Re: [Leica] 24mm, 75mm AND NOW 90MM

["Matt Morgan" <mattmorgan@pdseurope.co.uk>]

Paul,
I sent a reply (twice) to your message, as well as a reply to someone else,
that doesn't seem to have appeared on the list. Have you seen it? If not,
I'll try again.
Matt.

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>From: "Paul Bolam" <Paul@bolam67.freeserve.co.uk>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] 24mm, 75mm AND NOW 90MM
>Date: Mon, Aug 21, 2000, 12:54 am
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> Matt Morgan said:
>> Hmmm.....just when I was happy that all my lens choices had been made, now
>> I'm all undecided again:-)
>> The 75mm is a very expensive lens which is one consideration, but I do
> like
>> the idea of the extra speed and certainly the "razor thin DOF". I'll
>> probably still go with the new 90mm APO f2, but I would like to hear of
> any
>> experience with it. Next month's budget is taken up with the 24mm,
>> viewfinder and a Rapidwinder, so I'm about 6 weeks away from buying either
>> the 90 or the 75.
>
> Matt,
> I've just added the 90 APO to my armoury and whilst it is optically
> excellent, I would say it is not as good mechanically as the 75. This is for
> two reasons:-
>
> 1) the aperture ring on the 90 is loose, making it too easy to accidentally
> knock it away from the selected aperture (the aperture ring is right next to
> the focussing ring).
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> 2) the focus mount is stiff when focussed at about 1.2 meters.
> This makes it hard to make fine focus adjustments on close-ups. Granted,
> this
> may wear in with use, so I've taken to regularly twisting the mount to help
> it along.
>
> It is very likely that these characteristics are particular to my lens only
> but I thought I'd better let you know. Primarily, I bought the 90 to use on
> an M2 for portraiture so will often use the close focus range. I must
> emphasise though, that I would still buy this lens again, given the choice
> (especially as the M2 does not have 75 framelines).
>
> Bottom line though, if I had a preferrence between the 75 and 90, it would
> be the 75 as it focusses closer which is a distinct advantage in
> portraiture.
> Paul.
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