Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very clean, lucid Stanford pics. As B.D. pointed out, long lenses with an RF are perhaps the wrong medium. I am hoping that enough people have decided the same and are selling their 75 or 90 on ebay because they don't use it enough. So, if you had to have only one, it would be the 75? Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:54 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] 75-90mm lenses - Opinions Jeff, I have a 90/2 AA for 2-3 years and the 75/1.4 for about 4 months. I love both of them. The 75/1.4 is big but balance really well. I like the focus throw too - not too long and not too short. Most of my shots are 50 or the 75, and occasionally 15. All the ones in the last batch http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/050806/ Stanford Pics are taken with the 75. The 90/2 is stunning of course, and I use it when I think the 75 is too short. At 05:47 PM 5/8/2006, you wrote: >I have every conceivable possible lens between 15mm and 50mm (with a >lot of weight skewed toward the 50mm end). However, I have only two >lenses past 50...a 90/2.8 Hexanon (which is "very good") and a 75/2.5 >Heliar (which is "very good"). I would like to have something excellent >longer than 50. It's a length I don't use enough. Since Zeiss Ikon >apparently stopped dead in their tracks at 50, I pretty much have the >following choices in Leica glass: > >75/1.4 >90/4 >90/2.8 >90/2 > >Of course, the faster the glass, the more expensive it is. I doubt that >I will be shooting smoky, dimly-lit pubs with this. So speed is not >that much of an object. Does one of these stand out among the others? >If the fast glass is the glass with hair-raising quality, I will >consider [choke!] the cost as secondary. > >BTW, 90mm seems to be the length LEAST used by LUGers, at least in PAW >postings. It isn't THAT long...... > >Jeffery Smith >New Orleans, LA >http://www.400tx.com > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com) _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information