Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hay Dan Whip a Zeiss Softar on the new 90 and now you got the best of both worlds. D Khong wrote: > > Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >You are in luck, since Leica has just come out with a fabulous new 90mm > >Summicron Apo Asph. This means two things: you can either buy this lens > >and have the very best; or if you can live with a lens that is one stop > >slower, you can buy a second-hand 90mm Elmarit, also an excellent lens > >which is quite inexpensive now (relatively speaking, we are talking Leica > >after all). > > If the new 90 Summicron GASPH-APO is as sharp and better corrected as > claimed, I'd be the first to balk at using it for portraits. Reason? While > the buffs on one side of the shutter curtain would love to have the > priviledge of having the sharpest lens that money can buy, their subjects > on the other side would squirm at seeing their every blemish, pock mark, > zit and what have you recorded on film for posterity. > > In my experience, female subjects just love to see their pictures taken > with my humble Kodak Xenon 50/2.8 lens on a 1954 Retina IIc (priced at only > $200) purely because the images produced with this lens are so "flattering" > compared to the harsh 50 summicron of current vintage. > > Dan K. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Modernisation is not necessarily in the best interest of mankind. > ============================================================================ >