new 15mm Heliar M-mount

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The website has a place where you can choose English or German.

I just leave my 15mm lens set at one meter all the time. I can't see much sense in rangefinder coupling. Once you have a lens that CAN be rangefinder focused most people would find themselves feeling COMPELLED to use the rangefinder. It's about impossible to get an out of focus picture with that lens.
 
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And it will hopefully have the new recessed mount (as seen on the Ultron 28/2) that makes self-coding for the M8 a breeze!
Accepts filters, can be coded, new hood, new M mount...
Very very cool!
 
Good that Cosina doesn't just sit back on their haunches knowing that they probably already have the best 15mm rangefinder lens on the market ... M mount is good and that hood looks really cool!

I can't say I'd consider replacing a lens that I'm already totally satisfied with though!
 
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Today I stumbled across that new lens:

http://www.voigtlaender.de/cms/voigtlaender/voigtlaender_cms.nsf/id/pa_fdih7pyk8x.html

It finally can take 52mm filters, has a bigger hood and is rangefinder coupled. Wow...

It's being sold on German eBay already for 439 EUR.

I was not aware that the 15mm would be reissued as an M-mount design. Did I miss a forum post? Anyone as surprised as me about that one?
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The website you quote says delivery in May. I am wondering about the ebay offer...
 
I am wondering about the ebay offer...
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This e**y-offer is prob. from Mundus - a photo dealer who sells usually a package "LTM-lenses + M-adapter" as M-Lens.
"[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]inclusive Sucher , incl. M-Bayonett durch Bayonettring ,codierfähig für Leica M8, ohne Aussparung"[/FONT]
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The price would also interest me - because as far as I see the new lens won´t include a 15mm finder (worth about 149€)

PS: there is another offer for 429 - which seems to be the new one.
Weltneuheit mit Leica M-Bajonett für alle Leica M Kameras auch M8, sowie Lumix G1​
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Very good strategy to raise prices up as the optical formula stays the same. Just Cosmetics + coupling. If the finder is not part of the package anymore like with the 21mm M (?), that means price up by 60% otherwise 25%.
 
I actually like the LTM version - I can use it on more cameras. The 15 on a Leica IIIa is a tidy little package; ditto the Bessa-T. However, stepping back a moment, the thing I most like about Mr. K's approach to his product line is that every single thing he has produced has made life more interesting for RF users and an M-mount 15mm lens is no exception. Agree that RF coupling of a lens this wide is not a show stopper one way or the other.

BTW, I'm getting a 404 on the links to the lens pix above . . .

Ben Marks
 
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