Re: [Leica] Tele-Elmarits

["Mark Kronquist" <mak@teleport.com>]

Have owned two the scalloped version and the final version found both to be
an ideal combination of size and quality and price

sold both because I needed an extra stop for a trip to Tanzania (90 f2)

miss both ALOT

you will find yourself leaving a heavy lens behind...
- -----Original Message-----
From: Martin Davidson <martin.davidson@bbc.co.uk>
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 8:54 AM
Subject: [Leica] Tele-Elmarits


>Apologies if this has been thrashed to death before.  I am looking to add a
>fourth lens to my M6 (I have the 28 Elmarit, the 35 Asph summicron, and a
50
>summicron).  Having been thrilled by the asph performance of the 35, I was
>saving and waiting (and saving and saving) for the new 90 f/2 asph -- but
am
>worried about its size and weight.  By chance I came across (and rather
fell
>in love with) an old Canadian tele-elmarit -- at around 500 UK pounds
(seems
>the going rate in the UK), half the price (at least) of the new asph, but a
>lot to pay for a lens that (for all I know) may now be regarded as rather
>obsolete.  In short, I am fishing for a few user-experiences of this lens,
>for which I would be very grateful.
>