Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, I agree with you on the weight of the travel kit. Laney recommends a combination of 35 and 90mm lenses. I carry those coupled together using the coupling ring. BTW, be careful when using the coupling ring. It is not deep enough and this may lead to element damage when using lenses such as 28 and 21mm. I used to have the new 90mm, but sold it because of its size. However, I have to admit that its imaging performance was phenomenal. Incidentally, do any of you use the older 90mm Elmarit. I always wanted to have one for use on Bellows II, but could not justify paying the price. I don't understand why there is so much collector demand for this lens. I understand that its performance is not phenomenal. Best of Light, Chris At 01:14 PM 3/2/97 -0500, you wrote: >Dear LugNuts, > >In trying to keep my travel kit to a minimum, I find the tele-elmarit a >great lens due to its exceptionally small size. The current elmarit seems >like a canon next to it. If you stop down to f 5.6, it is quite >accceptable. Having a built-in lens shade is nice, but I find the smaller >size of the tele-elmarit to be to nice to give up. > >Richard Clompus >Pennsylvania, USA > > > >