Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]IMHO- The 90/f2 Summicron, old version, in fact mine was originally a two cam model, is a perfectly wonderful lens. Excellent performance on all counts of sharpness, color and 'bokeh'. I am tone deaf, so I can get by with less than the best music system, but even with a sharp eye... to me it is hard to see the differences in image quality of most Leitz lenses unless you have the images side by side and have a loupe- hardly the way I look at photos normally. If the new aspheric is superior, so be it. I for one am happy with the older version. Then again, I am discovering the beauty of LTM Leicas and the old lenses that made Leica famous to begin with! The upside for us old fogies is that the rush for the newest lens will make the older versions available to a greater number of users! I look forward to seeing what some of the 'newbies' make of the opportunity! Dan dwpost@msn.com