Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Talking about the I bought a Russar LTM 20mm a while back, lovely nick, with a nice finder, for a reasonable price. However, I'm going to sell it, for the following reasons which I hope people here might find useful... 1. It's a sharp enough lens, except at the edges, where it's distractingly soft (or is it that the plane of focus is curved? In any case, it bothers me). 2. At 5.6 it's just too damn slow (also, it's not nice at 5.6, so its actual max aperture for me is f8). 3. The lack of rangefinder coupling, even though DOF is massive, is a pain. With lenses like this you often want to go really close, at which point DOF stops being massive, and focus becomes critical. - -- Johnny Deadman "The unfinished is nothing" - Frederick Amiel