Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Congratulations on your new arrival. I used my 90 AA this weekend with four rolls of Provia 100F. The image quality is stunning, and at 10x8 it can he hard to tell the difference between the 90 image and an MF print. Simon Mark Rabiner wrote: > Just got my new Apo-Summicron-M 90 ASPH from ups from Keyser and Soze in San > Francisco!:) at 8:45 this morning. > http://www.kandsphoto.com/activepages/main.html > I ordered it Friday, None here at Camera World where i like to avoid stress and > buy over the counter. > Now i have to take pictures with the damn thing! > It's so bright and clear when i look thought the view finder!!. > a different beast than my 90 Elmarit. > The Apo-Summicron less of a "Let's go out and take a long photo walk!" kinda lens. > I took the grip off the body so it would be the same as my other body with the > Elmarit on it. > It definitely turns you camera into a different kind of beast. > I put the grip (the Leica grip) right back on again. > This lens is an argument for a grip, glad i got the grip ahead of time! > the Elmarit seems to block about 10 percent of the corner of the 90 frame; the > Apo-Summicron seems to block about 15 percent. I can live with that easily. > I've used my 90 a bunch this week shooting 3 street rolls of Kodachrome 200 and > 2 Kodachrome 64. I got a lot more flare than I'd care to. In the studio as well > with Delta against the white backdrop. > With the Apo-Summicron being a bigger chunk of front glass (55 filter vs 46) > it's not a big candidate for less flair. But I'm expecting it to be anyway. > I'm not expecting too much, just the greatest lens in the history of the known > universe as we know it. > Anything less and I'll surprised and disappointed. > It looks gorgeous on the camera! Makes the Elmarit look too skinny! > This is a real guy thing I guess! > Mark W. Rabiner > :) > > "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the > only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze > > There's nothing that can't be done. > > Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right > off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit but, hey, I'm in a police station. > > from "The Usual Suspects" >