Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:02 PM 9/16/1999 -0700, Jerald Rosenfeld wrote: >Here is the rest of the story. Gosh. Jerry, if you are going to have only a few Leica lenses, then you have to be surgical about which ones to buy. I rarely go wider than 50mm, so my present rig (1.4/35 non-ASPH Summilux, 1.4/50, 2/50 DR, 2.8/90 Elmarit, 2/90 non-ASPH/APO Summicron, 3.4/135 APO-Telyt, 4/200, 4.8/280, and 5/400 Telyts, with M6 and M3DS bodies) suits my purposes well. (I also have a 4.5/21 Zeiss Biogon in M mount and a slew of Carl Zeiss Jena and Russian lenses in LTM which I can convert to M easily enough.) For your purposes, I'd probably buy used and avoid the high entry fees of new gear. There are a LOT of fine used lenses out there. And I'd suggest a 90mm over a 135 for portrait work, too. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!