Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/08
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> I need your advice.
> What is the best 35mm bayonet mount leica lens for you? (also considering
> the oldest ones).
> And the 90mm.?
> Thanks a lot.
> David Berga
> davidb@bcn.servicom.es
Hi -
What's BEST?
Affordable? Widest aperture? Closest focusing?
I've read that Leica lenses do have "character"
(see the article "The Leica Mystique" written by Carl
Weese in the July/August 1995 issue of _Darkroom
and Creative Camera Techniques_).
I only own the 35/f1.4 Summilux and 90/f2.8 Elmarit
because I wanted a fast wide-angle and that's what I
happen to find and could afford. So I'm uniquely
unqualified to give you any advice. I suspect that
my photography is adapting to the characteristics
and "character"of these lenses. I don't know. I
just use them as much as I can and discover what
works for me and what doesn't.
-- Wolfgang Sachse
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Wolfgang Sachse Cornell University
sachse@msc.cornell.edu http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~sachse
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Replied: 10 Feb 96 16:09