Ok, so I like this site a lot; I find I'm coming here just about every day. I wanted to wait until my new lens was "on the way" before posting this. But I'm all about spreading the love.

My quest for the 25mm Summilux F 1.4 ended this week. I was very fed up with ebay (Japan only, and $100-$150 over retail) and none of the major players having them in stock.

I forget which website I was on, but I found a site in Canada that has them *IN STOCK*. I called and spoke to a guy there and he said he was looking at 10-15 of them on the shelf.

The place is in Canada, eh. But that's just fine with me. Price= $589 Canadian plus shipping, which is about $600 U.S. Right around retail.

Anyway, enjoy guys. Good luck!

Aden Camera



Shawn - Helping Micro thirds forum members clean out their wallet since July 2011 (tm)

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Canon 5d Mark III, 70-200 USM II, 85 1.8, Tamron 24-70 USD VC, Sigma 35 1.4. Wife = Sony RX-100

Also, they shipped mine out the same day and sent me a Canadian post tracking information. I ordered mine Tuesday afternoon and by tonight (Thursday) it shows "2011/09/01 05:30 International shipment has arrived in the destination country"

:)

This may not be as popular as the $379 GF2 + 14mm thread, but I try.

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Canon 5d Mark III, 70-200 USM II, 85 1.8, Tamron 24-70 USD VC, Sigma 35 1.4. Wife = Sony RX-100

Here in Calgary, Canada, I went by 3 shops yesterday and they all had it in stock for under $600 , and found two stores had e-p3 and E-Pl3 in stock as well. No oly 45mm until next week though.

Wow, lucky Canadians! :)

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OMD
14/2.5 17/1.8 17/2.8 25/1.4 45/1.8 75/1.8 12-50 14-150
My FlickR!

It's not that were so lucky, there just aren't as many m43 shooters up here, so stock doesn't fly off the shelves like it does south of the border. The only other m4/3 shooter I've seen, is the guy who bought my e-pl1.

Strangely, over here in the US, all the big shops still list the PL25 as pre-orders, as if they haven't received any yet.

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OMD
14/2.5 17/1.8 17/2.8 25/1.4 45/1.8 75/1.8 12-50 14-150
My FlickR!

My wife just called, and my Summilux has been delivered! :)

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Canon 5d Mark III, 70-200 USM II, 85 1.8, Tamron 24-70 USD VC, Sigma 35 1.4. Wife = Sony RX-100

Very tempted on this...can't decide!

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Aden is probably my favourite supplier. Their prices are the lowest (more often than not) and if you check online from time to time, they'll have good sale prices.

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Pany GF1 (2x), GF2, LVF-1, 14 f2.5, 20mm f1.7, 14-140mm f4-5.8, 45-200mm f4-5.6
Oly E-P1, FL-14, 9-18mm f4-5.6, 14-42mm f3.5-5.6, 40-150mm f4-5.6
Lensbaby Composer w Tilt Transformer
Adapted lenses: Nikkor 28-80mm f3.5-5.6, 50mm Series E; Canon FD 28mm f2, 50mm f1.2, 85mm f1.8 and 135mm f2.5; Leitz 90mm f2 Summicron-M, 24mm f2.8 Elmarit-R, 35-70mm f3.5 Vario-Elmar-R, 50mm f2 Summicron-R, 135mm f2.8 Elmarit-R, 40mm f2 Summicron-C; Leica D Vario-Elmarit 14-50mm f/2.8-3.5; Vivitar 75-205mm

Just a data point - I got charged $19.xx by my Visa for a "foreign transaction fee".

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Canon 5d Mark III, 70-200 USM II, 85 1.8, Tamron 24-70 USD VC, Sigma 35 1.4. Wife = Sony RX-100