Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you'd like an SLR lens, you can't really go wrong with the 80, 90 pre-asph or 90 asph. You don't already have an R, so I would also consider the Nikkor AiS with an F3 or if you want more compact an FM2n, FE/2 or FM3a or, the 85/1.2 EF lens for you 1V. Short teles are pretty much all at least 'excellent' - the very best ones are 'outstanding'. Marty On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Tim Gray <tgray at 125px.com> wrote: > On Nov 07, 2010 at 09:43 AM +1030, Marty Deveney wrote: >> >> The 90 APO is very impressive, but at portrait distances it is less >> impressive than further away - the absence of a floating element >> starts to show and there is noticeable curvature of field. ?This was >> the motivation for the design used in the 75 Summicron, which focuses >> to 0.75 m and gets you a tighter crop, and is the M lens I'd recommend >> if you'd like a very modern rendering lens for portraits. > > The 75 Summicron is too close for me to my 50 ASPH. ?And too expensive. > ?I'd > never be able to figure out which one I wanted to use at the moment. > > While 80 is close to 75, 1.4 is faster than 2 (useful at times) and I would > imagine 80/1.4 is easier to focus on an SLR than is the 75 Summilux on M > (which is also too expensive for me). > > One other thing I hadn't mentioned. ?I would imagine my girlfriend will be > using this a bit if I get it. ?And she doesn't get along with rangefinders > at all. ?I think she takes good pictures with them, but she much prefers > using SLRs. ?Go figure. > >> I kept the Nikkor but returned the test sample 80 Summilux because I >> like the F3 better than any of the R cameras and I already have a >> bunch of other Nikon SLR lenses. > > Very nice pictures. ?Thanks for sharing those. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >