Leica finally hears us!

[Huss]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1695966-REG/leica_12481_lens_container.html

What took so long you cruel mistress?

 

[Sirius Glass]

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1695966-REG/leica_12481_lens_container.html

What took so long you cruel mistress?

Busy supplying slr owners with lenses, lens hoods and lens caps.

 

[Two23]

$70? Wow.


Kent in SD

 

[LimeyKeith]

$70 I'd need a reinforced container to keep it in.

 

[250swb]

Has nobody heard of Tupperware?

 

[AgX]

$70? Wow.

Get yourself instead a M-bayonet lens rear-cap and mount it into a container of YOUR choice.

 

[guangong]

Follow Agx advice. Use the plentiful plastic take out containers. Easy to stack. Although if you can spend $20,000 on a camera/ lens outfit, what’s $70?

 

[gone]

The perfect container for your dispensary purchases. Or a great whiskey glass. If you don't finish it, screw the lid on it for tomorrow.

Too high end for my Jim Beam though, proper etiquette says it should go into a small mason jar.

 

[AZD]

$60 of that is for the red dot, which self-conscious Leicaphiles will black out.

 

[madNbad]

So will TTA have a special edition plain brown paper box for their lenses?

 

[macfred]

It's from crystal glass I guess ...

 

[macfred]

Has nobody heard of Tupperware?

Those are great ...

 

[MattKing]

I guess these could be useful for retail Leica dealers and used camera stores .....

 

[Don_ih]

I guess these could be useful for retail Leica dealers and used camera stores .....

They're more useful for collectors. That way, they can have their lenses nicely dust-proofed and displayed with their cameras.

All the lens bubbles I have are scratched and cracked....

 

[Pieter12]

They're more useful for collectors. That way, they can have their lenses nicely dust-proofed and displayed with their cameras.

All the lens bubbles I have are scratched and cracked....

I would hope a serious collector would keep his precious gear in a glass-fronted case in a climate-conditioned room. No need for plastic (horrors!) containers.

 

[Don_ih]

I would hope a serious collector would keep his precious gear in a glass-fronted case in a climate-conditioned room. No need for plastic (horrors!) containers.

No no - these go inside the glass-fronted case. They're more for arranging. Think of how uniform the collection would look in a line of these.

 

[reddesert]

I hope it comes with a little packet of black-chrome-plated silica gel. Gold-plated would be too garish.

 

[Huss]

Not exactly new, or news.
Has been available from Leica dealers here in Australia since early May.

And... for the rabid red dot Germanophiles...

...it's made in China...

It says Made In Germany.

 

[Huss]

Stop the press! Unboxing video!

 

[albada]

I've always heard them called "lens bubbles". Is "lens containers" the correct term?

 

[AgX]

"Lens Bubble" is more descriptive. Whereas "Lens Container" may include the classic fake-leather tube-shaped case too.




(Be cautious with any wisdom of the non-native speaker...)

 

[250swb]

Personally I think this will generate a lot of interest in the Leica lens bubble and I look forward to an earnest discussion about Leica lens bubbles and their historical significance and cultural meaning. It'll make a change from arguing about bokeh.

 

[AgX]

With your ironic remark on their cultural meaning you at once made me think of glass bells used to cover a sculpture of Holy Mary at a sitting room, something I often came across in Belgium, but never over here.


(I use true glass and perspex bells to show a few of my cameras.)

 

[Huss]

Personally I think this will generate a lot of interest in the Leica lens bubble and I look forward to an earnest discussion about Leica lens bubbles and their historical significance and cultural meaning. It'll make a change from arguing about bokeh.

The bokeh taking a photo through the lens container is breathtaking.

 

[madNbad]

When can we expect the special edition with a titanium base and a Swarovski crystal dome?