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Leica Summilux-C Primes on NAB 2010 BandPro Randy Wedik interview

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Leica Summilux-C Prime lenses on NAB 2010 BandPro Randy Wedick interview on Vimeo by Emmanuel Pampuri*Les Machineurs

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Great Shots! Thanks for posting!
 
A slot for a rear diffusion net. Doesn't that mean for drop in filters, little circular round glass filters? Or is a spot for a net a different thing?
 
Well, we have a price now, $175,000 for a set of eight. A little ridiculous if you ask me. Leica is great and all but seriously, what makes these that much better than Red lenses other than the fact that they are a stop faster? I know, hand made, titanium... honestly, these are being way way marked up just for the Leica name, reminds me is high fashion prices, $120,000 for a purse. For this price, they better be made by the hand of God himself. I can buy a full set of Red Pro Primes for the cost of one of these.
 
Andrew Rieger said:
Well, we have a price now, $175,000 for a set of eight. A little ridiculous if you ask me. Leica is great and all but seriously, what makes these that much better than Red lenses other than the fact that they are a stop faster? I know, hand made, titanium... honestly, these are being way way marked up just for the Leica name, reminds me is high fashion prices, $120,000 for a purse. For this price, they better be made by the hand of God himself. I can buy a full set of Red Pro Primes for the cost of one of these.
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That's why you rent them!:sifone:
 
Andrew Rieger said:
Well, we have a price now, $175,000 for a set of eight. A little ridiculous if you ask me. Leica is great and all but seriously, what makes these that much better than Red lenses other than the fact that they are a stop faster? I know, hand made, titanium... honestly, these are being way way marked up just for the Leica name, reminds me is high fashion prices, $120,000 for a purse. For this price, they better be made by the hand of God himself. I can buy a full set of Red Pro Primes for the cost of one of these.
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And to me it's still not clear what makes these so much better than the leica stills lenses that you have to pay tens of thousands more; I understand the focus ring is different, aperture works differently, somebody was talking about a difference in weight; so?
 
FYI, I was told about 11:00 AM today by BandPro that they had sold 18 of the 20 sets that they had available for 2010. Est delivery is >Oct.
 
FreshDV NAB 2010 - Leica Lenses and Rotolight (NAB 2010 video) >>>

Price: 132000 Euro or US$178000 for the set of 8 lenses.

16500 Euro or 22,225.50 US Dollar (USD) per lens.

Also BandPro wrote me at email that:

"At the moment the lenses are only available as a full set and individual lens purchase is not planned for some time."
 
I guess red has spoiled all of us into the idea that we can reasonably afford all our own gear. Other manufacturers have not adopted this model. Look at Sony and Arri when it comes cameras. Just because we paid a fortune for cameras in the past does not mean we need to know. For Arri and Leica, it really comes down to pride. They don't want to price competitively because they don't have to, they have an established brand name that will draw customers no matter what, but as Red and it's model becomes more industry accepted, even Leica and Arri diehards will scratch their heads wondering why they are paying more than everyone else. The funny thing is, in the photography world, Leica's are enthusiast cameras and toys for art photographers. Toys for rich boys, not the workhorses they used to be. You can get the same results out of Pro Nikon and Canon gear for 1/3 the cost. I view modern Leica's the same way I view expensive purses, way more expensive than they need to be. Leica's used to be more available to everyday photographers which is how my dad bought a couple which I use today. He could never afford their new cameras and lenses today.
 
With the set of 5 lenses 16, 21, 25, 35, 50, 75 T1.4 lightweight 1.6-1.8kg (3.5-4.0 lbs) that would costs

you about 82500 Euro or 111,127.50 US Dollar (USD) that is actually a price range of one high quality

fast zoom like Fujinon 18-85 mm / T2.0 that has weight 6.9kg (15.2lbs).

Also to repeat again that BandPro wrote me at email that:

"At the moment the lenses are only available as a full set and individual lens purchase is not planned for some time."

With each of this lightweight prime lens on very soon upcoming lightweight EPIC you could probably comfortably ride and fly the newest

Steadicam Tango stabilizer in many low and available light situations that with heavy zoom or other heavy fast primes you can't.

That's something revolutionary for the future filmmaking and storytelling.

Also don't forget that you'll get a Panavision like sort of quality images from those new Leica prime lenses.
 
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