Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/03

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Subject: Re: Older Elmarit 90mm
From: Lucien <100774.527@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 03 Mar 97 13:22:57 EST
 
C.M. Fortunko wrote:

<Incidentally, do any of you use the older 90mm Elmarit. I always wanted to
<have one for use on Bellows II, but could not justify paying the price. I
<don't understand why there is so much collector demand for this lens. I
<understand that its performance is not phenomenal.


In the Leica litterature of the time, the 90 Elmarit was described as a good
portrait lense, with a nice out-of-focus effect.

I've never tried it.


Lucien