Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >