Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You could keep your Summicron and get an Elmar-C (f4) for backpacking. - ---------- > From: Curt Miller <cmiller@berkshire.net> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: 90 lens recommendations anyone? > Date: April 25, 1997 5:46 PM > > Hi group - > > I'm looking for a 90/2.8 (M) - high end condition - and wonder what your > thoughts are (or if I missed some relevant recent posting if you could point > me there). I've gone the route of the earlier Summicron but it is too heavy > for serious gram-counting backpacking. Was thinking of either the 'skinny' > 4 element or 'fat' 5 element Tele-Elmarit. Anyone care to comment on the > relative merits of either (or, perhaps, compared to the earlier Elmarit)? I > have one of each - in mint condition - offered to me for $750 and $850, > respectively - and this doesn't bother me since both are as new (so needn't > tell me I can find them regularly for $175 at shows in mint minus condition > right next to the $850 Mint- M4-Ps). > > TIA, > > Curt > Nicht schlecht. Ich belege einen platz! > > Elizabeth Mei Wong > Henry Curtis Miller, M.P.A. > > Pittsfield, Massachusetts > In the Berkshires, next door to Tanglewood >