Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all, I am puzzled and a little frustrated: after hesitating over 15 years, I purchased my first M system in the first days of January, 48 hrs before t= he first posts appeared on the Net announcing the 0.85. I must have accumulated dozens of hours through these years talking with users, reading literature and, for the last 3 years, following threads in Cserve= forums, on Usenet and on various mailing lists (only discovered LUG end o= f last December). My MAIN question had always been: are the medium teles of= the M system really reliably focused with the rangefinder system of the M= 6 ? The unanimous answer from M enthusiasts had invariably been: "no proble= m, the RF is absolutely precise up to 135mm, better than SLR". Then all of a= sudden, since the first week of January, the common opinion of the M user= community seems to have become : "the 0.85 is what we all have been waiti= ng for, at last we will be able to use fast teles or the Noctilux at heir widest". As a new user, I have field tested the 90mm f2.8 wide open in portrait situations as much as I could in the last 3 weeks, and have not encountered any more focus failures as I usually have with SLR systems. I= should therefore feel quite happy. But I also planned to purchase the 75m= m f1.4 in the medium term. So the question is, and please answer real hones= t (money is an issue for me): will I have problems using that lens at its widest in portrait situations ? Or does this usage suppose using the 0.85= (or M3) ? Thanks beforehand for being real factual about this...