So, this new LHSA MP3 & 50/1.4...?

[dave_chadderton]

Looks nice. Price is a killer though.

 

Is the 50/1.4 the same lens formula as the newest floating element 50/

1.4 Summilux?

 

Just curious (as I like the design).

[paul_chan4]

The 50mm 'lux is the current Asph version. Yeah, a down-to-earth killer both price and performance-wise.

[dave_chadderton]

Here's a pic of said MP3...

[terry_rory]

Where is the headphone socket?

[terry_rory]

"Yeah, a down-to-earth killer both price and performance-wise."

 

Really? At Robert Whites price of 4764 + 17.5 percent VAT that is 5597.70 GB pounds.

 

Hardly down to earth! (Not that any will make it further than a glass cabinet or safe so it does not matter what the performance will be as breaking the seal on the box will diminish the value.)

[craig_zeni]

Hmmm. That doesn't look like the 50/1.4 ASPH to me...the new 50/1.4 has a built in

hood.

[Rob F.]

"That doesn't look like the 50/1.4 ASPH to me..."

 

I think the idea is that the ASPH formula was put into the original Summilux mount. A nice looking lens barrel--I always liked the cross-hatching machined into it at the base, next to the bayonet mount. Lots of nice, fussy details to make it pretty. This is a modern Leica and lens in retro clothing. Current technology, old fashioned looks. Such things help keep Leica afloat, assuming enough people will buy it.

[icuneko]

Jeez Louise! Staring at those alternating black and chrome pics of the

LHSA MP3 and lens sent me into a seizure. When I came out of it, my

credit card was lying next to the keyboard, and my email had an "Order

Received on September ..." message in the in-box from Sucker Camera. What am I gonna tell my spouse?

[jerry_lehrer]

Dave-- I notice that the shutter speed dial is notched for an MR type

external exposure meter. I would have thought that an M6 type internal meter would be on it.

 

Jerry

[harvey_edelstein1]

For that price you get German engineering, but it should include the German engineer too for CLA shutter speed and meter calibration.

[dave_chadderton]

"but it should include the German engineer too"

 

Preferably, tall, blond and female.

 

As Trevor says, 5k ukp for that is some going ... I can't imagine there'll be many takers. Unless we raid Robert Whites ..??

[ulrik]

Wow, this camera also features the external frame counter of my Leica M2 (which is the only feature of the M2 camera where I would prefer the more common design because sometimes I manage to turn the counter dial accidently)

 

Ulrik.

[Rob F.]

Evidently there is something "pro" about a manual setting frame counter--else, why did they use it on the MP? Maybe the advantage is that you can reset it to keep track of how many frames are in a given sequence? It's not such a bad thing, it has never bothered me in 44 years of using my M2.

[Nowhereman]

Looks like it would be a nice camera if it had the M3/M6-type internal frame counter, the M6

rewind lever and the built-in lens hood of the newer Summiluxes.

 

--Mitch/Bangkok

[john15]

The cute way it changes back and forth between black paint and chrome makes it worth every panny.

[Rob F.]

Yeah, and the rewind knob turns by itself, and the serial number changes! Wow!

[eric_hurtado]

Just a little question about the original MP and MP3 design.. Why Leica , for a professional

camera, had chosen the"cheapest" M2 frame counter and not the M3 one's?

[bob haight]

Okay, so whats the scoop on this camera. Anybody know or have a link to information?

[Rob F.]

<a href="http://www.robertwhite.co.uk/leica.htm#LabelMP3">YE LINK</a>

[bob haight]

$8535.91 for the kit from Robert White. Ouch!

[ben z]

Look at the eyepiece mount on the silver camera. It's silver, looks like the old style threaded boss that doesn't need caulking. I wonder if that was something the LHSA requested or if Leica is just going back to the old way from now on.