Great News, Konica japan has announced a new lens for the Hexar RF (or Leica M); HEXAR RF?-HEXANON dual focal length LENS 21 - 35 / 3.4 -4

See for some info konica's website (for those of you who understand Japanese)

http://www.konica.co.jp/lineup/topics9.html

Apparantly the fact that the hexar is going to be discontinued was just a story!

I just hit a random button on their japanese website and found a few specifications: diafragm: 21mm : 1/3.4 - 19 35mm : 1/4 - 22 min. distance 0.8 m 11 elements in 10 groups filter 62 mm size 57 x 68 mm weight 295 grams Cheers,

Joop

-- Joop Mes (mes@nat.vu.nl), February 05, 2002

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I have a M-Hexanon 28/2.8 and am pretty impressed with its result. The new 21-35mm is one lens I'd really like to have, but I probably can only dream about it as, according to the Konica website, it's of limited production (800 units), meaning that it'll probably be released only in Japan, and is listed at about US$ 1,500!

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), February 09, 2002.

Stephen Gandy is taking order for this lens: http://www.came raquest.com/frames/4saleKonM.htm. Price: $1,550!

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), February 10, 2002.