Leica apparently got tired of designing sharp high-performance lenses and decided to charge the same price for a very bad lens.

I like it. It's different.

I only buy this lens for U$90 or less, for resell it to the Leicafans by U$5,000. This is literally garbage and I love Leica lens.

With old and cheap lenses you get an organic and better images.

Seems like a collector item, or a special case lens that can be mostly replicated with an image filter.. but perhaps it's more useful for those shooting on actual film

Its a joke.

@caveport

it is April 2nd

After laughing at the price I looked at the portrait shots you linked, some nice ones there, I like the "swirly bokeh" (serious technical term) backgrounds in some of the shots, others just looked like wide open shots that were too soft....then I laughed at the price some more