Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's such a schnozz on the M6, though, that I don't regularly carry it. DT I do do a lot of available darkness stuff, and lust after the 75, which I've only once had an opportunity to play with. But I tend to judge the size and weight of the Leica lenses in comparison to Nikon and Canon lenses of the same F stop and focal length, and that makes even the Leica tanks small by comparison...if you start comparing a 35 Summilux ASPH to a 35 chron pre-ASPH, or even a pre-ASPH Summilux, you'll go nuts...and a 75 Summilux and a tele-elmarit? Hopeless. On the other hand, a 75 1.4 of Leica glass?....Wow.... And to be perfectly honest, I'm happier using my battered old Nikon F and 105 2.5 than I am my 90 Summicron...(For God's sake don't tell Dr. Black Tape!) By the time I get up to that length, I like the magnification of the reflex, and since I'm not making chromes or 106x225 blow-ups, the 105 2.5 Nikor, and 180 2.8 ED are just fine, thank you very much. Would I take an R6.2 and 90 and 180 Leica R lenses if they were given to me? Of course. But I don't think they're going to be, so what was good enough for virtually everyone whose work is preserved in Requium is good enough for me.. B. D.