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Subject: [Leica] 90 Summicron (Canada): still front-focussing!
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:48:09 -0600
References: <CAFT=JcBv52yjgm0LJFbpv+Ny7mjWvjqiMHQ0CgaD-3fB-5eM2A@mail.gmail.com>

Mine is the same, but I bought it used maybe 20 years ago, so it has a
little more "character" than yours.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Peter Cheyne <peter.cheyne at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I sometimes use a 90 Tele-Elmarit. Here's a photo of my 90 T-E, is that the
> same model?:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/gp/geordiepete/V96122
>
> It's not only pocketable in a pair of jeans, it's even lighter than it
> looks. I sometimes wonder what the barrel is made of--some sort of
> poly-composite magic plasti-metal, I guess.
>
> Still, I wear jackets or coats with baggy pockets so that lenses like the
> Canadian 90 Summicron can come along. The 90 Tele-Elmarit is highly
> reliable in many situations. It also has the virtue of being rather
> predictable, and its colours are very modern. The Canadian Summicron is
> different in that respect. It has a very interesting 'pop', and the colours
> are a bit more pastel and, I don't know the right phrase, but I want to say
> something like chromatically separated.
>
> Peter
>
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Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA


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