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PetKal wrote:
I am obviously not knowledgeable of the difficulties involved in the design and production of a high grade IQ lens with f/1.0 aperture, however, there is but a loose correlation between the development and production costs on one hand, and retail prices on the other. In other words, Canon will price their lenses as high as they could possibly get away with.
The only comparable lens currently in production is the Noctilux, and that is not an AF lens either. Although, of course, Canon is not Leica, I do not see Canon being particularly motivated to give an economy f/1.0 lens to the masses at a small fraction of the Noctilux price....Show more →
Well, Leica is by any means not the company that can serve as a reference wrt pricing. There is a more sensibly priced alternative to the current Noctilux that might give a hint of how much a lens like this might cost without the "red dot tax": http://www.photozone.de/leicam/861-slrmagic50t095 The ebay references below indicate the current price of about $3000 which in itself is, of course, exorbitantly high but a lot less than the price of the Noctilux. The most unsettling aspect of this situation is that, per Photozone's tests, the SLRMagic beats the Leica Noctilux on most IQ metrics (except distortion)!
So fetch me Tamron 45/1.8, I'm outta here.
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Nov 26, 2015 at 09:51 AM |
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