Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bokeh and lenses
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:13:06 -0500

At 10:48 PM 4/15/98 -0400, you wrote:

>looking at getting an M system.  My most used lenses in 35mm are 50mm
>f1.4, 85mm f1.9, and 135mm f2.5.  Any suggestions as to which lenses
>would do what I want?  Are the new "Aspheric" lenses better or worse in
>this regard?  Are there any older lenses that would be better for this
>(primarly for the 135 and 90)?  Thanks for any info...

The 35 Summilux ASPH is a superior lens. A few people have said they don't
like the bokeh. It's not like the old lenses, but for that I'm glad. Others
aren't.

Any Leica 50mm lens is going to be good, and the current Summilux and
Summicrons are both great lenses. The 75 1.4 is a superb lens. I really
love mine. The 90 Summicron is going to be updated this Summer with an APO
version. I'm sure that will be worth waiting for! And the 135 2.8 is a very
nice lens. I really liked the one I used to own. But the 135 M is not as
ideal to focus with as the SLR lens. Rangefinder focusing is best from 90mm
and shorter.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the
photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him (and her) to keep
on looking.

- -Brooks Atkinson, 1951