Leica Summarit-M，Change of Leica

Leica was issued four lens called Summarit-M，Erwin Puts bewrited a report to talk about the design and the change of  product strategy with the  new Leica lens.

In fact, Leica as the best of  lens factory for 135 area give a bad account of oneself in this two years.The price of the lens remain high.Even the lens Summarit-M come out with the 'good price for the good lens',still very expansive.

As we can see,the price letting Leica far away from the photographer now.

What ever,Leica still my favorite.

1.The new Summarit-M continue Leica len's pursue of quality and standard.From the imaging,the test sounds that,Summarit-M as good as Summicron.

2.Leica still face to the trouble of economic globalization，it is very hard for Leica to join into the system of economic globalization because of the culture history of Euro.Resolve the problem of cost become a big problem.
3.Summarit-M of Leica is design for the M8 and M7.Go with Summarit-M, M8 and M7 can more convenient to put in to the hand bag.

4.The biggest competitor of new Summarit-M lens are not Zeiss or Cosina，but the Summicron of Leica in the Second-hand Market.

5..The new Summarit-M lens are improve from the old Summicron lens，you can find that from the price of  them：

Summicron 35 = 34.5; 53; E39; 255 gr; 0.7 meter; Euro 2150
Summarit 35 = 34.0; 51.4; E39; 220 gr; 0.8 meter; Euro 1250
Summicron 50 = 43.5; 53; E39; 240 gr; 0.7 meter; Euro 1450
Summarit 50 = 33.0; 51.5; E39; 230 gr; 0.8 meter; Euro 1000
Summicron 75 = 66.8; 58; E49; 430 gr; 0.7 meter; Ero 2395
Summarit 75 = 60.5; 55; E46; 345 gr; 0.9 meter; Euro 1250
Summicron 90 = 78; 64; E55; 500 gr; 1 meter; Euro 2595
Summarit 90 = 66.5; 55; E46; 360 gr; 1 meter; Euro 1250

The more evaluating comes from
http://www.leica.org.cn/post/526/