Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Herr offered: >>A couple of years ago on one list I contemplated out loud the > option of replacing the 90 'cron with 80 'lux, since I had just purchased > the 100 APO and the 90's aperture and focal lenght are so close to the 100 > APO. I was met with a flood of "DON'T DO IT, YOU'LL REGRET IT" responses > and if I'm not mistaken Ted was a member of the chorus. Not that the 80 > 'lux is a bad lens, but because of the 90 'cron's uniquely beautiful > 'fingerprint'. Even now the 90 is the lens I'll pick for family portraits > because of its 'fingerprint'.<<< Hi Doug, Gee was I one of the chorus? ;-) I don't recall the posts but I can't imagine saying not to buy the R80 1.4 Summilux as it's a beauty! And when you work wide open or near so, the main point of focus just pops off the page or screen with a drop dead beautiful background of colour blur. I've used mine since it became available way back when, actually bounced it off the concrete sidewalk In Edinburgh '86 at the Commonwealth Games, :-( Bad scene! :-( a great big ouch! Had it re-done and still use it regularly today as it creates a beautiful get rid of back grounds or "I suppose, softens them" much as in your portraits shown using the 90mm with the family. But I don't relate to the lens use terminology as you or Dan Colucci mention, I suppose I do it without thinking about it. Or the background is such a disaster of junk and distraction I know wide open I can get rid of it rather than thinking of the "fingerprint" as such. I imagine we're all on the same path and it's merely terminology that appears to create the confusion. ted