Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I haven't yet read all the replies you've received already, but I find the current 90/2.8 just right. Right size and weight. Right price (used, or new for that matter). Don't have to carry an extra shade in the bag. Plenty fast for most normal purposes. Tack sharp with a very pleasing signature, including the OOF areas. Prior to obtaining the 90/2.8, I favored the deservedly famous Nikkor 105/2.5 AIS around f4 or f5.6 - I like alot of "unflattering" detail and contrast in my "head and shoulders" type pics. The Leica 90/2.8 seems to deliver approx. the same detail and contrast wide open Not the sexiest lens among your choices, but a capable and pleasing shooter. Scott Jeffery Smith wrote: >I have every conceivable possible lens between 15mm and 50mm (with a lot of >weight skewed toward the 50mm end). However, I have only two lenses past >50...a 90/2.8 Hexanon (which is "very good") and a 75/2.5 Heliar (which is >"very good"). I would like to have something excellent longer than 50. It's >a length I don't use enough. Since Zeiss Ikon apparently stopped dead in >their tracks at 50, I pretty much have the following choices in Leica glass: > >75/1.4 >90/4 >90/2.8 >90/2 > >Of course, the faster the glass, the more expensive it is. I doubt that I >will be shooting smoky, dimly-lit pubs with this. So speed is not that much >of an object. Does one of these stand out among the others? If the fast >glass is the glass with hair-raising quality, I will consider [choke!] the >cost as secondary. > >BTW, 90mm seems to be the length LEAST used by LUGers, at least in PAW >postings. It isn't THAT long...... > >Jeffery Smith >New Orleans, LA >http://www.400tx.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)