Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, don't be embarrassed to have owned a Miranda outfit! When I was twelve in, oh forget when, my first SLR was a Miranda F, not a workhorse, but a good camera with many advanced features which wouldn't become standard throughout the industry for several more years (muffled mirror, interchangeable pentaprism). Sure it wasn't an M3, but I miss my Miranda F almost as much as my M3! Buzz > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Bowdle [SMTP:jbowdle@redbrick.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 9:08 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] 75mm/1.4 SUMMILUX experiences anyone? > > > > >Dear 'M' fans: > > > >Cutting my teeth (and financing my college in the sixties) on a pair of > M3 bodies w/35, 50, 90, 200 (Viso II) lenses, I went a little crazy in the > seventies whilst living in Japan and traded the whole lot for a--don't > hate me too much--Miranda outfit. (You should have seen their eyes behind > the counter on the Ginza when I walked in their door to trade lots of > Leica for Miranda in 1972!) > > > >I returned to sanity this year and bought a new M6 with 35mm/2.0 > SUMMICRON ASPH lens. I have since picked up a clean 135mm/4.0 TELE-ELMAR > and a new 21mm/2.8 ELMARIT during a fire sale by the local Leica dealer. > My next lens target is a new 75mm/1.4 SUMMILUX. Yes, I understand the > love affair with the 90mm and loved my 90mm/2.8 Elmarit in the sixties and > early seventies. But I think the 75mm holds some interesting > possibilities for my people style of photography. Plus, I don't want to > get both a 50mm and a 90mm and end up with FIVE lenses when I think FOUR > lenses will do. Also, fully half my pictures currently are captured with > the 35mm lens. > > > >Tell me, anyone had experience with the 75mm/1.4 lens? Let me hear your > story. Thanks! > > > >jb > ________________________________________________________________ > > Jack Bowdle > Sr. District Sales Manager > > Red Brick Systems, Inc. voice: 253-941-5100 > PO Box 54129 fax: 253-941-7442 > Redondo, WA 98054-0129 email: jbowdle@redbrick.com > http://www.redbrick.com pager: 800-320-5181 > ________________________________________________________________ >