Re: [Leica] new Asph 90

["Tom Wyse" <tmwyse@centuryinter.net>]

Dan,
    I use the same 90/2  with my M3 and also love the thing, I find recently
that I am using it far more than most of the others and I am also a nut for
the older III series, I have a
b, c, and f and use them all.  I have a fair group of lenses, 35, 50 Summar
and Sumarit f2, , 90 and 135.  I recently took Marc's advise and picked up
the Jupiter 35. 50 and 85.   Now it is a task of shooting all of them and
finding the strengths and weakness of each, ( a delightful task in
itself...)  I noticed in the last week or so in reply to some of your posts
that there are several of us who seem to enjoy the older stuff.  Maybe we
shouldn't tell the rest of them  :-)    let them buy all the new stuff and
they will dump the other ...
tom
- -----Original Message-----
From: Dan Post <dwpost@email.msn.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] new Asph 90

>IMHO- The 90/f2 Summicron, old version, in fact mine was originally a two
>cam model, is a perfectly wonderful lens. Excellent performance on all
>counts of sharpness, color and 'bokeh'. I am tone deaf, so I can get by
with
>less than the best music system, but even with a sharp eye... to me it is
>hard to see the differences in image quality of most Leitz lenses unless
you
>have the images side by side and have a loupe- hardly the way I look at
>photos normally. If the new aspheric is superior, so be it. I for one am
>happy with the older version. Then again, I am discovering the beauty of
LTM
>Leicas and the old lenses that made Leica famous to begin with!
>The upside for us old fogies is that the rush for the newest lens will make
>the older versions available to a greater number of users! I look forward
to
>seeing what some of the 'newbies' make of the opportunity!
>Dan
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>dwpost@msn.com
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