Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Art Searle wrote: > Years ago, in a previous Leica >>experience, I don't remember any problems focusing my 90mm M lens. What >>does LUG have to say? Marc Small replies: > >It sort of depends on the user. I don't have any problems shooting with >135mm lenses, but others do: for that matter, I don't have problems with >focusing or framing with my 4/135 Elmar or Tele-Elmar, but, again, others >do. With a rangefinder, there should be no difference focusing on a given object regardless of which lens is attached - be it a 35, 50, 90 or 135. Granted, I use only my M3. Is the M6 different in some manner? I'm perplexed by the assertion - or implication - that focusing is more difficult with a 135 mm lens than it is with a shorter lens such as a 75 or 90. Do some find more trouble focusing with a 135 than with a 90? How? Granted, the mechanics of a longer lens are different, but in the viewfinder there is the same process happening before one's eye regardless of the lens. Similar to Marc, I have no more problem focusing or framing with my 135 mm Hector than with the shorter lenses. This is one of the beauties of RF. John Servais Bellingham, WA