[Leica] Leica SL 90-280 Lens

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I think when you bring a Leica on a vacation or head out for a day with it it?s a Leica. It?s not a monster camera and lens kit.  Leica is all about elegant compactness; minus the R system monsters.
Me I?d call a 4 pound 9 inch long lens with an 82mm filter thread a monster lens.. What the  Leica 90-280mm APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL is not is a walkabout lens for a walkabout camera. It weighs twice my heaviest lens a 300mm f/4.5  AI which I can hardly lift and should come with balloons but does have a tripod foot so I could put it on a monopod or tripod even. The Vario-Elmarit does have a removable tripod foot which stops it from looking like the odd cylinder it is. 23 elements in 17 moving groups yes you know you have your camera with you. Not for a second do you ever think you?d left  it at home.
Paul?s classic pancake 40mm CS Heliar 2.8  is an ultimate walkabout. A lens which can make your camera slide into a very small bag or even a coat pocket. A lens which imperceptibly adds to the total weight of a camera. A lens with the Leica M mindset going for it. For a second there you can think you left it at home.
Monster glass I use when I?m going somewhere to get a shot which has to come out and it?s in my calendar to get it. Then when I get the shot I go home and put it back in the Pelican case. Then I head out for the rest of the day with a compact ?kit? as the Brits say. I need to be able to walk in a straight line and not get a crick in my neck. I have a 35,50 or 85 on my camera all 1.8?s.








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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 1/8/18, 2:14 PM, "LUG on behalf of Paul Roark" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

    I keep looking at weight also (in several respects).
    
    The 40mm Voigtlander Heliar f/2.8, 4.66 oz (132 g) (M mount, but not
    including focusing)  is my current lightest weight walk about lens.
    
    https://www.dpreview.com/products/voigtlander/lenses/voigtlander_40mm_2p8_heliar
    
    
    (I've become fond of the collapsibles after living with the 90mm
    Macro-Elmar f/4 for a year.  The 40mm seems like a better mid-range than
    the 50mm Elmar-M collapsible that I also have.  They do have optical
    compromises.)
    
    Paul
    www.PaulRoark.com
    
    On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
    
    > LUG:
    >
    > Does anybody here have or use this lens?  B&H had a used one and I spent my
    > year's equipment budget to order it.  It will be here Wednesday.
    >
    > The lens gets outstanding reviews but I wondered about real-life use.  Any
    > complaints I've read have been about the size and weight but it weighs 4
    > pounds which is half of what my 280/2.8 weighs.
    >
    > Anybody?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Tina
    >
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