Originally posted by G_Money And the hammer drops at $14,500. It reminds me a little of Spinal Tap. The seller wouldn't even take the lens out of the box to photograph it. Like Nigel Tufnel's Les Paul "It must never be played. Don't even look at it."
ROFL
To be fair the damn Leica lenses are near impossible to buy at retail. leica can't produce them fast enough (not just the 0.95 most of them) and you end up on what can be a very long wait list. so for the rich dentist who has to have it for his leica to one up his buddy...... you end up with this.
One good thing if you buy leica lenses (at least the modern ones) once you have it it doesn't drop in value for the most part so you can use it for a couple of years and get your cash back.
But they are a loony bunch the leica shooters.
I'd be happy with the Voigtlander F1.1 nokton and have an M9 and change left over versus the new price on the 0.95 (10,500 if you can wait for it to come into production again - when of course leica will raise the price to what the market has been bearing