it mainly for people.

I now have a 60mm and set the Focus Limit, it is quick to focus