Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Voigtlander 90/3.5
From: "Tim Spragens" <info@borderless-photos.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:47:28 +0100

A serious and informative response to a frivolous post. Thanks. I've 
got a good skinny TE for a 90, but find I don't use it much, and 
don't know that I'd use any other 90 more.

Tim

On 23 Feb 2001, at 7:41, Dr H L Lau wrote:

> 
> They do not specify that glasses incorporating lanthanum oxide are
> used for this lens; they only say that glasses of extra-low dispersion
> are used to achieve the "apo" quality. At 260g in weight and shortest
> focusing distance at 1 m, it is a handy lens to use. I didn't actually
> buy one, given the opportunity, because I've already had three Leica
> 90mm lenses in M mount (APO Summicron, Elmarit-M, and collapsible
> Elmar), which makes the addition of this Voigtlander lens superfluous,
> at least on monetary terms.
>