[toni-a]

Wait a minute, is it April fools' day already?

I just cannot fathom how a lens featuring such horrendous IQ could possibly sell for more than say, what? 10 bucks?

Never mind the utterly ridiculous price tag. Truly pathetic.

One has to wonder what the marketing department is currently smoking at Leica...

That would be quite an accomplishment if they even manage to sell more than half a dozen of these worldwide ;-)

Totally agree with you, but you will find  collectors who would buy the lens just for the name, at such a price selling half a dozen will already cover the costs, if similar projects didn't succeed they wouldn't do it, go check the yashica new project, from what I read it's among the worst on the market, inferior to phones and you have to change the "digital film" to change settings like ISO without mentioning other limitations, yet many are buying