Meyer Optik Gorlitz has announced a new version of their classic Meyer Optik Lydith 30mm f/3.5 lens. The lens can be ordered through the Kickstarter campaign. For a minimum $699, you get the Early Bird reward (apparently at the time of the announcement only five remain). For $749 or more you get the first batch, and you can get a lens with personal engraving for $899 or more.

It truly is a wonderful lens. I paid less than $100 for mine (see above picture and Meyer Optik Gorlitz 30mm Lydith f3.5) and it came with a functioning Exacta Varex IIa; a cosmetically challenged, but fully functional and lovely Carl Zeiss Jena 58mm f2 Biotar; an Exa 1; and a Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm f3.5 T Tessar.

Admittedly my is quite a lot older.

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