Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stephen Kobrin wrote: > > Following up on the recent discussion of 90mms for an M6, I would appreciate > some advice on a 90mm for my M3. Given current price levels, I am willing > to trade off speed against cost and could go with a F 4.0. There are a > range of 90mm lenses advertised with a very wide variation in prices. I > assume some of those are newer lenses for an M6. What is appropriate for an > M3? Any advice would be appreciated. > > Steve It is not a question of appropriate insinuating that a M3 is inferior to a M6. At this moment there is no 90/4.0 in production for the M6. And if there is it can also just as good be used on a M3. The latest 90/4.0 was produced till 1968. The question is: what do you want and what can you afford. My father in law uses a first design 90/4.0 and this is a beautifull portrait lens which costs almost nothing. The second and especially the third design are much better and also shouldn't be that expensive. The diffulculty with advertisement is that they almost never state which version the are offering. The third version in mint condition can cost triple the price of a used first version. The nice thing with leica is that an used lens is often just as good as a mint lens but cost much less. These lense are oppurtunitys for the people who really uses a leica and not only collect them. Greetings, michiel.