Tsubasa Swallow 35mm f/2 lens for Leica M mount

[froyd]

You are kidding, right? How many choices do you need? Leica, Zeiss, Voightlander, and all of the various screw mount lenses from the past. Zeiss alone has three modern offerings, the Biogon f/2, Biogon f/2.8 and the Distagon f/1.4.

The new lens from Hawks is horribly overpriced. Perhaps what you meant was you needed more overpriced choices. 😉

Dead serious. Ihope they tackle 50s next. 😛

 

[rfaspen]

Personally, I'm always glad to see new lenses in M mount. And its particularly interesting when they aren't from one of "The 3" (zeiss, leica, CV). I mean, who else is offering lenses for Leica (M or LTM)? Lomo offers the J3+ and minitar, SLR Magic used to offer a 50/0.95, but I can't think of any others.

Regardless, I'm not interested in this one. I already have a Biogon f/2 and a few other 35's. Now, if it were a great performer and the size of a v4 summicron.... I might be piqued. That's something I think I'd like (the Biogon is sort of big). Then I'd have to weigh the price tag

 

[Doug]

Interesting, especially on how the company sees its market. I have an 8-element 35mm f/2 in M mount... a version 1 Summicron that I bought new in July 1967 at retail from a camera shop in downtown Seattle... price was $163.50. To put that in perspective, it was about 1 week's pay for me as a young draftsman at Boeing.

Good luck to Tsubasa!

 

[james.liam]

Crazy pricing aside (maybe they meant Yuan instead of USD), anyone have a clue what sort of performance one might expect from the Swallow?

 

[iaeaix]

The price is close to a Summicron 35 V4 and higher than The price I sold my chrome ASPH. With that price, I can only imaging I would possibly consider buying it AFTER I have had all 35mm M lens I would want, and after some years I have used enough all those lens, one day I feel bored, want to try something new for fun for maybe a few day.
Of course, this was assumed I have that money to possess all the 35mm M lens I want.


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