Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why is the Elmar 90/4 so inexpensive used? Was this lens an unimpressive performer? Can anyone compare it directly to the Jupiter 85/2? On the Kiev page (http://users.aol.com/kievrpt/35rf.htm), all these ex-Soviet LTM lenses show up with surprisingly low resolution numbers in line pairs/mm, yet I hear great things about them. Were the old Elmars sharper than the new Jupiters at equivalent apertures? (Those who know me as an inveterate Leica R user may be surprised by this question about a rangefinder lens, but today my wife surprised me by giving me an M2 as an early Christmas gift. I'd been mooning over this camera ever since first handling it a few weeks ago. I had been shopping for a cheap thread-mount rangefinder, but the film advance just felt so wonderful... the finder was so clear and bright... well, I just got it bad. Happily my wife, sweetheart that she is, took pity on me.)