Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 90/2.8 TE can best be said to have significant sample variation. Some are troubled with flare, some with fogging while others are the darlings of their owners. Mine was prone to flare and I was delighted with its replacement, the current 90/2.8 Elmarit-M. YMMV but please test any T-E carefully and always make sure you can return it if need be. John Collier On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 03:57 AM, Christer Almqvist wrote: > Jim, > > I fully agree with you. My in depth personal experience is with > Tele-Elmarit and 90mm AA Summicron, both of which I have owned and > used extensively. The Summicron is no doubt an exceptionally good > lens, but it is also large, heavy, expensive and with a very limited > depth of field at 2.0 And, not the least, I also found people being > more at ease being photographed when I had the small Tele-Elmarit on > my M than they were when I used the big gun, the AA. > > To me the disadvantages of the 90mm AA outweigh the advantages. Go for > Tele-Elmarit. Will get equally good pictures, if not better, in 99% of > the cases. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html