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Subject: [Leica] A comment on a few lens wide open...
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:45:16 -0700
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I have a few on my flash gallery, but I will upload some in the next couple
days for you to check out.

For my needs, it's a much better lens than the 90/2 AA, but I will need to
keep the 75 lux for portrait work :-)

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> >I had a 90/2 AA once (this 85/2 is
> >a replacement), and I don't recall it being this sharp at this close
> >distance (5 feet).
>
> The 90 AA is a fairly simple design.  Inside 2m focus distance its
> performance drops noticeably, particularly wide open.  The Zeiss 85 is
> a much more recent design and has a floating element, like the Leica
> 75/2, to improve close-distance performance.  Can you post some photos
> from the 85 Richard?  I'm interested to see what photos from it look
> like.
>
> Marty
>
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