RE: [Leica] tele-elmarit 90

[Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>]

If I didn't already own the APO 90, I'd use the T-E all the time.  But I do
own the APO, and  find it not that much larger or heavier than the T-E to
the point where the older lens will never see any use from now on.

Dan C.

At 11:16 AM 21-03-00 -0500, Buzz Hausner wrote:
>Where would you use it?  Anywhere you want the smallest, most discrete kit
>you could carry!  Anywhere you want to mount a REAL lens shade, the
>formidable 12575.  Anywhere you are more likely to take pictures through a
>$400 investment than a...what?...investment of two grand.  Do you have
>heirs?  I have two, they can each fight over the nineties (and thirty-fives)
>and both win.
>
>	Buzz
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Cardish [mailto:dcardish@microtec.net]
>Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 6:57 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: RE: [Leica] tele-elmarit 90
>
>
>It is no dog!   I've always liked it, no complaints, except maybe for a
>slight propensity for flaring, already noted here..  But I got suckered (by
>me :( ) into buying the new APO 90, and the old TE has become redundant,
>infortunately.  I just can't see where I would use it instead of the newer
>lens.
>
>Dan C.
>
>At 04:34 PM 20-03-00 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote:
>>So we wait to pass the word until you have found a resting place for your
>>dog! ;-)
>
>